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Roman Catholic Answer:To the best of my knowledge, the only country in Europe which broke away, as a Country, from the Catholic church, was England. I believe that Spain is still nominally Roman Catholic.
Henry VIII.
The leader who expelled the Catholic Church from his country and made it Protestant was King Henry VIII of England. In the 1530s, he initiated the English Reformation, primarily driven by his desire to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. This led to the break with the Roman Catholic Church and the establishment of the Church of England, which recognized the king as its supreme head. Consequently, England transitioned to Protestantism, significantly altering its religious landscape.
No king has ever replaced a pope as head of the Catholic Church. Henry VIII did break from the Catholic Church and formed what is the Church of England but which is not a Catholic Church as it is not in union with Rome.
The Church of England did not break away from the Eastern Orthodox Church, it broke from the Roman Catholic Church in 1534.
During the founding of Jamestown in 1607, England was not a Catholic country; it had established itself as a Protestant nation following the English Reformation. King Henry VIII's break from the Catholic Church in the 16th century led to the establishment of the Church of England, which became the dominant faith. This Protestant influence shaped the early governance and social structures of the Jamestown settlement.
England was the first European nation to break away from Roman Catholic Church. King Henry VIII established the Church of England in protest.
He took over the church the new church was called the Church of England and people didnt like it one bit. Just when did Henry take over a new Church? What was its name and where was its cathedral situated? There was only one Church in England and that was the Catholic Church in England
Henry VIII wanted to break with Rome, but not the Catholic religion. The Church in England, at least during Henry's reign, remained Catholic in theology and liturgy. After the break and until Henry's death, the Protestant religion was still illegal in England.
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.
England's break from the Roman Catholic Church
King Henry VIII separated the English Church from the Catholic Church when the pope refused to grant King Henry a divorce. By forming a separate church, of which he was the head, he could grant himself a divorce.