The group that wanted to leave the Church of England were the Separatists.
In the early 1600's religious group called the Separatists called for the total break with the church of England. They thought it was too much like the Catholic Church. The pilgrims were a Separatist group. King James attacked them for rejecting England's official church.
Yes. They were the same people. Their religion was Puritan.
The Puritans began to break away from the Church of England in the late 16th century. This process accelerated during the reign of King James I, leading to increased tensions that later culminated in the establishment of the Plymouth Colony in 1620 by Pilgrims seeking religious freedom.
The Church of England did not break away from the Eastern Orthodox Church, it broke from the Roman Catholic Church in 1534.
the puritans wanted to reform the Anglican church
Pilgrims and Puritans were both religious groups that originated from England during the 16th and 17th centuries. Both groups sought religious freedom and believed in strict adherence to Christian principles. However, while Pilgrims were Separatists who wanted to break away from the Church of England, Puritans wanted to purify the Church from within.
Unlike the Pilgrims who felt there could be a change made from within to their mother church, the Puritans believed there could only be one thing to correct the problem - break away from the Anglican or Church of England altogether - which they did.
Another six-letter name for the Pilgrims is "Separat." This term refers to the Separatists, a group of English Protestants who sought to break away from the Church of England and were among those who settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620.
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They left England because they wanted religious freedom, which they did not have in England.