Henry VIII wanted to divorce his wife, but divorce is forbidden for Catholics, so he established the Church of England
Henry did not leave the catholic church. He merely broke away from the control of the Pope in Rome and set himself up as head of the English (catholic) church. He did this so that he could annul his marriage to Katherine of Aragon, which the Pope refused to do, and thus leave him free to marry Ann Boleyn.because he wanted a divorce from his wife for not giving him an heir.
He was a Roman Catholic. He never wanted to leave the Church and did banned the Nazi leadership, who were also mostly Roman Catholic, from leaving the Church.
What caused people to leave the Massachusetts Bay Colony is that church leaders or ministers did not take ideas from their own. Some were forced out of Massachusetts.
They left to find religious freedom. The Church of England was no friendlier to Puritans than were the Catholic regions of Europe. They were widely restricted and persecuted.
.Catholic AnswerMartin Luther was troubled by his own conscience. He could not abide that the Church, and his religious Order were holding him to a moral standard, so he had to leave the Church to indulge himself. There were various things that he complained about the Church, but as he, himself, is hardly credible, they would all be moot. For a complete discussion about Martin Luther's "issues" please see the book below.
King Henry II did not leave the church. He remained Catholic all his life.
Henry left the Roman Catholic Church when the Pope refused to grant him an annulment from one of his marriages.
Henry did not leave the catholic church. He merely broke away from the control of the Pope in Rome and set himself up as head of the English (catholic) church. He did this so that he could annul his marriage to Katherine of Aragon, which the Pope refused to do, and thus leave him free to marry Ann Boleyn.because he wanted a divorce from his wife for not giving him an heir.
Henry did not leave the catholic church. He merely broke away from the control of the Pope in Rome and set himself up as head of the English (catholic) church. He did this so that he could annul his marriage to Katherine of Aragon, which the Pope refused to do, and thus leave him free to marry Ann Boleyn.because he wanted a divorce from his wife for not giving him an heir.
No: he protested how the Catholic Church was at the time...buying indulgences for sin, and the fact that the Catholic church was was very corrupt at the time. He did not reallly want to leave the Catholic Church, but was more or less forced out, because he could not along with a lot of the corruption.
Henry the VIII left the Catholic Church by his own choice, because the Church would not give him an annulment from his first wife to marry Ann Boleyn. He wanted to annul his first marriage in the hope that he could get a son from Ann Boleyn. After he left the Catholic Church, and started the Church of England, with him as the head of the Church, he married Ann Boleyn, but, he never got the son he wanted from her, and she had her beheaded and married again and again in hope of getting a male heir. It would end in failure, and Ann Boleyn's daughter would eventually become Queen of England.
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Yes, they call them bishops, priests, and deacons, after the Catholic Church. When Henry VIII separated from the Holy Father and formed his own personal Church, which he then imposed on the nation, most of the people making his church up were very protestant in their leanings, but, probably to avoid causing an uproar in a Catholic population which did not want to leave the Church, they left externals as much as possible with their heretical beliefs.
From about 2000 - 2010, she was a practicing Catholic. On July 28, 2010, she announced on her Facebook page, she was "quiting Christianity". Anne Rice was baptised, and raised in the Catholic Church until the age of 18, when she chose to leave. In 2000, after a series of personal losses, she returned to the Catholic Church and last month, decided to leave the Catholic Church, and Christianity, altogether.
He was a Roman Catholic. He never wanted to leave the Church and did banned the Nazi leadership, who were also mostly Roman Catholic, from leaving the Church.
He would not leave the Catholic Church to convert to the Church of England