Supremacy Act
(1534)
In his move to cut the Roman Catholic Church off from England, King Henry VIII declared the Act of Supremacy in 1534, declaring "The king’s majesty justly and rightly is and ought to be and shall be reputed the only supreme head in earth of the Church of England called ‘Anglicana Ecclesia’." Thus was the break with Rome complete.
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