Henry VIII adopted the Church of England as the monarchy’s religion in 1534 after the pope refused to consent to the king divorcing his first wife, Catherine of Aragon.

The July 7 event at Canterbury is evidence of a growing interest in shrines, saints and relics in the Church of England, ...

Henry VIII, who was born on this day in 1491, is the only English monarch other than William the Conqueror who can claim to ...

Amid the chaos wrought by the Protestant Reformation, the Church of England broke away from the Catholic Church under King Henry VIII, who in 1527, desiring a male heir, wanted to divorce his wife ...

Henry VIII established the Church of England in 1534, over a row with the Pope about his divorce from his first wife Catherine of Aragon.

Hans Holbein the Younger’s famous “Portrait of Henry VIII” is on loan to the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art from the ...

It was authorised by Henry VIII to be read aloud at Church of England services. The Act of the Ten Articles (1536), probably written by Thomas Cranmer, promoted some Protestant ideas and ...

Initially married to Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII (1491–1547) broke away from the Vatican and papal authority, naming himself head of the Church of England so he could annul the union and wed ...