When Pope Pious V issued a Papal bull excommunicating England’s Queen Elizabeth I on April 27, 1570, my guess is she really didn’t care. The edict said she was “a heretic and favorer of heretics”. The split of the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church (begun by her father Henry VIII) was complete when Elizabeth took the crown after the death of her half-sister “Bloody” Queen Mary I and the Church of England has been the official denomination ever since.
