Before the Protestant reformation and the invention of printing press, almost every church was what language?

Answer 1

"churches" weren't any language...but the Catholic church conducted mass in Latin until quite recently. In the middle ages in Europe, Latin was considered the language that educated people used -- and it was a sort of "universal" (in Europe, anyway) language, making things readable in wide areas without the need to translate them into every little local language and dialect.

Answer 2

Latin. After the Lutheran reformation (initiated in 1517) The German churches moved to using the 'vernacular' (German - the language of the people). The protestants believed that it was important for all the congregation to understand what was being said, rather than it being in a Latin - which nobody understood, apart from the priest and nobility.

Answer 3

Latin. This eventually turned into a bad thing because common people couldn't read the Latin Bible so they had to take the priest's word that what he was reading was really in the Bible. The priests soon started to abuse this and take money for themselves when they said it was going to the church. This is where the Catholic church first became corrupt.

Answer 4

In the West, the Church used Latin. In the East, it primarily used Greek, although there was much more use of the vernacualr. There are still Eastern Churches where Syriac and other ancient tongues are used in the liturgy.

Answer 5

That would be Latin. Everyone had their cultural lanuage and some translated Bibles into commoner lanauge before the reformation, but it was not as wide spread until way after.

Answer 6

Latin i believe. You can still find many churches who have latin masses today.

Answer 7

Yes, latin! My mom remembers of masses in latin.

Answer 8

Latin if I remember correctly.

Answer 9

have you never read a history book? latin

Answer 10

I believe it was in Aramaic