Was Henry 8th excommunicated

Answer 1

King Henry the 8th wanted to divorce his wife. So being king and all he decided to start his own church so he could change the rules. The was the beginning of the Episcopalian church. In our Nicene creed we even say, "According to the Holy Roman Catholic Church" even though we are an Anglican church. Yes, he succeeded in separating himself with Catherine(I believe it was Catherine he was married so many times). Pun on separated, she was beheaded. It seemed to be the trend of the day.

The above is incorrect on an extremely important point:

Catherine of Aragon, Henry's first wife, was not beheaded, or even executed. Catherine was Henry's brother's widow and was married to Henry from 1509 until 1533. During that time, she gave birth to six children. But, only Mary survived. Knowing that Catherine was getting too old to provide him with the son he so desperately wanted, Henry wanted to move on to the younger Anne Boleyn. When the pope refused to annul his marriage to Catherine, Henry made laws separating England from Rome and legalizing his divorce from Catherine and marriage to Anne. Catherine spent the rest of isolated and exiled, and died in 1536. Henry's second wife, however, was beheaded. After giving birth to Henry's second daughter, she was accused of witchcraft, treason and adultery.