Mennonites in general

• The anabaptist movement originated in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1525, headed by a group of collaborators of the reformer Zwingli, who insisted on a church independent of the state.
• These people were disillusioned by the state-church, as it had taken shape since the early middle ages in Europe, and was taken for granted. They longed for a revival of the apostolic church of the first century. Only the Bible was to be the guideline, with no intervention from the state nor from the traditional church hierarchy and its dogmatic authority. These, they sensed, where the first steps toward the creation of a church based on the example of the apostles.