The Church of England

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church bases its formal establishment mainly to the mission to England by St Augustine of Canterbury in AD 597. It became an integral part of the Roman Catholic Church and acknowledged the authority of the Pope, following St Augustine's mission. Following a dispute over the annulment of the marriage of Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon, the Church of England separated from the Roman Catholic Church in 1534. It became the established church by an Act of Parliament in the Act of Supremacy, and began a number of events known as the English Reformation...