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Henry VIII and the Church of England

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INTRODUCTION Henry VIII King is an important person in helping to start religious reform in the UK, but this is not his intention. His changing ideas about his decision with the Pope and how the New England Church works will make Protestants a popular foothold in their Europe. His intention was completely politically motivated, but he began to change how the layman thinks about the church and how it should work. The life of Henry VIII Henry VIII was born on June 28, 1491 with King Henry VII of England and Queen Elizabeth of York.

In the history of the Catholic church in England and Wales, when the King of Henry VIII established the English church, he mainly resorts to foreign entities (the pope) to cancel his marriage and seek unification in a sovereign state There was a need. Source of secular and religious power (initially there was no substantial change in doctrine). In the history of the Japanese Catholic Church, when the Christian missionaries arrived in Japan in the 1540's, they first prospered, but Emperor Ogi-machi announced the prohibition of Catholicism in 1565 and 1568. In 1587, King Empire regent Wang Toyotomi Hideyoshi banned Jesuit missionaries, Christianity was suppressed as a threat to the citizens' unity. After the Tokugawa shogunate prohibited Christianity in 1620, it no longer existed publicly. After the Meiji Restoration, Christianity was rebuilt in Japan.

In England, King Henry VIII started the British National Church. He wants to divorce his first wife, but the Pope does not allow it. Initially, the church of the King Henry VIII of England church was very similar to the Catholic church. The main difference is that the king is not a pope but a church leader. Later, under the rule of my son Edward VI, the British National Church became more reformed or Protestant. Anglicans and several other Protestant denominations still believe that they are Catholics after reform. Puritan appeared among Anglicans who believed that the reform was not enough