Henry VIII and Donald Trump both challenged elite institutions—Oxford and Harvard—to control narratives and demand loyalty.

Then, in 1601, Pope Clement VIII declared the legend to be untrue ... During those years the Vatican was occupied by Henry IV, the Holy Roman Emperor, and the papacy was highly contested.

Sir Jonathan played another religious figure, Cardinal Wolsey, in the Wolf Hall series that tells the story of the rise of King Henry VIII’s (Lewis) adviser Thomas Cromwell (Sir Mark Rylance). Pope ...

According to the Roman Catholic tradition of apostolic succession, Peter was the first pope appointed by Christ. The line of ...

Henry, the second son of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, was born on 28 June 1491 at Greenwich Palace. After the death of his elder brother Arthur in 1502, Henry became heir to the English ...

The pope is at once the supreme pontiff of the Catholic Church ... Clement’s successor Paul III excommunicated England’s King Henry VIII, cementing the English break with Rome in 1538. Alexander VI ...

As the second wife of King Henry VIII, she was the queen who was long ... would not allow the King to set her aside. The Pope refused to grant Henry an annulment, and so the King triggered a ...

Now that Henry VIII is head of the Church of England, and he’s taking down the monasteries and cutting off funds to the papacy, he’s clearly not part of the Catholic Church headed by the Pope.

In new film Firebrand, Jude Law and Alicia Vikander star as Henry VIII and his sixth wife, Catherine Parr, reframing how history and culture have presented the monarch. Inarguably Britain's most ...

His book refuting the heresies of Luther which he presented to the Pope gained him the new title Fidei Defensor ... who survived her husband. The coronation of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon took ...