what religion is king henry viii?
Church of England Anglo-Catholicism
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 In 1547 , Henry died and Edward succeeded him , as Edward VI . Mary inherited estates in Norfolk , Suffolk and Essex , and was granted Hunsdon and Beaulieu as her own . Since Edward was still a child , rule passed to a regency council dominated by Protestants , who attempted to establish their faith throughout the country . For example , the Act of Uniformity 1549 prescribed Protestant rites for church services , such as the use of Thomas Cranmer 's new Book of Common Prayer . Mary remained faithful to Roman Catholicism and defiantly celebrated the traditional mass in her own chapel . She appealed to her cousin Charles V to apply diplomatic pressure demanding that she be allowed to practice her religion . 

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 " This realm of England is an Empire , and so hath been accepted in the world , governed by one Supreme Head and King having the dignity and royal estate of the Imperial Crown of the same , unto whom a body politic compact of all sorts and degrees of people divided in terms and by names of Spirituality and Temporality , be bounden and owe to bear next to God a natural and humble obedience . " 

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 Edward 's approach to religion was normal for the period , and the historian Michael Prestwich describes him as " a man of wholly conventional religious attitudes " . There were daily chapel services and alms @-@ giving at his court , and Edward blessed the sick , although he did this less often than his predecessors . Edward remained close to the Dominican Order , who had helped to educate him , and followed their advice in asking for papal permission to be anointed with the Holy Oil of St Thomas of Canterbury in 1319 ; this request was refused , causing the King some embarrassment . Edward supported the expansion of the universities during his reign , establishing King 's Hall in Cambridge to promote training in religious and civil law , Oriel College in Oxford and a short @-@ lived university in Dublin . 

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 Although Edward reigned for only six years and died at the age of 15 , his reign made a lasting contribution to the English Reformation and the structure of the Church of England . The last decade of Henry VIII 's reign had seen a partial stalling of the Reformation , a drifting back to more conservative values . By contrast , Edward 's reign saw radical progress in the Reformation . In those six years , the Church transferred from an essentially Roman Catholic liturgy and structure to one that is usually identified as Protestant . In particular , the introduction of the Book of Common Prayer , the Ordinal of 1550 , and Cranmer 's Forty @-@ two Articles formed the basis for English Church practices that continue to this day . Edward himself fully approved these changes , and though they were the work of reformers such as Thomas Cranmer , Hugh Latimer , and Nicholas Ridley , backed by Edward 's determinedly evangelical Council , the fact of the king 's religion was a catalyst in the acceleration of the Reformation during his reign . 

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 Henry VIII broke from communion with the Catholic Church , over issues relating to his divorce , under the Acts of Supremacy in 1534 which proclaimed the monarch head of the Church of England . In contrast with much of European Protestantism , the roots of the split were more political than theological . He also legally incorporated his ancestral land Wales into the Kingdom of England with the 1535 – 1542 acts . There were internal religious conflicts during the reigns of Henry 's daughters , Mary I and Elizabeth I. The former took the country back to Catholicism while the latter broke from it again , forcefully asserting the supremacy of Anglicanism . 
