Did King Henry VIII create the Church of England?
Yes. Here is the information from http://www.royal.gov/uk/output/Page19.as… “The second half of Henry’s reign was dominated by two issues very important for the later history of England and the monarchy: the succession and the Protestant Reformation, which led to the formation of the Church of England. Henry had married his brother’s widow, Catherine of Aragon, in 1509. Catherine had produced only one surviving child – a girl, Princess Mary, born in 1516. By the end of the 1520s, Henry’s wife was in her forties and he was desperate for a son. The Tudor dynasty had been established by conquest in 1485 and Henry was only its second monarch. England had not so far had a ruling queen, and the dynasty was not secure enough to run the risk of handing the Crown on to a woman, risking disputed succession or domination of a foreign power through marriage. Henry had anyway fallen in love with Anne Boleyn, the sister of one of
Yes and no, depending on how you look at it. Henry VIII broke away from the Pope and made some modifications to the services. These only lasted during his life and the life of his only legit son. Mary reestablished the Pope’s church. Elizabeth established a Protestant church that was closer to Lutheran than her father’s church or the current church. During the next 100 years, the English church went through several revolutions. Only with the Stuart restoration did the Church of England become more or less what it is today, a liberal Calvinist doctrine with Catholic mass, bishops, and priestly vestments.
