AGES ERA PERIOD
ELIZABETHAN PERIOD
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The Anglican Church
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The Roman Catholic Church
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Calvinism
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The Lutheran Church
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Detailed explanation-1: -1559: Queen Elizabeth wished to create a new moderate religious settlement derived from Henry VIII’s break from Rome. She established the Church of England in 1559.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Religious Settlement was an attempt by Elizabeth I to unite the country after the changes in religion under Henry VIII, Edward VI and Mary I. It was designed to settle the divide between Catholics and Protestants and address the differences in services and beliefs.
Detailed explanation-3: -Upon assuming the throne, Queen Elizabeth I restored England to Protestantism. This broke with the policy of her predecessor and half-sister, Queen Mary I, a Catholic monarch who ruthlessly tried to eliminate Protestantism from English society.
Detailed explanation-4: -When Pope Clement VII refused to approve the annulment of Henry’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon, the English Parliament, at Henry’s insistence, passed a series of acts that separated the English church from the Roman hierarchy and in 1534 made the English monarch the head of the English church.