Leipzig Interim

The Leipzig Interim was a temporary doctrinal agreement created in December 1548 by Protestant leaders in response to the Augsburg Interim. The Augsburg Interim, proclaimed in May 1548 at the insistence of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, was a doctrinal agreement between German Catholics and Protestants that largely reflected Catholic viewpoints. It did, however, permit clerical marriage and communion in both kinds for the laity.

Several Protestant electors objected to the Augsburg Interim's Catholic emphasis and refused to comply. The Leipzig Interim was adopted to uphold Protestant doctrines, but neither interim was fully accepted, and a lasting religious settlement in Germany was not achieved until the Peace of Augsburg in 1555.1