Edward VI: Religion

• 1547: Images denounced. Royal Injunctions condemned Catholic practices.

  Act of Six Articles, Heresy laws and Treason Act repealed, Chantries act passed with destruction of Catholic altars and Icons.
• 1548: Church images banned
• 1549: Act of Uniformity bans latin mass, enforced book of Common Prayer, eucharist changed. Sparked Western Rebellion.
• 1551: Removal of Catholic Bishops - Gardiner, Bonner, Day, Heath and Tunstall. Services rewritten, Communion reformed.
• 1552: New Treason Act - cannot question Royal Supremacy or Church of England Doctrine.

  Second Act of Uniformity - became an offense for clergy not to attend services

  Second Book of Common Prayer - all traces of Catholicism removed.

  42 Articles of Religion - Cranmer, Outlined Protestant Doctrine of Church of England.