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The last Catholic coronation of a British monarch: 1558-59 Elizabethan Religious Settlement, a compromise which secured Protestant reforms but allowed some Catholic traditions to continue. 1559 Act of Supremacy 1558 confirmed Elizabeth as Head of the Church of England and abolished the authority of the Pope in England. Final break with the ...
The English Reformation took place in 16th-century England when the Church of England broke away first from the authority of the Pope and bishops over the King and then from some doctrines and practices of the Catholic Church.
He still, however, died a Catholic. Officially, the reformation in England began under Edward VI (1547–53) led by Archbishop Thomas Cranmer of Canterbury. Queen Mary (1553–58) persecuted Protestants in an attempt to restore Catholicism to England. Ironically, this only served to enhance Protestant determination.
Henry VIII had broken from the Catholic Church and the authority of the Pope, becoming the supreme head of the Church of England. During Edward's reign, the Church of England adopted a Reformed theology and liturgy. In Mary's reign, these religious policies were reversed, England was re-united with the Catholic Church and Protestantism was ...
Though consequences of the English Reformation were felt in Ireland and Scotland as well, this article only covers those who died in the Kingdom of England. On 25 February 1570, Pope Pius V 's " Regnans in Excelsis " bull excommunicated the English Queen Elizabeth I , and any who obeyed her.
Its rulings set the Counter-Reformation tone of Catholic Church for four centuries until the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965). July 27, 1549: Francis Xavier reaches Japan and goes ashore at Kagoshima, August 15. 1551: First diocese of Brazil is created with a Portuguese appointed bishop reaching Bahia, Brazil, a year later.
Map of the historic counties of England showing the percentage of registered Catholics in the population in 1715–1720 [1]. Recusancy (from Latin: recusare, lit. 'to refuse' [2]) was the state of those who remained loyal to the Catholic Church and refused to attend Church of England services after the English Reformation.
In religion the Church of England could provide a model middle ground, and in his view both Catholics and Protestants would be able to accept churches modeled after it. Richard Hooker (1554–1600) opposed the Puritans' efforts to further reform the Church of England. King James, who saw himself as the Peacemaker of Europe, agreed with Hooker ...