Sentence examples for act of supremacy from inspiring English sources

The king passed the Act of Supremacy.

In 1534 he completed the erection of the royal supremacy with the passage of the Act of Supremacy.

The Act of Supremacy followed (November 1534), making the king of England head of the English church.

The Act of Supremacy, 1534 (26 Hen. VIII c. 1), a typical example of hand written legislation.

In 1534, tormented by the Roman church's opposition to his marriage to Anne Boleyn, Henry enacted the Act of Supremacy.

I did a fragment of another act about the Act of Supremacy, Jesus and the Church of England.

Finally in 1534 the Acts of Supremacy made Henry "supreme head in earth of the Church of England" and disregarded any "usage, custom, foreign laws, foreign authority [or] prescription".

The Acts of Supremacy and the Uniformity Act of 1559 also included an oath of allegiance to the Queen (Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I) and an implicit denial of the Pope's (then Pope Paul IV) authority over the English Church.

With the Acts of Supremacy in 1534, Parliament also recognised the King's status as head of the church in England and with the Act in Restraint of Appeals in 1532, abolished the right of appeal to Rome.

Henry VIII broke from communion with the Catholic Church, over issues relating to his divorce, under the Acts of Supremacy in 1534 which proclaimed the monarch head of the Church of England.

To ignore this reality is but another act of white supremacy.