THE REFORMATION

IN ENGLAND
 Table Of Contents

The break with

01 Henry the 8th 02 Rome and Anne
Boleyn

03 The Book of 04 The effects of the

Common Prayer reformation
01
Henry the 8th
A king that knew what he wanted
Henry VIII's break with Rome during the 1530s
meant momentous changes in the nation's
religious affairs. It also placed Parliament in a
pre-eminent position in relation to the new
Church of England.
 02
The Break with
Rome & Anne
Boleyn
The initial step of severing the English Church's
tie with Rome was achieved through a series of
Acts steered through Parliament between 1533
and 1536 by the King's chief minister, Thomas
Cromwell.

The most important of these, the Act of

Supremacy of 1534, declared the King supreme
head of the English Church in place of the Pope,
who had opposed his divorce from Catherine of
Aragon and remarriage to Anne Boleyn. .
03
The Book of
Common Prayer
During Edward VI's reign, the Act of Uniformity,
approved by Parliament in 1549, took the
reformation forward by establishing a Book of
Common Prayer.

This contained the wording of prayers and the

order of service to be used throughout the
kingdom in place of the old Catholic practices
 04
The effects of the
reformation in
today’s society
 Perhaps the most subtle impact of the Reformation was the legitimization — even
institutionalization — of questioning authority. Initially, the Reformers questioned the
authority of the Pope and Catholic tradition. But if the Pope’s authority could be
questioned, why not a judge’s? Or a doctor’s? Or the king’s?
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