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Does the history of the Anglican church trace back to the apostles?
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Nobody can say exactly when Christianity was first introduced into the British Isles. One legend is that St. Joseph of Arimathea and a band of Christians come to England in the first century. Another tradition says that some of the Apostles ( bishops), notably St. Paul, introduced Christianity to Britain in the first century. Another story says that in the second century a British King wrote to the bishop of Rome (the pope) asking for Christian missionaries.
The first historical record of the English church is in 314, when British bishops were recorded among those in attendance at the Council of Arles in France.
Anglicans held to the same primitive Christianity practiced all over the world and, being isolated from the mainland and its debates, did not develop in sync with Rome, but, rather, tried to uphold the faith of the early undivided church.
Later on, the English church voted to come under the Roman see, after missionaries from Rome established new churches who's customs were different from those planted earlier. The major points of disagreement at the time were how a monk's haircut should be done and the date Easter should be celebrated.
Eventually, papal taxes, which took more than the civil government exasperated the English people, so that parliament passed laws curtailing papal taxes and authority and calling on the king to relieve them from papal taxes. The final split occurred when the pope, now incarcerated by a relative of the Queen of England, procrastinated for seven years about declaring an annulment to the marriage of the King and Queen of England, that he had previously suggested, so as to insure an heir to the English throne. The local archbishop called his own court and granted the annulment. The pope objected, then died six months later. The next pope excommunicated the King and ordered his citizens to what would have been high treason. The local church councils then declared that the pope had no authority in England, and the English parliament declared the king the head of the church in England.
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Was William Bradford Catholic?
William Bradford was a Puritan, a member of the Church of England or Anglican Church. The Anglican Church considers itself "reformed Catholic", not Protestant, in that its clergy trace their ordination back through Catholic succession to the Apostles. It is not, however, Roman Catholic, as it is not under the authority of the Roman Pope. The Puritans were quite intolerant toward Roman Catholics.
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