Back Zákony o svrchovanosti Czech Suprematsakte German Νόμος Υπεροχής (1534) Greek Gvidpova akto Esperanto Acta de Supremacía Spanish Suprematialaki Finnish Acte de suprématie French חוק העליונות הראשון HE Acts of Supremacy ID Atto di Supremazia Italian
The Acts of Supremacy are two acts passed by the Parliament of England in the 16th century that established the English monarchs as the head of the Church of England; two similar laws were passed by the Parliament of Ireland establishing the English monarchs as the head of the Church of Ireland. The 1534 Act declared King Henry VIII and his successors as the Supreme Head of the Church, replacing the Pope. This first Act was repealed during the reign of the Catholic Queen Mary I. The 1558 Act declared Queen Elizabeth I and her successors the Supreme Governor of the Church, a title that the British monarch still holds.
Royal supremacy is specifically used to describe the legal sovereignty of the king (i.e., civil law) over the law of the Church in England.[citation needed][1]
- ^ Stillingfleet, Edward (1689). A discourse concerning the illegality of the late ecclesiastical commission in answer to the vindication and defence of it : wherein the true notion of the legal supremacy is cleared, and an account is given of the nature, original, and mischief of the dispensing power. p. 14.