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To: bobjam

No. The Roman Catholic Church in Britain dates to 303 AD.

The “Anglican” Church was born in Henry VIII’s codpiece! (HUMOR):)


22 posted on 06/18/2007 1:53:04 PM PDT by TexConfederate1861
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To: TexConfederate1861

The Roman Catholic Church took over the Church of England in 1066. William of Normandy received Papal blessing for his excursion on the condition that he replace the Saxon and Celtic bishops with ones who were more loyal to Rome. This is why the Orthodox date their schism with the Anglicans to 1066 and not 1054. You must understand that though the Church of England was in Communion with the Bishop of Rome (Synod of Whitby), the English Church, like the Greek Church, was not controlled by Rome until the arrival of the Normans. From the 1066 until 1582, the English people struggled against Roman control (Henry II, the Magna Carta, Edward I, the Acts of Praemenire, the Hundred Years War, the Acts of Restraint in Appeals and Supremacy, the Elizabethan Settlement and the Spanish Armada). Spain’s failure to take England by force and, like William of Normandy, replace the English bishops with ones loyal to Rome, sadly ended, perhaps forever, any possibility of a full Anglo-Roman reconciliation.


73 posted on 06/19/2007 4:52:38 AM PDT by bobjam
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