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It was Protestant. Elizabeth I, who ruled from 1558-1603, the last Tudor Monarch of England was considered illegimate by the Roman Catholic Church, who wanted her cousin, Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots on the Throne of England. She summoned Parliament to consider a Reformation Bill to create a new church in England in 1559. Parliament entered a new Bill, the Act of Supremacy making Elizabeth the head of the "Protestant" Church of England. Thus in 1600, England was a Protestant monarchy, part of the Protestant Reformation.
Clitheroe - UK Parliament constituency - was created in 1559.
Newton - UK Parliament constituency - was created in 1559.
Sudbury - UK Parliament constituency - was created in 1559.
Anglican Catholic Answer?Elizabeth was a Catholic, not a Roman one but an Anglican! She wanted to take her religion back to the state it was in in the latter years of her father and before the Calvinist excesses of her brother Edward.This couldn't be done because of the strength of the protestant party and the support it got from the nobility and gentry who were feared of losing the Monastic and church lands they'd gained! But the queen did what she could to protect her Church, refusing to allow the protestants too much lee way in their attacks on the Anglican Catholics. She told them that religion was not for the likes of them, but was for the Church and Bishops to decide.She abolished the monstrosity of the 2nd, prayer book and made token gestures in the 1559 book. It is thought that she preferred the First Prayer Book, which was the Sarum Mass, translated in to the vernacular! She was helped on her way by the murderous attempts on her life fostered by the papacy! IN parliament [1559] and in Convocation [1572] she allowed the Anglican catholics to affirm the Church's beliefs in the Seven Ecumenical Councils and Holy Tradition, thus placing the Church on the front line of the Catholic Belief of the First Thousand years!
The Act of Supremacy establishing the protestant Church of England.
8 May 1559 (from Wikipedia)
Elizabeth a ProtestantYes, Elizabath was a Protestant. In one of the first meetings of Parliament, Elizabeth sought to restore Protestantism with the 1559 Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity. Her goal was to refrain from the extreme Protestantism as seen during Edward's reign or the rigid Catholicism of Mary's. Elizabeth sought a middle ground, expanding the Church's ideologies to include the majority of her subjects. With the creation of the New Prayer Book, diverse spiritual needs were met. No, Elizabeth I was not a Protestant. Anglican's are not protestant but class themselves as English Catholics part of the universal church, this does not mean they view themselves as in communion with Rome nothing could be further from the truth, but they share more beliefs with the Catholic and Orthodox churches than they do with Protestantism. The Church of England was established to permit the divorce of Henry VIII and Catherine de Aragon and not to establish a protestant church. Elizabeth was more tolerant of different religions than either of her siblings. At that time the protestant churches were Lutheranism and Calvinism who sought originally to reform the corrupted Roman Church (do not think of the catholic church as what you see today, the pope was not a spiritual man, he was effectively a warlord and had been selling offices to the church, selling indulgences, in fact i could continue for hours) the church of England however had no intention of reforming the church and had the Pope granted the innulment of Henry VIII Anglican's would probably still be catholics today.
She became Head (or rather, "Supreme Governor") of the Church of England when the Act of Supremacy became law on May 8th, 1559.
(1534) English act of Parliament that recognized Henry VIII as the "Supreme Head of the Church of England." The act also required an oath of loyalty from English subjects that recognized his marriage to Anne Boleyn. It was repealed in 1555 under Mary I, but in 1559 Parliament adopted a new Act of Supremacy during the reign of Elizabeth I. Source: Answers.com
In 1559 Queen Elizabeth I re-established the Protestant Church in England; so1558-1603.
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