The former head of the world's Anglicans, Justin Welby, on Saturday admitted errors over an abuse scandal that rocked the Church of England and forced him to resign last year.

Henry VIII was a Tudor king who ruled England ... Firstly, he became the Supreme Head of the Church of England, which was significant as so many people throughout the country were deeply religious.

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When the Pope refused to make an exception so that he could marry Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII broke from the Catholic church and ...

Kate Phillips (left) and Damian Lewis (right) as Jane Seymour and Henry VIII in "Wolf Hall ... who had yet to accept Henry’s status as head of the church and the invalidity of his marriage ...

On his deathbed Tudor King Henry VIII remembers his long reign ... out went Cardinal Wolsey as chief minister and Henry made himself head of the Church of England instead of the papacy and ...

the English Parliament introduced a series of measures intended to reform the theology and rituals of the Church of England established during the reign of her father, Henry VIII. But some ...

Henry, the second son of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, was born on 28 June 1491 at Greenwich Palace. After the death of his elder brother Arthur in 1502, Henry became heir to the English ...

In the east window of St Margaret's church Westminster, dated about 1526, there are kneeling figures of Henry and Katherine (her head has been replaced by a ... The coronation of Henry VIII and ...