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Why do you think the Pope coined Henry VIII the “Defender of the Faith?”

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The Pope gave him that title, because he wrote a book defending Catholicism against Luther’s arguments. The Pope revoked the title when Henry turned Protestant himself, but he kept it anyway.

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