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What triggered the events that resulted in the formation of the Church of England?

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Henry VIII wanted to divorce his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, and the Catholic Church would not let him. So he created his own church, with the monarch as its governor and the Archbishop of Canterbury as its religious leader.
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