How is Henry VIII important in regards to splitting from the Church of Rome?

The 1530's witnessed Henry's growing involvement in government, and a series of events which greatly altered England, as well as the whole of Western Christendom: the separation of the Church of England from Roman Catholicism. The separation was actually a by-product of Henry's obsession with producing a male heir; Catherine of Aragon failed to produce a male and the need to maintain dynastic legitimacy forced Henry to seek an annulment from the pope in order to marry Anne Boleyn. Wolsey tried repeatedly to secure a legal annulment from Pope Clement VII, but Clement was beholden to the Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and nephew of Catherine. Henry summoned the Reformation Parliament in 1529, which passed 137 statutes in seven years and exercised an influence in political and ecclesiastic affairs which was unknown to feudal parliaments. Religious reform movements had already taken hold in England, but on a small scale: the Lollards had been in existence since the mid-fourteenth century and the ideas of Luther and Zwingli circulated within intellectual groups, but continental Protestantism had yet to find favor with the English people. The break from Rome was accomplished through law, not social outcry; Henry, as Supreme Head of the Church of England, acknowledged this by slight alterations in worship ritual instead of a wholesale reworking of religious dogma. England moved into an era of ';conformity of mind'; with the new royal supremacy (much akin to the absolutism of France's Louis XIV): by 1536, all ecclesiastical and government officials were required to publicly approve of the break with Rome and take an oath of loyalty. The king moved away from the medieval idea of ruler as chief lawmaker and overseer of civil behavior, to the modern idea of ruler as the ideological icon of the state.





I would say it was the Catholic Church as a whole rather than the Church of Rome





CheersHow is Henry VIII important in regards to splitting from the Church of Rome?
King Henry VIII came to the throne of England in 1509 after the deaths of his father and brother. His first act as king was to marry his brother鈥檚 widow 鈥?Catherine of Aragorn 鈥?despite the protests of Pope Julies II and the Archbishop Warham. He hoped that she would soon give him the son that would be his heir - and who would establish (and carry on) the Tudor dynasty.


However the only child the queen ever bore him was a daughter 鈥?Mary Tudor (1516). After years of waiting and hoping for a son Henry VIII became fed up. He filed for divorce from Catherine 鈥?planning to wed instead her young Lady-in-waiting Anne Boleyn.


But the Catholic Church refused to grant him a divorce 鈥?this put the King in a very awkward position. If he continued with his marriage to Catherine there would be no son to inherit the throne, but if he went ahead and divorced Catherin simply because he was king the Church would excommunicate him. So he devised a fairly simple solution:


Establish his own church.


He established the Protestant Church, thus successfully severing all of his ties to the Catholic Church.





(from my Grade 10 history Power Point project on Puritans)How is Henry VIII important in regards to splitting from the Church of Rome?
Henry wanted to divorce his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, so that he could marry Anne Boleyn. However, under Catholic law he could not divorce. Thus, Henry broke away from the Church of Rome and formed the Anglican Church, under whose laws he could divorce and remarry.








Look up Henry VIII on Wikipedia for more info.
It's been a couple years since I did my term paper on him..but if I remember correctly, Henry VIII wanted a divorce(he had had like 6 wivesbefore ), but the Pope wouldn't allow the divorce. So instead of fighting it, he simply split from the church and went to the Church of England. It's really easy to find info on him; if you need more, just type his name in on google.


Hope that helps=)
In 1534 he hoped to divorce his wife, Catherine of Aragon, of Spain. The catholic church said no, so he started his own Church, of which he was the head. this is the Anglican church, the Church of England, or in America, the Episcopal church. Is this supposed to be your homework?
He had to divorce his first wife in order to marry Ann Boleyn, and the Church wouldn't grant the divorce. He ended up creating the church of England. Look up the Protestant Reformation.





this link sums it up nicely





http://wsu.edu/~dee/REFORM/ENGLAND.HTM
he used his magical power to trun the church into a dog
Because it was actually his decision to do it. So... pretty important.
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Didn't he want a divorce from one of his wives? Look it up.
sorry i don't know!!





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