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1. Why did King Henry VIII break with the Catholic Church and what church did he create?

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Henry VIII was a Catholic when he began his reign of England in 1509. ... But Catholic doctrine did not allow for divorce, so the Pope refused to allow the King to divorce Catherine. So the King broke with the Catholic Church, created his own (the Church of England), and declared that the King was the head of the church.

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