Why did the English government break with Rome during the English Reformation?

Question

Is is A, B, C, or D?

A) when there was no theological dispute between king & pope

B) after the pope took the side of the nobility against the king

C) after Protestantism had already come to dominate English life

D) after it took the side of France in a political dispute

Answer 1

It was Henry VIII who broke away to the Church of England, after the Pope wouldn't grant him a divorce to his wife Catherine of Aragon. Catherine had only bore him one child a girl Mary, as England had just gone through a lengthy dynastic conflict (War of the Roses) Henry feared his lack of a male heir might jepardize his descendent's claim to the throne, when the Pope wouldn't give him his divorce, he decided to remove the church of England from the authority of Rome. In 1534 the Act of supremacy made Henry the Supreme head of the Church of England.