Lots of people broke with the Church over a divorce, are you referring to King Henry VIII? He was seeking an annulment, not a divorce.
King Henry VIII broke with the Catholic Church to create the Church of England because of the different views on divorce.
Henry VIII did not take over the Catholic Church. He split from it and made himself the head of this new Church of England. As he was now the head of his church, he granted himself a divorce.
King Henry was married to Catherine of Aragon. He falls in love with Anne Boleyn and wants to marry her. He asks the pope to grant him a divorce, but the pope refuses because it was against the Catholic Church to get a divorce. After 7 years, Henry declares that the pope had no power over him and the pope excommunicates him. In 1534, Henry has parliament declare him the head of a new church, the Church of England, or the Anglican Church. This was a Protestant Church.
The pope would not grant the annulment to his marriage to Katherine Of Aragon. He wanted to marry Anne Boleyn and have a son to secure the English throne, so he broke away from Rome in order to do so.
Yep because he was catholic and catholics can't get divorced so he started his own religion, the protestants. King Henry was married to Catherine of Aragon. He falls in love with Anne Boleyn and wants to marry her. He asks the pope to grant him a divorce, but the pope refuses because it was against the Catholic Church to get a divorce. After 7 years, Henry declares that the pope had no power over him and the pope excommunicates him. In 1534, Henry has parliament declare him the head of a new church, the Church of England, or the Anglican Church. This was a Protestant Church.
Henry wasn't outside the reformation, but in the middle of it. He BEGAN the reformation when he broke from the Catholic church over his divorce with his wife so he could marry Bolyn .
King Henry VIII
The Anglican Church was and still is the official religion of England led by Queen Elizabeth II and the archbishop of Canturbury. It began in the sixteenth century when King Henry Tudor VIII broke away from the Roman Catholic Church over the issue of divorce. Other names: Church of England, Episcopal Church (America) Tradition: Liturgical; similar to the Roman Catholic Church Other similar denominations: Lutherans, Methodists (left Anglican church in the 18th century.)
Henry used to steal money from the poor and steal properyies so he could pay for his weddings also he shut down the monestaries and the popesReynu Miah
Henry VIII started it. In his fight with the Pope over his divorce of Katherine he cut himself off from the Catholic church and made the Church illegal in England. He began the Church of England and started to take the church properties from the Catholic church and close churches. He had churches destroyed, arrested clergy, and took church property. Thus, the Protestant Reformation was begun under his rein. Anne Boleyn added to it by pushing Henry to keep up his fight with the church and published articles against the church. They were enable to enrich the Crown with the goods and property of the Catholic church.
Roman Catholic AnswerIn England, Henry VIII split from the Catholic Church over the Church not allowing him to divorce his lawfully wedded wife. In Germany the princes in northern Germany used Martin Luther as an excuse to free themselves from Rome.
The Anglicans in Great Britain broke with the Catholic Church. Henry VIII had been unable to produce a male heir to the British throne with his wife Catherine of Aragon. He wanted to annul his marriage to her so he could marry another but the pope refuse to annul his original marriage. Henry then broke with Rome and formed the Church of England, naming himself as head of the Church in that country. He then, basically, granted himself a divorce and married a series of other women over the years, none of which produced a male offspring. He was, of course, excommunicated from the Catholic Church. A number of years of Catholic persecutions followed.