How dd henry viii break with rome?

Question

how dd he do this guys plz help

Answer 1

he wanted to divorce the mrs; the RCC didn't allow divorce.

Protestantism was "in," so Henry seized the opportunity to break with Rome, install himself as head of the Anglican Church, and reapportion RCC lands to his supporters in the process.

Answer 2

he didn't Thomas Cromwell did, Henry seems to get the glory for turning England into a Protestant state, but really he could not have cared less, all he was worried about was siring an heir.  Henry was a staunch Catholic at heart and put down many of the proposed changes within the church and the mass while he was alive.  Protestantism didn't actually come into its own in Britain until the reign of his son Edward VI, even then Edward had nothing really to do with it, it was all sanctioned by the privy council and the Lord Protector Edward Seymour ( Jane Seymour, Edwards mothers, brother) with the fanatical help of Bishop Cranmer

Henry VIII actually wrote a book with Thomas More condemning the 95 theses of Martin Luther, he was given the honour of 'defender of the faith' by the Pope, a title our Majesty Queen Elizabeth still holds to this day.

it was all  Politics, it had nothing to do with conviction, it was Henry's desperation that led to the reformation in Britain.

thanx ST

Answer 3

He did it very irrationally. He had petitioned several times, and had sent several diplomats to rome to kind of force the pope into agreeing. Then pretty much one day he said s***w it, I am king here, not rome!

Answer 4

He broke the relations with Rome by becoming head of the church and just to anger them further, he took all the gold that accumulated in the churches(for they were extremely wealthy) and took all their land.  This sent rome in fury who would later try to conquer brittany

Answer 5

King Henry VIII  was known for establishing many significant pieces of legislation during his reign. They included the several Acts which severed the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church and established the king as the supreme head of the Church in England.

In 1525, Henry's increasing impatience with what he perceived to be Catherine's inability to produce the desired heir was given a new spur when he became attracted to a charismatic young courtier in the Queen's entourage, Anne Boleyn. Henry ordered Cardinal Wolsey to begin formal proceedings with Rome to annul his marriage on the grounds that Catherine's brief marriage to the sickly Arthur had, indeed, been consummated. The king's secretary, William Knight, went to Rome to petition Pope Clement VII for the annulment, but the Pope was highly reluctant to grant the king’s request due to pressure from Catherine's nephew, Emperor Charles V, whose troops had pillaged Rome and were forcing the Pope to remain imprisoned in the Vatican, and an unwillingness to overturn the previous Pope's decision. Wolsey's efforts to lobby for the annulment were unavailing. These failures, concomitant with his growing estrangement from Catherine, finally led to Wolsey's dismissal as Lord Chancellor by Henry in 1529. His replacement, Sir Thomas More, seemed an even less likely candidate to secure Henry's desired end, given his scruples about the suit and his loyalty to Rome.

At the same time, Henry discovered and promoted other men of a different temper. Foremost among these were two gifted young clerics, Thomas Cromwell and Thomas Cranmer. It was Cranmer who first suggested in 1529 that Henry should consult the "theology faculties of the continental universities" for an opinion about the validity of his marriage. The project, abetted by apparent bribes and favors, achieved the hoped-for success, with favorable opinions offered to the English Parliament in 1530. Cranmer's support of the King's efforts to put aside Catherine of Aragon were rewarded with a position as ambassador to the imperial court, and shortly thereafter, he was appointed to replace William Warham as Archbishop of Canterbury upon the latter's death. Cromwell, meanwhile, earned a position as chief adviser to the king with his even more daring proposal that Henry consider abolishing papal supremacy and declare himself head of the Church in England. Both Cromwell and Cranmer were protégés of Boleyn, who shared her growing sympathies with Protestant doctrines taking shape on the continent. Threats of withheld papal tithes having failed to move Clement VII to action, Henry finally took matters into his own hands: he secretly married Boleyn in January 1533, and shortly thereafter, had his allies in Parliament pass a statute forbidding further appeals to Rome. Archbishop Cranmer quickly moved to declare Henry's marriage to Catherine invalid and his new one to Anne Boleyn valid. Boleyn was crowned Queen of England on June 1, and gave birth to a daughter, Elizabeth (later Elizabeth I of England), three months later.

The Pope reacted by moving to excommunicate Henry in July 1533. Considerable religious upheaval followed. Urged by Cromwell, Parliament passed several acts that enforced the breach with Rome in the spring of 1534. The Statute in Restraint of Appeals prohibited appeals from English ecclesiastical courts to the Pope. It also prevented the Church from making any regulations without the King's consent. The Ecclesiastical Appointments Act 1534 required the clergy to elect bishops nominated by the Sovereign. The Act of Supremacy 1534 declared that the King was "the only Supreme Head in Earth of the Church of England"; the Treasons Act 1534 made it high treason, punishable by death, to refuse to acknowledge the King as such. The Pope was also denied sources of revenue such as Peter's Pence.

Answer 6

He created himself the Head of the Anglican church, and ordered the dissolution of the monasteries. The Catholic church was the largest land holder in England and extremely wealthy.

When he sacked the larger monasteries and cathedrals, he stripped them of there finery, enriched the crown treasury and obtained land.

He created reforms such as removal of the choir screens and had the prayer book translated into English. No longer would the priest stand at the alter with his back away from the church goers, instead they faced the pulpit. The Catholic idols were stripped and seen as worshipping images; false idols.

With the money and land he seized, Henry ennobled and enriched his favorite supporters.

Poor Katherine. =(

Answer 7

Basically, like many medieval monarchs, he resented the power Rome enjoyed in meddling in the kingdom's affairs by naming bishops, deciding who could remain married to whom, dangling the threat of excommunication and intecdict over the country if the monarch displeased the Holy See...

Henry wanted to get riud of his wife Catherine of Aragon, who had given him only one daughter, no male heir, and who was so old that it was certain she would not bear any.

Rome had refused his petitions for annullment of the marriage, so one day he decided to repudiate Katherine anyway and married Ann Boleyn.

Of course, the pope promptly excommunicated him and gave instructions to the prelates of England to place the country under interdict until the populace, deprived of rite and sacrament, revolted. He reacted by naming himself head of the Church of England and demanding obedience from the bishops, abbots etc The schism was consummated....

Answer 8

He declared himself supreme head of the church in England and appointed bishops without the Pope's approval.

Answer 9

He wanted to divorce Catherine of Aragon so he could have a male heir. The Pope wouldn't agree so he went ahead anyway. He married Anne Boleyn next.

Because Catherine was Spanish, he was excommunicated. Spain was an economic super-power (the equivalent to America today) and Rome ever greedy for money and power was easy to influence.

Henry was always sympathetic towards the Roman Catholic church, it is wrong to believe he wished to be protestant.

His son Edward VI (by Jane Seymour) was a fanatical protestant and violently enforced protestant practice across the country.

Answer 10

watch The Tudors on showtime..its all about him, his rise and fall.