The Anglicans in Great Britain broke with the Catholic Church. Henry VIII had been unable to produce a male heir to the British throne with his wife Catherine of Aragon. He wanted to annul his marriage to her so he could marry another but the pope refuse to annul his original marriage. Henry then broke with Rome and formed the Church of England, naming himself as head of the Church in that country. He then, basically, granted himself a divorce and married a series of other women over the years, none of which produced a male offspring. He was, of course, excommunicated from the Catholic Church. A number of years of Catholic persecutions followed.
The Catholic Church is nearly 2,000 years old, there have been a number of groups of heretics who have left the Church, take your pick from the "Great Heresies":
The Catholic Church is nearly two thousand years old, there have been untold heresies which were religious movement against the Church in that time. A short list of the "Great Heresies":
The Circumcisers (1st century)
Gnosticism (1st and 2nd centuries)
Montanism (late 2nd century)
Savellianism (early 3rd century)
Arianism (4th century)
Pelagianism (5th century)
Semi-Pelagianism (5th century)
Nestorianism (5th century)
Monophysitism (5th century)
Iconoclasm (7th and 8th centuries)
Catharism (11th century)
Protestantism (16th century)
Jansenism (17th century)
The Lutheran Church. it was founded by Martin Luther in the 16th century.
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The first major group to leave the Catholic Church was the Eastern Orthodox Church in 1054. Prior to that there had been some minor sects that split but they, for the most part, did not survive for long.
protestant churches
Roman Catholic AnswerAccording to the teaching of the Catholic Church, no "Churches" broke from the Catholic Church, the name for those left the Catholic Church is heretic, the groups they formed are known as "ecclesial communities". You can not have a "church" without a valid priesthood, such as the Orthodox maintain even when they separated from the Church.from Modern Catholic Dictionary by John A. Hardon, S.J. Doubleday & Co., Inc. Garden City, NY 1980
Apostasy (Apostate) The total rejection by a baptized person of the Christian faith he once professed. The term is also applied ina technical sens to "apostates from religious life," who without authorization leave a religous institute after perpetual vows with no intention of returning.
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Heretic: One who, having been baptized and professing Christianity, pertinaciously rejects or doubts any article of faith determined by the authority of the Catholic Church. An unbaptized person or one who repudiates Christianity is therefore not a heretic, nor in this strict sense are most protestants and other non-Catholic Christians, for, never having professed certain truths of the Faith, they cannot reject or doubt them. In so far as they maintain material heresy they are material heretics but incur no guilty thereby. It can hardly be doubted that the vast majority of non-Catholic Christians are in good faith and laboring under invincible ignorance. It is amusing to note, in this age when many people boast that they are heretics and resent any stigma of orthodoxy, that the Church refuses them both the name and the odium attached to it.
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Schismatic. According to Church law, a schismatic is a person who, after receiving baptism and while keeping the name of Christian, pertinaciously refuses to submit to the Supreme Pontiff or refuses to associate with those who are subject to him. The two factors, submission to the Pope and association with persons subject to him, are to be taken disjunctively. Either resisting papal authority or refusing to participate in Catholic life and worship induces schism, even without further affiliation with another religious body. Like heresy, schism is formal and culpable only when the obligations are fully realized.
The church of Emgland.
The church of England
Yes, they broke with the Anglican Church which had broken away from the Catholic Church.
It became known as Protestantism, leading to the founding of the Church of England.
Henry VIII broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1534, and established the Church of England.
No, The Roman Catholic Church is the original Catholic Church. The Orthodox Church is not a "break-away" church. The only churches that broke away are the "Protestant" Churches. God be with you! If by 'original Catholic' you mean the original church founded by Jesus Christ and His Apostles, then most certainly yes, although there are some common beliefs.
England. Germany was divided after Martin Luther broke away from the Catholic Church, and started a new church, now called the Lutheran church.
When King Henry VIII broke away from the Catholic Church and started the Anglican Church in England, and when Martin Luther broke away from the Catholic Church in Germany. This started the Anglican (Church of England, Episcopalian, Anglo-Catholic, etc.) and Lutheran churches.
Henry VIII did not form the Catholic Church. He actually broke away from the Catholic Church and formed the Church of England in 1534.
Christians did not break away from the Catholic Church, they remained Christians, protestants broke away from the Catholic Church in the 16th century.
The Greek Orthodox Church left the Catholic Church in the eleventh century.
The Anglican Church - officially, the Church of England.
Henry VIII broke away from the Catholic Church due to his many and manifold marital problems, not to mention his unstable mental health.
Henry broke away from the catholic church and established the Church of England with himself as head.