The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England.
The Church of England acts as the "mother" and senior branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion.
Early Christian writers wrote about the existence of a British church in the 3rd century AD.
Records show that British bishops attended the Council of Arles in 314.
Later, the Roman Catholic church dominated the relgeous landscape of Britain for a number of centuries.
In 1534, King Henry VIII became the Supreme Head of the Church of England.
In 1558, Queen Elizabeth I came to power.
In 1559, she passed the Act of Uniformity, which required the use of the Protestant Book of Common Prayer in church services.
The Bill of Rights (1689) declared that the monarch must be Protestant.
The Act of Settlement (1701) required that he or she be a member of the Church of England.
The Church of England ordained its first female priests in 1994.
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