Was Queen Elizabeth I for Protestantism or Catholicism?

Question

Was Queen Elizabeth I for Protestantism or Catholicism?

Answer 1

Queen Elizabeth I was for Protestantism and her older sister Mary was for Catholicism. Many people in England wanted Elizabeth to be queen because she was protestant and they knew if Mary became queen, they could be prosecuted.

Answer 2

Protestant, unlike her predecessor and older sister Mary I (AKA Mary Tudor and Bloody Mary) who was Catholic.

People seem to confuse Mary, Queen of Scots and Mary I of England, they are two separate people but were cousins (first cousins once removed).

Answer 3

Queen Elizabeth I was a Protestant through and through.  She was the 2nd "Defender of the Faith" and took honor in the defeat of the Catholic Church in England, which she felt (and was correct) was no good.  By placing the Anglican Church ahead of Catholiscism, she gave herself more authority and especially in matters of "proper" things.  After all, she is the face of religion in England, much as the Pope is for Catholics.  She was almost assassinated (BY THE POPE)  2 or 3 times.

She felt her own mother was scapegoated by the Catholic Church because of King Henry VIII first wife.  By marrying while his first wife was alive, Henry was committing bigamy and this made the Princess Elizabeth "a b*stard."  She was treated this way even after she became Queen.  In time, she proved herself and it wasn't such an issue.  However, France and other countries felt England should belong to them, since she was considered a "b*stard."  This led to Queen Mary getting her head cut off for trying to kill Queen Elizabeth.    You have to remember that the Pope at that time would NOT allow the divorce of Henry and Catherine, and by the King remarrying with his first wife alive, according to the Pope, this would make ALL HIS OTHER CHILDREN B*STARDS.

So no, Queen Elizabeth I was not about to love Catholiscism when the Pope was trying to kill her.  He (the Pope) would simply say that anyone who killed her would be doing God's work.  This does not make someone love the Church when they REALLY ARE OUT TO GET YOU!

Answer 4

Protestantism. Mary Queen of Scots was the Catholic. Both were bloody in their convictions.

Answer 5

Queen Elizabeth the first was Protestant like her father,Henry the eighth. Henry was a Catholic but when the Pope would not allow him to divorce his wife (Catherine of Arragon) his advisors convinced him to leave the church and also convinced Henry that his marriage to Catherine was illegal because he had married his dead brother's wife (Henry had an older brother,Arthur who died young  but had married Catherine first).  Because Elizabeth lived in fear that her older half sister, Mary Tutor (AKA as "Bloody Mary"), would have her murdered because whereas Elizabeth followed the Protestant faith of her father,Mary,who was the daughter of Henry and Catherine of Arragon,was raised mostly by her mother and became as devout a Catholic as her mother.

Answer 6

She was nominally Protestant -- her mother, Anne Boylen, introduced Henry VIII to Martin Luther's school of thought regarding the Reformation.  However, as Queen, she has often been quoted as saying "There is but one Lord, Jesus Christ.  All the rest are just trifles."  She understood Catholicism, but knew that the only way she could rule England was as a Protestant queen.

Answer 7

Queen Elizabeth was raised as a Conservative Protestant. She promised to be a good Queen and allowed more religious freedom than her sister, Queen Mary I of England (a Catholic fanatic). She did not prosecute Catholic followers for their beliefs as long as they followed the laws and didn't cause any troubles.

Answer 8

Protestantism. She was a protestant. As a result of this, her sister tried to have her on treason charges claiming Elizabeth the first was trying to kill her.

Answer 9

Queen Elizabeth I practiced the Protestant faith of The Church of England, established by her father, King Henry VIII.

Answer 10

She was a protestant

Answer 11

Probably neither, as they were cousins of my bloodline, namely, the Royal House of Stewart, who were called "The Observants", religiously/spiritually, and they weren't, really, Christian at all; if anything, I would suppose they'd be accused of leaning toward the Protestant belief(-s).

Answer 12

Protestantism