Jump Starting the French Reformation

From the start, the need to find qualified men to serve as pastors of these churches was acute. Calvin and the Company of Pastors in Geneva worked tirelessly to recruit, train, and send pastoral leaders to France, dispatching no fewer than two hundred ministers to the kingdom during this period.

 

Scott Manetsch, "Theodore Beza (1519-1605) and the Crisis of Reformed Protestantism in France", in Martin Klauber, ed., The Theology of the French Reformed Churches: From Henry IV to the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 2014), 34