Do majority of English people follow the Vetican or Church of England? Why?

Answer 1

Most people in England when asked associate themselves with the CoE, though few of them actually practice worship. It's cultural and historical and not an active faith for the most part. The CoE has been the established church in england since the 16th Century, people did not have much a choice in the matter unless they wanted to get burned at the stake. Irish immigrants brought about a resurgence in Catholiscism in the 18th century. when there was greater religious tolerance. Islam is now the largest growing religion.

Answer 2

Beagn when Martin Luther put his 93 or 99(cant remember) theses onto a catholic church saying that the pope was forcioong people to pay for forgiveness from God. Then when Henry VIII wanted a divorce from Catherine of Aragon to marry Anne Boleyn, he was refused by the pope so he broke off from the Roman Catholic faith and established the C of E. His daughter Elizabeth I of england in 1558 to 1603 came to the thorne it was officailly made into the C of E religion and has since then stayed this way.

Answer 3

Most of the English people follow the church of England since in Elizabethan england under Elizabeth the I, the Roman Catholic church was outlawed.

Answer 4

During medieval age, any king needed be in good relations with the church to maintain its control. Usually is common you hear that its kingdom were its right by the Divine Choice. There are many cases where Kings went to Vatican as a "poor" doing peregrination showing its desire to the pope to not be excomungated.

Church was the clue and balance to Feuddal Nobles power, Knowledge and people control.

... but Henry VIII was to divorce from Katherine of Aragon (Catarina) and pope did not the permission to him to it, and under the possibility to be excomungated, Henry, mad, created his own church based on same principles from Catholic, but not having he Pope as a Leader, but the England Kingdom. It was created Anglicanism, new chistrian religion.

As a King, official religion in England become Anglicanism (CoE) and Catholics priests were banned and worship to catholics were forbidden, monasteries were destroyed and, as usual, you can find cases where priests and people who refused to accept were tortured and executed.
We are talking about the 16th Century.

Answer 5

When the pope refused to accept Henry VIII divorce from Katherine of Aragon, he left the Catholic church and created the church of England. Catholic mass was forbidden, monasteries destroyed and priests and people who refused to accept CE tortured and executed. His daughter Mary known as Bloody Mary burned the protestants at the stake. England returned to CE under Elizabeth I. Many catholics fled the country as the church of England became the established religion.

Answer 6

There have been some sick feeling in the direction of the prevalent church for numerous centuries (e.g. John Wyclif and the Lollards). It became an Age of super inquisitiveness as properly, so the particularly reactionary place of the Roman Catholic church in no longer allowing human beings to study the Bible in English went against the way wisdom became establishing up. Kings have been extraordinarily efficient, and so Henry VIII used the Protestant temper in Europe on the time to help his marriage difficulty, and get funds by advertising off monasteries. Queen Mary additionally did it in England for Catholicism by her grotesque punishment of Protestants. If she hadn't completed that we could desire to have been happy to pass decrease back to Catholicism. Violence as properly, like the Armada and Gunpowder plot, created sick-will in the direction of catholicism. In Scotland as properly for their very own motives they became off catholicism. Us Brits do no longer truly like fanaticism (it is why extremely-protestant Puritanism wasn't in favour for long a century later imo.)

Answer 7

I have met quite a few people who follow the Church of England. I guess this is because Catholicism is too strict for modern life, but people are still brought up Christian. Yet there are a lot of people who say they are Christian, because they can't be bothered to say they are non-religious, or because they were brought up that way, but can't be bothered with any of the actual beliefs or practices. I have met very few Catholics.

Answer 8

There is an interesting Wikipedia article that would give you the historical background to the conversion of England from Catholicism to Protestantism. The URL is below:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformation#English_Reformation

Answer 9

i would say the amount of people in england going to church is on the decrease in the last 10 or 20 years and it is more multi culture now with muslims, hindu and others

Answer 10

most English people are church of england,this is due to history, henry v111 declared himself head of the church in england,his daughter elizabeth was a rabid anti catholic
the church of england was the only recognised faith in england for many years,this is the reason for it being the predominant faith