In addition to having a lot of wives, Henry VIII is also most famous for bringing the Protestant Reformation to England. But really, how reformed was he?
The Catholic church wasn't the only church in Europe before the Reformation. Orthodox churches dominated Christianity in most of eastern and southern Europe - in what later became Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia, and Macedonia for example. Please don't equate "Europe" with western Europe - it's a very large continent.
The Catholic church wasn't the only church in Europe before the Reformation. Orthodox churches dominated Christianity in most of eastern and southern Europe - in what later became Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia, and Macedonia for example. Please don't equate "Europe" with western Europe - it's a very large continent.
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