Sentences with phrase «supreme head of the church»

The Presbyterian Church USA was formed in 1983, the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod in 1847, and the Southern Baptist Convention in 1845, while the Episcopal Church claims a more venerable, or at least longer, legacy reaching back to Henry VIII's styling himself Supreme Head of the Church in England in 1534.

With the Archbishop of Canterbury presiding over Friday's wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, and with William in line to become supreme head of the Church of England, the royal nuptials will be steeped in religion.

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in every respect, too, He is man, the formation of God; and thus He took up man into Himself, the invisible becoming visible, the incomprehensible being made comprehensible, the impassible becoming capable of suffering, and the Word being made man, thus summing up all things in Himself: so that as in super-celestial, spiritual, and invisible things, the Word of God is supreme, so also in things visible and corporeal He might possess the supremacy, and, taking to Himself the pre-eminence, as well as constituting Himself Head of the Church, He might draw all things to Himself at the proper time.

The six decades during which she has straddled the roles both of head of state and of Supreme Governor of the Church of England have witnessed such societal change that it is almost as if her detractors are waiting patiently for her to leave the stage, before redeveloping the constitution over which the Queen presides.

As the Pope refused to give the required annulment, Henry eventually pushed the English Parliament into declaring that the English church was competent to decide its own cases, and in 1534 Parliament declared that the king «is and ought to be the supreme head of the English Church&rchurch was competent to decide its own cases, and in 1534 Parliament declared that the king «is and ought to be the supreme head of the English Church&rChurch».

Henry's legislation against Rome was revived, although Elizabeth chose to be called «supreme governor», unlike Henry who called himself «supreme head» of the church in England.

In 1535 Henry announced himself the «supreme head on earth of the English Church.»

Currently, the reigning monarch is head of state, the head of the Church and holds the titles of supreme governor of the Church of England and defender of the faith.

But both let us know that among the heads of the Jerusalem church (whoever they were and by whatever name they were called), there was one supreme head, namely James the Lord's brother.l2 He was apparently more influential even than Peter.

In conclusion it is stated that the aforesaid Jurors declared Thomas More falsely, traitorously and maliciously by craft imagined, invented, practiced and attempted wholly to deprive our sovereign Lord and king of his dignity, supreme head in earth of the Church of England, to manifest contempt of the king and in derogation of his royal crown..

Barring unexpected events, it will become head of the armed forces, supreme governor of the Church of England, head of the Commonwealth and head of state of 16 countries.