The Anglician church was started by a fat lecherious King of England so he could get a divorce from his wife, so I would that doesn't count.
It may follow the basic traditions of the Catholic churcn, but the bishops and priests trace their authority to Henry VIII, who simply appointed himself supreme head of the Church of England on no one's authority.
Many who find themselves poorly versed in Anglicanism usually parrot this distorted historical perspective only because this is what they've been told....you know, by someone else who was poorly versed.
You are referring to the birth of the Church of England during the protestant reformation.
Anglicanism existed many years prior to the fat King's dissension against the Pope.
“The Anglician church was started by a fat lecherious King of England so he could get a divorce from his wife, so I would that doesn’t count.”
You mean “Defender of the Faith” Henry? The first time he got that title it was from the Pope....
The fact that Rome was obviously politically favoring Spain at the time didn’t have anything to do with the rise of Anglicanism, I’m sure.
That’s the thing....Henry was what he was (and if he was a Kennedy, he’d have still been Catholic), but the Pope was hardly a paragon of virtue - steeped in the intrigue and politics of the time.
Protestantism saved the Catholic Church, forced it to clean up it’s act. And this is the thanks we get!
Well, so be it. They’ll be more than a few popes in hell to keep me company when I get there.