King Henry later fell into a dispute with Pope Clement VII when the pope refused to grant him a divorce from Catherine of Aragon, his first wife. Clement excommunicated Henry. The British Parliament responded by passing the Act of Supremacy of 1534, declaring that the King was "the only Supreme Head in Earth of the Church of England" and effectively separating the Anglican Church from the Roman Catholic Church.
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