After the 1534 Act of Supremacy unequivocally declared the monarch to be the “supreme head” of the Church in England, certain friends of St. Thomas More advised him to accept the Act, leaving questions of ecclesial authority to clergy and theologians. King Henry VIII, it could be reasoned, was taking a position on the authority of the bishop of Rome within the Catholic Church…
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