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The Church of England defines itself as neither fully reformed Protestant nor fully Catholic. The Monarch of the United Kingdom is the supreme governor of the Church. Both Northern Ireland and Wales have no state religion since the Irish Church Act 1869 and the Welsh Church Act 1914, respectively.
During the 16th and 17th centuries, nearly all the monarchs and resulting governments of Scotland, Ireland, and England were defined as being either Catholic or Protestant. Henry VIII was the first monarch to introduce a new state religion to the English. In 1532, he wanted to have his marriage to his wife, Catherine of Aragon, annulled. [7]
The Catholic Education Service provides the central co-ordination under the Bishops' Conference for Catholic schools in England and Wales. In England and Wales, Catholic schools come under the jurisdiction of their local diocese who can inspect the religious education and acts of worship of the school under Section 48 of the Education Act 2005 ...
They generally kept a low profile. Their priests usually came from St Edmund's College, a seminary founded in 1793 by English refugees from the French revolution. The main disabilities, as referenced above, were lifted by the Catholic Relief Act 1829. In 1850 the pope restored the Catholic hierarchy, giving England its own Catholic bishops again.
In addition to the English College at Douai, a seminary was established at Rome, the Collegium Anglorum or English College, and two more were established in Spain in Valladolid and in Seville. Between 1574 and 1603, 600 Catholic priests were sent to England. [82] In 1580, the first Jesuit priests came to England. [83]
This category contains articles about universities and colleges in the United Kingdom.For institutions with full university status see the subcategory Category:Universities in the United Kingdom.
The Catholic Church in England and Wales is directed by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, whose current president is Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster. To highlight the historical Catholic continuity of Nichols' office, dating back to Pope Gregory I's appointment of St. Augustine and that pope's sequent ...
The two main providers of faith schools in England are the Church of England and the Catholic Education Service. [7] [8] In 2011, about one third of the 20,000 state funded schools in England were faith schools, [9] approximately 7,000 in total, of which 68% were Church of England schools and 30% were Roman Catholic.