What did King Charles 1 change in the church?

Answer 1

He added:

• Organs,
• singing hymns,
• wall hangings,
• extravagant stained glass windows,
• and made the priests wear bright clothes while they preached.

Answer 2

Charles 1 was the Head of the Protestant Church of England and persecuted most religious groups that would not swear allegiance to the Church of England. He was Defender of the Faith, a loyal Anglican but Head of the Church, which was a problem for anyone who believed Christ was head not the King!

Answer 3

Clarendon, or Hyde, Charles's friend and servant tells us that Charles was a very moral man who worshipped God according to the Catholic rites of the Church of England. He attended both Mattins and Evensong according to the Prayer Book when possible and received Communion according to the ancient ways. He also attended Confession with an Anglican priest! He believed the Church was the Catholic Church in England and that he, as King and Supreme Governor, had a job to defend this Church from God's enemies and all heresies. This he did by not interfering with theological questions as such, but by leaving the government of the Church to the Bishops in Convocation and giving them his support.

It was Charles's support for the Church in England that caused his downfall.! In 1640 he came to an arrangement with his parliament that should have continued the peace and tranquility of the previous eleven years of his rule! In these years the country had become a paradise, they were known as the years of the Anglican Ascendency. There was peace and justice, there was no involvement in the 30 yrs War and the poor were fed at a time of rampaging inflation. There was a canker in the rose! Parliament being under control of separatists and Calvinists wished to take over the ancient church and rebuild it on a Presbyterian System destroying the traditional Anglican,'Catholic,' Church. Anyone who opposed them was silenced by a spell in prison, gangs of young thugs roamed London and a Bishop was kicked to death outside the Lords. [He died of his kicking and beating!] The Bishops were arrested, the Archbishop later was executed by a vote of the protestants in Parliament.[Attainder.] It turned in to Civil War with the King being forced out of London when he thought the Calvinists were about to arrest Queen Mary! Parliament banned the ancient Prayer Book, Anglican Catholics priests were expelled from their churches and at least one was hanged from the Sanctuary Roof, while according to Walker, "Suffering of the Clergy.' others were shipped to a spell of indentured slavery in the Indies! By 1646 the protestants had won after a series of massacres and the Church in England was abolished and the Anglican Churches given over to Calvinist and other protestant groups! The trouble was the King wouldn't abandon the Church and sign the Bill abolishing it. In 1648 when Charles was a prisoner the protestants called a peace treaty and Charles was asked formally to sign away the rights of the Anglican,'Catholic,'Church and warned that this was his last chance.

If he signed, he would get his palaces and his money back. His wife and Children would be safe and he would be just as he was 10years earlier. The only difference being their would be no Church, only a Presbyterian sect! He refused and some four months later he was executed on the 30th, Jan.1648/9.

10 years later the Church was restored, not by force, but by the refusal of the people of England to participate in the Calvinist follies of the protestants. In may 1662 the Anglican Convocation canonised Charles the First as a Saint. The First to be canonised since the Reformation! S.Charles The Martyr

Answer 4

1)Charles hired a man named William Laud to change the English church, because he believed in Catholicism.

2)Charles I made rituals and ceremonies more important. Charles also gave more value to the role of the preiest.

3)Charles made the church more uniform in what it taught. Charles also decorated and refurbish the church again, with stained glass windows and fabrics .

4)Charles did not believe in predestination and wanted to get rid of this idea with the Church. Laud and Charles stressed that God was available to all and that your belief in God and following the rules of Christianity will get you to Heaven.

5)Changed the English bible to include more Catholic ideas

6)Charles enjoyed the ‘Beauty of Holiness’ this was about making the Church more decorated and pretty. He brought back stained glass windows and elaborate fabrics with beautiful designs were put back into the churches across England.

Answer 5

yes he did. He was accompanied by Archbishop Laud (who was appointed Archbishop in 1633).

Answer 6

He changed the church by putting candles,crosses and stained glass windows up. He also moved the communion table west.