Church of England

The Church off England is the Christian Church established in England. It is l'" Church mère" Communion Anglican, her primacy is the Archevêque of Canterbury, currently Rowan Williams. The supreme Gouverneur of the Church of England is the sovereign of the the United Kingdom as Souverain of England, currently Elisabeth II of the United Kingdom.

History

Preliminaries of the rupture with Rome

At the end of the the Middle Ages, the Church of England hardly seemed to call upheavals as major as in Europe. However, in particular since John Wyclif had denounced the decline of the spiritual power, many were criticisms which circulated on the Church, and more still on the Pape of Rome. In addition, in this country also the Humanisme maintained the idea a reform founded on the Bible. Thus William Tyndale, thereafter disciple of Martin Luther, had it translates into English the New Testament. Its translation will be useful following base of New Testament of the version known as “of king Jacques” or “authorized” (it was calculated that this last version, written in 1611 and always official, contains 80% of the text of Tyndale).

The reform

As of before the Reform, the king of England exerted a dominating influence on the English Church. That explains why, in this country, the Réforme was the fact not of a religious movement resulting from the base or some individualities, but of the sovereigns. The role of Henri VIII was capital here. This prince, in the beginning intended for an ecclesiastical career, had received a theological formation . At the beginning of its reign, it showed wire obeying of the Roman Church. It defended the seven Sacrement S against Martin Luther, which led the pope to confer to him the title of defender of the faith. With its Lord chancellor Thomas More, he was also opposed with strength to the translation of the Bible of William Tyndale.

Rupture with papacy

The reason for rupture with the Papauté was the desire of the king to divorce Catherine d' Aragon to marry Anne Boleyn. The Pape Clément VII refused to cancel the first marriage of the king. In 1531, Henri VIII broke the bonds with the pope, which was the origin of the independence of the Church Anglican.

In 1534, Henri VIII fact of writing the Act of supremacy which makes of the king and his successors “the single and supreme chief of the Church of England”.

In 1539, the Bill or act of the Six Articles organizes the Church Anglican, and in 1562, Elisabeth I {{Re}} made promulgate the confession of faith of the church.

When the Anglicanism became the official religion, the catholics were seriously persecuted in their rights. The Forty martyrs of England and Wales point out these anticatholic persecutions.

The Church Anglican is not regarded Protesting E, but rather as a Catholic church not Roman. However, the pope Leon XIII did not recognize that to him: the encyclical Apostolicae Curae declares that the Church Anglican does not have the apostolic succession nor the legal validity of ordinations.

An important distinction of the Anglicanism compared to the Roman Catholicism is the right which have the clerks (priest S and bishop S) to marry and to have children. In the majority of the churches Anglicans, it is also possible for women to be ordered priests.

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