He actually got sentenced to death but somehow died before he was beheaded.
Henry was definitely fed up with paying taxes to the Pope. This played a big part in why he broke from Rome.
Because the Pope would not recognize Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and marriage to Anne Boleyn.
Henry broke with Rome for a number of reasons: He didn't get on with the Pope. The Pope was refusing him a divorce English Kings had always resented Papal interference ... and, yes, the money to be made from confiscating Church lands was certainly useful.
Henry, like all of europe at the time was a Catholic, it was only when he approached the Pope for a 'divorce' from his first wife Katherine of Aragon and was refused that he broke the English Church away from Rome. However, although Henry had quarrelled with the Pope, he remained Catholic all his life in his religious observances.
Henry VIII broke with Rome and became the head of his own church, the Church of England. He decided to split with Rome because the Pope would not grant him a divorce so that he could marry Anne Boleyn.
Henry 8th broke with Rome using Parliament. This gave him a divorce and he was the new head of England!
Henry the VIII led it and started it when he broke with the Pope.
1. He Broke Away From the Catholic church in Rome 2. He Made him self head of church in England
The Church of England began when King Henry VIII, tired over being controlled by the Pope, broke away from Rome and founded the Church of England in 1534.
He sacked the pope and changed the British religion from Catholic to Protestant. He then appointed a Archbishop of Canterbury. Henry did not sack the pope! [source?] He pointed out that the Council of Nicaea, the major Council in Church history, prohibits the interference of one bishop in another bishop's see without his permission. The pope couldn't renege on Nice without causing immense trouble! It is fundamental to Church Order! As to appointing another Archbishop? Who was that then ? Cranmer received his Scarf from Rome! By the way, Henry at no time broke from Rome, neither did England, the break came from the other side!
King Henry VIII Henry the VIII, because the Pope wouldn't annul his first marriage.
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