When did England become protestant?

Answer 1

The main reason was that he wanted to take power from the catholic church due to the pope denying him a divorce from Catherine of Aragon Also the looting of churches and monasteries helped bolster the royal coffers Interestingly if you look at protestant nations as opposed to Catholic nations the former have been the more prosperous since the reformation so it was probably the right decision but made for far more personal reasons

Answer 2

The king wanted a divorce. The mother church in Rome would not grant it. The king did not agree with this, broke away to begin what became the Church of England, a state Church, as was the Roman Church

Anglican Catholic Answer!

Protestantism only became established after a brutal War of religion in 1646 and it lasted till 1660 when the Anglican Church was brought back by demand!

The Church in England was the distillation of some 1500 hundred years of catholicity in England! it was never anything but Catholic. Further, Rome was not the mother church! Where Christianity came from was always thought to be from the East! In that Dorotheus , Archbishop of Tyre in 303 Ad, wrote that S. Simon Zelotes, the Brother of Christ was responsible for bringing the faith in to this country. Many people thought it was brought by the agency of S. Joseph of Arimathea? Queen Elizabeth laughed at her apostate bishops when they put forward the idea of Rome's authority pointing out they wouldn't have said that to her father and that S.Joseph was thought the traditional source.

Anywhere but Rome! as for the Church in England breaking away from Rome?

They simply pointed out that one bishop had no authority in another bishop's see!

Rome was going against the canons of three Ecumenical Councils, the Ancient Church in its fullness by doing so.

Answer 3

Because it's king didn't want to be "under" the pope and do what he said. It was mainly because of politics, not of religon. Because the King of England wanted to divorce and kill his wives. Both actions the Catholic Church told him he should not do.

Answer 4

In the reign of Elizabeth the first , she was a protestant and wanted everybody to be protestant instead of roman catholic like the queen before her , her half sister Mary was

Anglican Catholic Answer!

If Eliza is to be believed she was a Catholic, and rejected fully all Calvinist attempts to weaken the catholicity of the C.of E..

The Church in England didn't become more protestant, it was always the Body of Christ in England and no more, indeed in 1564 she refused to sign up to the Sectarian demands of the Council of Trent and preserved her apostolical faith and orders!

Answer 5

Henry VIII never became 'Protestant' - despite his quarrel with the Pope and his removal of the English Church from Rome's jurisdiction, he remained a devout Catholic all his life.

Answer 6

Because the King of England wanted to divorce and kill his wives. Both actions the Catholic Church told him he should not do.

Answer 7

king Henry got read of the catholic church and he became protestant so everyone else had to

Answer 8

Henry VIII wanted his own way. Henry VIII wanted to be able to discard unusable women. Henry VIII didn't want other people telling him what he could do and especially what he couldn't.