What is your understanding of the protestant reformation?
Do you see the leading of God?
Has this history been forgotten? Is it being forgotten on purpose?
For over a thousand years since the fall of the Roman Empire, Christianity had been the Roman Catholic's intellectual property. Everything changed during the black plague, Vatican's power was greatly weakened afterward, its authority was challenged, and there came the Protestant reformation. The protest was not against any theology, but corruption - the selling of indulgence, basically not much different from selling livestocks and exchanging currencies in the Temple, if not worse. The Protestant reformation broke RCC's monopoly. From there on, everyone was granted access to read and teach God's word.
Also, according to some interpretation of the seven churches in Rev. 2-3, those seven churches represent seven successive historic periods, of which the reign of RCC in Europe was the Thyatira church, reformation movement was Sardis the Dead Church, then the colonial period was the Philadelphia Church, from Woodrow Willson till the second coming, though, is the Laodicea Church, the last period we're living in.