When King Henry VIII promulgated the Act of Supremacy in 1534, he made himself by fiat the “sole and supreme head of the Church of England.” This is precisely how the Church of England was created — ...

King Henry VIII would lose his head if he were alive ... let alone the late queen’s unshakeable devotion to the Anglican church,” Hardman, 59, writes of William in “The Making of a King ...

Henry VIII, who founded the Church of England along with the professorship, intended it for Anglican churchmen to teach Hebrew in the Anglican tradition. That idea lasted until recently.

Henry, the second son of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, was born on 28 June 1491 at Greenwich Palace. After the death of his elder brother Arthur in 1502, Henry became heir to the English ...

Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury and head of the Anglican Communion ... of England broke away from the Catholic Church under King Henry VIII, who in 1527, desiring a male heir, wanted ...

Raphaëlle Goyeau receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of a Collaborative Doctoral Partnership between the University of East Anglia and the British Library.

Josephine Hart article on millennium's best sex scandal cites English King Henry VIII's passion for Anne Boleyn, which led to his formation of Church of England; photos (M) ...