Let’s start not from the very beginner, but from Henry’s first marriage.

The Catherine
of Aragon, daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella of Aragon, princess of Spanish throne.
Together they had 4 children, but only one – girl Maria, in future she’ll be known as
Bloody Mary, survived. Till the 4th pregnancy, Catherine was quiet old, 42, and hope for a
new child were miserable.
When Henry realized that Queen Catherine was not able to give birth to his heir, he
made an attempt to divorce her. He asked permission from Pope Julius II, but according to
church canons, if the pope did not find reasons not to conclude this marriage, now he could
not give permission for divorce.

Henry convened the parliament and put up for discussion the question of annulment
of marriage. The officials gathered at the meeting were ready to reform the church, but
could not agree on how exactly this would look. Time passed, but the matter did not move.
Then the king decided it’s time to act and accuse all the English clergy of encroaching on
royal power.
In 1534, the English church was separated from the Roman Catholic. The king was
declared the "only Supreme Head of the Church on the land of Anglican Church."
This was followed by a law prescribing the transfer of all church and monastery lands
in favor of the state.
These macro-reforms have changed everything beyond recognition. Henry ordered the
clergy to preach superstition, miracles and pilgrimages, as well as remove almost all the
candles from religious rites. His catechism of 1545 abolished (упрознил) the saints.

Separated completely from the pope, the Church of England was ruled by England,
not Rome. From 1536 to 1537, the great northern uprising began, known as the
“Pilgrimage of Grace”, during which 30 thousand people rebelled against reform.
This was the only serious threat to the authority of Henry as a monarch. The leader of
the rebellion, Robert Aske and another 200 people were executed. When John Fisher,
Bishop of Rochester and Sir Thomas More, former Lord Chancellor of Henry, refused to
swear an oath to the king, they were sentenced to death.
The result of these reforms was the loss of power by the pope in England, and the
population was given the opportunity to read the Bible in their native language.
But Henry achieved his main goal - he divorced Catherine of Aragon and now could
make decisions regardless of Rome.