Did King Henry VIII die a Roman Catholic?

[Romanov_Fan19]

Did he die a Roman Catholic  or washe a Protestant / CoE

[Michael HR]

As he had done away with the Church of Rome and invented the Church of England to which he was head he must have died a Protestant as far as I can see. The Protestant church in th ebeginning was much more like a Catholic church than it is today unless you go to High Church.

[Norbert]

Yes he died a Catholic. Henry VIII made himself Head of the Church IN England, however it was still a Roman Catholic country. It was left to his son Edward VI to establish a Protestant church and Elizabeth I who settled the Anglican compromise.

[mcdnab]

The Early post reformation Church in England was essentially different to most european protestantism - whilst it broke the link with Rome and whilst many churchmen and politicians leant towards the reformist nature of Luther and Calvin - the English Church under Henry VIII remained pretty much Catholic in form and attitude  Under Edward VI there was a significant shift towards a more european protestantism reversed under the staunchly catholic Mary I - the Elizabethan settlement trod a more central ground which under the Stuarts became the Church we have today.  James I much preferred the anglican style with bishops and its emphasis on the monarch as the head of the church than the calvinist presbytarianism of his upbringing.  Elizabeth and her successor James I would in modern terms probably be regarded as high anglicans, Henry probably as Anglo Catholic.

[Kurt Steiner]

After a little while away, let's return to work

I would say that he died a Catholic man, indeed. He began the way to Protestantism, indeed, with the dissolution of the monasteries, the Surpemacy Act and the provision of an official English Bible. However, with the fall of Cromwell and the Act of Six Articles he began to undo the changes. As said above, the reform would have to wait til Edward VI and, most specially, to Elizabeth I.

[lady]

Henry disliked Luther and lutheranism.

[Olishka Romanova]

Henry VIII was not a Roman Catholic after he broke the English church away from Rome.  However, I am quite sure that, even after this, he still saw himself as a Catholic, just not a Roman Catholic.  In Henry VIII; The King and His Court by Alison Weir, it states:

"To the end of his life, Henry VIII remained a devout Catholic who deplored Lutheran and other heresies...He was unwavering in his adherence to the doctrine of transubstantiation, believed in purgatory and clerical celibacy, and insisted on maintaining the Latin rituals and ceremonies he had grown up with; he was no iconoclast, and his closets and chapels were full of painted or graven images...But he was not in favour of extreme unction, individual confession, or the traditional mystical concept of ordination to the priesthood.  He burned Lutherans for heresy and papists for treason..."