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FALSE!
James I of England was Protestant not Catholic.
Protestant
James II had two Protestant daughters Queen Mary II and Queen Anne.
James was educated as a Protestant, but he never accepted the Presbyterian theories of church government propounded by his tutors.
James I (1566-1625, known as King James VI of Scotland) was a protestant. James practiced a presbyterian type of Puritanism, as this was the religion of Scotland. When he became King of England as well (July 25, 1603), he adopted a more Anglican Protestant form. This divided the Scots after his death. Initially James Ist, was brought up a Calvinist in the Presbyterian Church in Scotland! Later on he assumed the throne in England and converted to the English Church, describing himself as a Catholic, but refusing to acknowledge the papacy and subscribing to the Seven Councils.
William and Mary were invited to England to help overthrow the King James II. They accepted because they were both protestant and the people of England wanted a protestant monarch rather than the Catholic monarch they would have if James II's son and Mary's younger brother grew up and took the throne. William and Mary also wanted to rule England as protestant monarchs.
The King and Parliament in particular were making it clear to non-conforming Catholics that a return of the Roman Catholic Church to England as the state religion was never going to be a possibility. The plot to kill James was as much about him as it was about Parliament which if it had blown up would have killed the kings relatives, the Privy Counsel, the Protestant Aristocracy, all the Bishops of the Church of England and judges of the legal system. In total the whole of the Protestant State. The plotters intended to install the Kings daughter as a puppet Queen and return the Church to Rome.
He was Ambassader to the Court of St. James, the only Irish American to a post in Protestant England.
King James I of England was succeeded by his second son, King Charles I.
William the Third (William of Orange), and his wife Mary the Second, daughter of James the Second.
James the 2nd