Wolfgang Capito

Wolfgang Fabricius Capito (also Koepfel) (c. 1478 – November 1541) was a German Protestant reformer in the Calvinist tradition.

He attended the famous Latin school in Pforzheim,[1]: 111  where his friend Philip Melanchthon studied.

[1]: 111–112 In 1519, he removed to Mainz at the request of Albrecht, archbishop of that city, who soon made him his chancellor.

He had found it increasingly difficult to reconcile the new religion with the old, and from 1524 was one of the leaders of the reformed faith in Strasbourg.

[3] Capito was always more concerned for the "unity of the spirit" than for dogmatic formularies, and from his endeavours to conciliate the Lutheran and Zwinglian parties in regard to the sacraments, he seems to have incurred the suspicions of his own friends; while from his intimacy with Martin Cellarius and other divines of the Socinian school he drew on himself the charge of Arianism.