The last colloquy on an imperial level in the 16th century was held in Worms from Sep 11 to Oct 8, 1557. At the Diet of Augsburg in 1555 it had been agreed that the dialogue on controversial religious issues should be continued. A resolution was passed at Regensburg in 1556 and the next colloquy took place in Worms in 1557. The Catholics Michael Helding, John Gropper and Peter Canisius met with the Protestants Philip Melanchthon, Johannes Brenz and Erhard Schnepf. At first they discussed the relation between the Bible and tradition. When Canisius alluded to differences among the Protestants themselves in their doctrine of original sin and justification, which they could not overcome, the meeting was dissolved. While the term itself refers to an engaging discussion or dialogue, in law, a colloquy is a routine, highly formalized conversation between a defendant and a judge. ... // Worms (pronounced ) is a city in the southwest of Germany. ... September 11 is the 254th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (255th in leap years). ... October 8 is the 281st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (282nd in leap years). ... Reading of the Confessio Augustana by Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Augsburg, 1530 The Diet of Augsburg were the meetings of the Reichstag of the Holy Roman Empire in the German city of Augsburg. ... Regensburg (also Ratisbon, Latin Ratisbona) is a city (population 129,175 in 2005) in Bavaria, Germany, located at the confluence of the Danube and Regen rivers, at the northernmost bend in the Danube. ... Petrus Canisius (May 8, 1521 – December 21, 1597) was a Roman Catholic teacher and preacher in Germany, Austria, and Bohemia, fighting against the spread of Protestantism. ... Melancthon, in a portrait engraved by Albrecht Dürer, 1526 Philipp Melanchthon (February 16, 1497 - April 19, 1560) was a German theologian and writer of the Protestant Reformation and an associate of Martin Luther. ... Johann Brenz (1499-1570) was a German church reformer. ...

Also at this Colloquy were Julius von Pflug, Kaspar Schwenkfeld von Ossig, Johannes Pistorius, François Hotman, and Theodore Beza. Julius von Pflug Julius von Pflug (1499, Eythra – 3 September 1564, Zeitz) was from 1542 until his death the last Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Naumburg. ... Kaspar Schwenkfeld von Ossig (also as Caspar Schwenckfeld von Ossig) (1490-1561) was a Silesian nobleman who became a Christian Reformer and spiritualist. ... François Hotman (August 23, 1524 - February 12, 1590), was a French Protestant lawyer and writer. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...