Henry VIII wanted to divorce his wife because he was bored. But the Catholic church considered divorce a sin, so he made his own church the 'Protestants' in which divorce was allowed. He then outlawed Catholicism.
Cause he could not get divorce.
1532
You're thinking of Catherine of Aragon. But that was not the cause of the Church of England, Henry VIII formed the Church of England out of nothing (it was NOT a "split") in order to marry his second wife, Anne Boleyn, as the Church would not grant him an annulment from his marriage to Catherine.
When the Pope refused to let King Henry VIII get a divorce, Henry VIII split the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church.
King Henry VIII separated the Church in England from the control of the Pope, although he initially did not intend to start an entirely separate Protestant faith. By the time of Queen Elizabeth, the split was permanent and the Church of England was a reality.
Because Henry VIII didnt like thomas more and decided to close thy chuch of the catholics
Roman Catholic AnswerThe consequences of the Henry VIII's split with the Church is the Anglican Church and it's hundreds of splinter "churches". The results are generations and thousands of souls who have grown up outside the means of salvation established by Our Blessed Lord, His Church.
The Church of England in and of itself is a Protestant church. It split from the Catholic Church around 1526 under Henry VIII.
oppose Henry VIII
The pope refused to grant Henry an annulment or divorce. Henry VIII then decided to split with the Church and became the head ('pope?') of the Anglican Church and granted himself a divorce.
Henry VIII split up from the pope to divorce his first wife Catherine of Aragon. At first Henry did ask the pope for the divorce but the pope refused. Henry decided to break away from the pope and name himself as the head of the Church of England so he didn't need permission to divorce Catherine
King Henry VIII of England, who split with Rome to found the Church of England.