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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

are part of the Anglican Communion, which broke away from the Catholic Church in 1534 amid King Henry VIII’s frustration that he could not receive an annulment for his marriage. The Catholic ...

Sometimes just one person changes things, like Henry VIII. When Henry was 18, he became King of England ... in England belonged to the Catholic Church run by the Pope who lived in Rome.