He created an independent Church of England of which he was the head. Henry needed to free himself from his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, who had not provided him with a male heir. However ...

The English Reformation was foundational in establishing the biblical and Protestant faith in England. At its heart lay both the recovery of the authority of the Bible and religious liberty. The ...

Before the Reformation, most people in England were Catholic. Their lives centred around the ideas and beliefs of the Catholic Church. This meant that, for many people, Henry’s break with Rome ...

The dispute took place during the birth of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. While Henry did not become a Protestant, in ...

It also placed Parliament in a pre-eminent position in relation to the new Church of England. From now on no change in the Church's organisation ... During Edward VI's reign, the Act of Uniformity, ...

Henry VIII's successors all equally used Parliament to pass their own legislation changing the nature, doctrine and authority of the Church in England. The Reformation Parliament thus asserted the ...