What was the name of the group who broke away from the catholic church?

Answer 1

The Anglicans in Great Britain broke with the Catholic Church. Henry VIII had been unable to produce a male heir to the British throne with his wife Catherine of Aragon. He wanted to annul his marriage to her so he could marry another but the pope refuse to annul his original marriage. Henry then broke with Rome and formed the Church of England, naming himself as head of the Church in that country. He then, basically, granted himself a divorce and married a series of other women over the years, none of which produced a male offspring. He was, of course, excommunicated from the Catholic Church. A number of years of Catholic persecutions followed.

Answer 2

The Catholic Church is nearly 2,000 years old, there have been a number of groups of heretics who have left the Church, take your pick from the "Great Heresies":

The Catholic Church is nearly two thousand years old, there have been untold heresies which were religious movement against the Church in that time. A short list of the "Great Heresies":

The Circumcisers (1st century)

Gnosticism (1st and 2nd centuries)

Montanism (late 2nd century)

Savellianism (early 3rd century)

Arianism (4th century)

Pelagianism (5th century)

Semi-Pelagianism (5th century)

Nestorianism (5th century)

Monophysitism (5th century)

Iconoclasm (7th and 8th centuries)

Catharism (11th century)

Protestantism (16th century)

Jansenism (17th century)

Answer 3

The Lutheran Church. it was founded by Martin Luther in the 16th century.

Improved answer:

The first major group to leave the Catholic Church was the Eastern Orthodox Church in 1054. Prior to that there had been some minor sects that split but they, for the most part, did not survive for long.

Answer 4

protestant churches

Roman Catholic AnswerAccording to the teaching of the Catholic Church, no "Churches" broke from the Catholic Church, the name for those left the Catholic Church is heretic, the groups they formed are known as "ecclesial communities". You can not have a "church" without a valid priesthood, such as the Orthodox maintain even when they separated from the Church.

Answer 5

Catholic AnswerThat depends on how far they went and what they intended. Those who formed the Orthodox Church were known as Schismatics. Those who left the Church completely while still calling themselves Christians were known as Heretics (protestants), those that left the Church and repudiated Christianity completely are know as Apostates.

from Modern Catholic Dictionary by John A. Hardon, S.J. Doubleday & Co., Inc. Garden City, NY 1980

Apostasy (Apostate) The total rejection by a baptized person of the Christian faith he once professed. The term is also applied ina technical sens to "apostates from religious life," who without authorization leave a religous institute after perpetual vows with no intention of returning.

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Heretic: One who, having been baptized and professing Christianity, pertinaciously rejects or doubts any article of faith determined by the authority of the Catholic Church. An unbaptized person or one who repudiates Christianity is therefore not a heretic, nor in this strict sense are most protestants and other non-Catholic Christians, for, never having professed certain truths of the Faith, they cannot reject or doubt them. In so far as they maintain material heresy they are material heretics but incur no guilty thereby. It can hardly be doubted that the vast majority of non-Catholic Christians are in good faith and laboring under invincible ignorance. It is amusing to note, in this age when many people boast that they are heretics and resent any stigma of orthodoxy, that the Church refuses them both the name and the odium attached to it.

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Schismatic. According to Church law, a schismatic is a person who, after receiving baptism and while keeping the name of Christian, pertinaciously refuses to submit to the Supreme Pontiff or refuses to associate with those who are subject to him. The two factors, submission to the Pope and association with persons subject to him, are to be taken disjunctively. Either resisting papal authority or refusing to participate in Catholic life and worship induces schism, even without further affiliation with another religious body. Like heresy, schism is formal and culpable only when the obligations are fully realized.

Answer 6

The church of Emgland.

Answer 7

The church of England