Cottrell, the Anglican Archbishop of York, stood in on the Sistine Chapel service for Sarah Mullally. She was lately introduced as the primary girl to function Archbishop of Canterbury, the religious head of the Anglican Communion, however is not going to take the position till subsequent yr.
The break up between the Catholic Church and the Church of England was formalised in 1534, after Pope Clement VII refused to annul King Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon.
King Charles III, second from proper, and Queen Camilla, proper, attend a joint prayer with Pope Leo XIV within the Sistine Chapel on the Vatican.Credit score: AP
Henry’s need for a male inheritor – and a brand new spouse who would possibly present one – was the quick catalyst, however different elements had been additionally at play, involving the English crown’s seizure of church property and the expansion of Protestant concepts in England.
As England swung between Catholicism and Protestantism in the course of the reigns of Henry’s daughters Mary I and Elizabeth I, a whole lot of Catholics and Protestants had been executed for his or her religion, typically burned on the stake.
Charles to obtain particular title, seat at basilica
Charles and Camilla, who visited the Vatican earlier this yr to see Pope Francis, additionally had a non-public assembly with Leo on Thursday morning. At residence in Britain, Charles’ disgraced brother Prince Andrew is engulfed in a deepening disaster over abuse allegations and his ties with intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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The King will journey within the afternoon to Rome’s Basilica of St. Paul Outdoors the Partitions, one in every of Catholicism’s 4 most honored church buildings, the place Leo has authorised giving him a brand new title of “Royal Confrater”, or brother, on the related abbey.
Charles will even be gifted a particular seat within the apse of the basilica. The wood chair, reserved sooner or later to be used solely by British monarchs, is adorned with the king’s coat of arms and the ecumenical motto “Ut unum sint” (That they could be one).
Bishop Anthony Ball, the official Anglican consultant to the Vatican, stated the honours “present the dedication that each of our Church buildings must working for a shared future.”
Buckingham Palace introduced on Thursday that Charles had additionally authorised two British honours for Leo: making him the “Papal Confrater” of St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Citadel and conferring on him the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Tub.
Anglican-Catholic ties bettering since Sixties
The Church of England is one in every of 46 autonomous church buildings throughout some 165 nations that collectively type the Anglican Communion.
The Catholic Church, which has 1.4 billion members, and the Anglican Communion, with 85 million members, have been bettering their ties because the Sixties.
The teachings of the 2 traditions align on many main points, however the Catholic Church doesn’t ordain ladies and usually doesn’t enable monks to marry.
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