求:关于The Roman Catholic Church&The Anglican Church的英文资料

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从历史和现状两方面。希望不要太复杂。

The Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Church:
a brief historical overview

The Rt Revd Pierre W. Whalon

In the first thousand years of the Church's existence, there was only one Church. The Church of England was a part of that Catholic Church, having existed in Britain since the second century A.D. Until the seventh century, the Church of the British Isles enjoyed considerable independence from Rome. After the great split between the Eastern Church and the Western Church, commonly dated at 1054 A. D., the English church was still very much a part of the Western portion under the Pope's authority as chief bishop. The first hint that the English might not consider themselves totally under Rome's dominion is the famous line in the Magna Carta: "The English Church (Ecclesia Anglicana) shall be free."

What really set the stage for the development of Anglicanism were the problems of the succession to the English throne. After