Changes to the Church’s Structure

• Act of Supremacy


  Confirmed the King as supreme head of the Church in 1534
• The Act did not confer the supremacy on the king
• Cromwell Vicegerent in Spirituals


  Appointed by the king in 1534, second only to the king and outranked the archbishops and bishops, giving him considerable power over the Church
• Creation of six new dioceses


  Attempt to improve the Church's administration
• Spiritual jurisdiction continued in the hands of archbishops and bishops
• The Church of England differed from reformed churches in continental Europe in this way