He did not divorce any of his wives. His marriage to his 4th wife; Anne of Cleves, was annulled. His marriage to Catherine of Aragon was annulled by Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury. This marriage was annulled after the Pope continued to delay giving Henry an answer to his petition for an annulment of his marriage with Catherine. He then broke from Rome, and created the Church of England.
King Henry VIII Henry the VIII, because the Pope wouldn't annul his first marriage.
King Henry broke away from the Catholic Church because the Catholic Church would not annul his marriage to Katherine of Aragon, so that he could marry Anne Boelyn. That is how the Anglican Church was formed.
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Is this question about Henry the 8th or the 7th? Henry the 8th broke with the Catholic church simply because the Vatican would not allow an annulment of his marriage with Catherine of Aragon.
In the 1530's Henry VIII broke away from the Catholic Church because the Pope would not grant him an annulment from his marriage. He founded an Anglican church, the Church of England, in order to divorce his wife Katherine of Aragon. This act was in direct opposition of the Catholic Church.
Martin Luther.Catholic AnswerI hate to disagree but nobody broke away from the Catholic Church AND thought that Church teachings should be more accessible to the people. People who broke away from the Church did so because they disagree with and couldn't live according to Church teachings, NOT because they thought they should be more accessible. Martin Luther is a prime example of someone who broke away from the Catholic Church precisely BECAUSE he couldn't live with Church teachings and failed to try.
I think Henry broke from the catholic church in 1536 not in 1533; however in any event, Henry broke from the church so that he could innul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn. The Catholic church would not agree that Henry's marriage to Catherine warranted innulement whereas Henry insisted it did because he did not want to be married to Catherine anymore (since she could not produce a male heir) and since Henry wanted to marry Anne Bolelyn. ALSO the grounds that he wanted to divorce Catherine was because she was married to his brother Arthur but Henry married her so that she wasn't a young widow... she claimed that they never consummated the marriage (sex).
England officially broke ties with the Catholic church in 1529 when Henry VIII invoked parliament to enact statutes denying the pope any power or jurisdiction over the Church of England. He did this because of the papacy's refusal to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. This effectively made the Anglican church the national church of England.
King Henry VIII broke with the Catholic Church to create the Church of England because of the different views on divorce.
Martin Luther. He created the Lutheran Church because he felt what the catholic church was doing was wrong.
Henry VIII broke away from the Catholic Church due to his many and manifold marital problems, not to mention his unstable mental health.