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It was estblished by King Henry VIII because the Pope would not grant Him a divorce.
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The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England, the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion (except the Scottish Episcopal Church which has separate orig...
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King Henry VIII. One of the reasons was because the Catholic church would not approve of his divorce wishes, so it was partly his way of solving the problem!
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In the early 1600s, many English men and women began to question some of the teachings of the Church of England that had been founded by Henry VIII in the previous century. Some of these individuals remained members of the church but tried to "purify" it from within, and were called "Puritans".
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1529 Henry VIII founded Church of England after break with Rome; Reformation effective in England and Wales, but not in Ireland. 1536 43 Acts of Union united Wales with England, with one law, one parliament, and one official language.
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Anglican organization: a voluntary organization founded by the Church of England in the 19th century to help parish priests evangelize in the United Kingdom;
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The founder of the Church of England was Henry VIII, who broke with the Roman Catholic Church when the pope refused to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. Henry aimed merely to supplant the pope as the head of the English church—not to remodel it along the lines approved by Protestant reformers.
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The Church of England: a Christian presence in every community. ... The Church of England: a Christian presence in every community. Facts about the Church of England ... The Church of England logo...
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