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The Act of Uniformity in 1559 set the order of prayer
Prayer

Prayer is the act of communicating with a deity or spirit in worship. Specific forms of this may include praise, requesting divine providence, confessing sins, as an act of reparation or an expression of one's emotional expression....
 to be used in the English Book of Common Prayer
Book of Common Prayer

The Book of Common Prayer is the common title of a number of prayer books of the Church of England and used throughout the Anglican Communion. The first book, published in 1549 , in the reign of Edward VI of England, was a product of the English Reformation following the break with Roman Catholic Church....
. Every man had to go to church once a week or be fined 12 pence (equivalent to just over £11 in 2007 ), a considerable sum for the poor. With this act Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I of England

Elizabeth I was List of English monarchs and Queen of Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the House of Tudor....
 made it a legal obligation to go to church every Sunday. The 'Act of Uniformity' reinforced the Book of Common Prayer. After passage, fourteen bishops
Bishops

Bishops can refer to:*The plural of bishop, a religious official*The plural of bishop , a chess piece*Diocesan College, South Africa*The Bishops, British band...
 were dismissed from their sees, and all the other sees, except Llandaff
Anthony Kitchin

Anthony Kitchin also known as Anthony Dunstone was a mid-16th century Abbot of Eynsham Abbey and Bishop of Llandaff in both the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England....
, were at the time vacant.






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The Act of Uniformity in 1559 set the order of prayer
Prayer

Prayer is the act of communicating with a deity or spirit in worship. Specific forms of this may include praise, requesting divine providence, confessing sins, as an act of reparation or an expression of one's emotional expression....
 to be used in the English Book of Common Prayer
Book of Common Prayer

The Book of Common Prayer is the common title of a number of prayer books of the Church of England and used throughout the Anglican Communion. The first book, published in 1549 , in the reign of Edward VI of England, was a product of the English Reformation following the break with Roman Catholic Church....
. Every man had to go to church once a week or be fined 12 pence (equivalent to just over £11 in 2007 ), a considerable sum for the poor. With this act Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I of England

Elizabeth I was List of English monarchs and Queen of Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the House of Tudor....
 made it a legal obligation to go to church every Sunday. The 'Act of Uniformity' reinforced the Book of Common Prayer. After passage, fourteen bishops
Bishops

Bishops can refer to:*The plural of bishop, a religious official*The plural of bishop , a chess piece*Diocesan College, South Africa*The Bishops, British band...
 were dismissed from their sees, and all the other sees, except Llandaff
Anthony Kitchin

Anthony Kitchin also known as Anthony Dunstone was a mid-16th century Abbot of Eynsham Abbey and Bishop of Llandaff in both the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England....
, were at the time vacant. As it was time to appoint a new Archbishop of Canterbury
Archbishop of Canterbury

The Archbishop of Canterbury is the chief bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the Diocesan Bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury, the Episcopal see that churches must be in communion with in order to be a part of the Anglican Communion....
, the question of how to obtain consecration and preserve the Apostolic Succession
Apostolic Succession

Apostolic Succession is the doctrine in some of the more ancient Christian communions that the succession of bishops, in uninterrupted lines, is historically traceable back to the original twelve Apostles Within Catholic Christianity it "is one of four elements which define the true Church of Jesus Christ" and legitimizes the existing sacr...
 unbroken arose. Llandaff refused to officiate at Matthew Parker
Matthew Parker

Matthew Parker was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1559 until his death in 1575. He was also an influential theologian and arguably the co-founder of Anglican theological thought....
's consecration and the solution would give rise many years later to the Nag's Head Fable
Nag's Head Fable

The Nag's Head Fable was a fiction which purported that Anglican Archbishop Matthew Parker was not consecrated solemnly, but instead was consecrated with a Bible laid on his head while inside the Nag's Head tavern....
.

The act made up part of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement
Elizabethan Religious Settlement

The Elizabethan Religious Settlement was Elizabeth I of England?s response to the religious divisions created over the reigns of Henry VIII of England, Edward VI of England and Mary I of England....
 in England instituted by Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I of England

Elizabeth I was List of English monarchs and Queen of Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the House of Tudor....
 who wanted to unify the Anglican Church. Other acts concerned with this settlement were the Act of Supremacy 1559
Act of Supremacy 1559

The Act of Supremacy 1559 was an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of England, passed under the auspices of Elizabeth I. It replaced the original Act of Supremacy 1534 issued by Elizabeth's father, Henry VIII of England, which arrogated ecclesiastical authority to the monarchy, and which had been repealed by Mary I of England....
 and the Thirty-Nine Articles
Thirty-Nine Articles

The Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion were established in 1563, and are the historic defining statements of Anglican doctrine in relation to the controversies of the English Reformation; especially in the relation of Calvinist doctrine and Roman Catholic practices to the nascent Anglican doctrine of the evolving English Church....
 (1563). Elizabeth was trying to achieve a settlement after thirty years of turmoil during the reigns of Henry VIII
Henry VIII of England

Henry VIII was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was also Lordship of Ireland and claimant to the Early Modern France. Henry was the second monarch of the House of Tudor, succeeding his father, Henry VII of England....
, Edward VI
Edward VI of England

Edward VI became List of English monarchs and King of Ireland on 28 January 1547 and was crowned on 20 February at the age of nine. The son of Henry VIII of England and Jane Seymour, Edward was the third monarch of the Tudor dynasty and England's first Protestantism ruler....
 and Mary I
Mary I of England

Mary I , was Queen of England and Monarchy of Ireland from 19 July 1553 until her death. The fourth crowned monarch of the Tudor dynasty, she is remembered for restoring England to Roman Catholicism after succeeding her short-lived half brother, Edward VI of England, to the English throne....
, in which England had swung from Catholicism
Catholicism

Catholicism is a broad term for the body of the Catholic faith, its Theology and doctrines, its Catholic liturgy, Ethics, spiritual, and behavioral characteristics, as well as a religious people as a whole....
 to Protestantism
Protestantism

Protestantism is a movement within Christianity that originated in the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation. It is considered to be one of the three principal traditions of Christianity, together with Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy....
 and back to Catholicism again. The outcome of the Elizabethan Settlement has been a sometimes tense and often fragile union of both Catholic and Protestant wings of the Church of England and Anglicanism world wide. The event was featured, albeit only briefly, in the movie Elizabeth
Elizabeth (film)

Elizabeth is a 1998 in film film loosely based on the early reign of Elizabeth I of England. The film was written by Michael Hirst and directed by Shekhar Kapur....
.

See also

  • Acts of Supremacy
  • Acts of Uniformity
    Act of Uniformity

    Over the course of English parliamentary history there were a number of acts of uniformity. All had the basic object of establishing some sort of religious orthodoxy within the English church....
  • Conformist
    Conformist

    In English history, Conformists were those whose Religion conformed with the requirements of the Act of Uniformity and so were in concert with the Established Church, the Church of England, as opposed to those of nonconformism whose practices were not acceptable to the Church of England....
  • Nonconformist
  • Religion in the United Kingdom
    Religion in the United Kingdom

    Religion in the United Kingdom is about the development of religion in the United Kingdom since its formation in 1707. The Treaty of Union that led to the formation of the United Kingdom ensured that there would be a protestant succession as well as a link between Separation of church and state that still remains....


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