Protestant Mainline Churches

The mainline Protestant church I want to write about today is the Anglican Church (known as Episcopalianism in the US). This church has an interesting inception. How so? Well, King Henry VIII decided that he really didn't care for his wife anymore (apparently she was pretty unruly and was unwilling to bare him a son) and so King Henry wanted to divorce her. Come to find out, the Pope wouldn't grant his request (which didn't make Henry very happy), so he decided he would leave the Catholic Church and create his own church, the Church of England (e.g. Anglicanism)!

This may not sound like a big deal to you, but at this time church and state were one. You didn't have one without the other. In other words, you get kicked out (excommunicated) of church then you were kicked out of your town/society. But since Henry was a powerful man, he decided he'd make a power play and create a church and make his own rules....rules where it was permissible for him to get rid of his wives (he was married several times) whenever he wanted. I find it ironic that the Anglican Church (a Christian Protestant Church) was formed by a pretty scandalous, sinful act.