The reign of the English King Henry VIII saw the end of the power of the Monastic Order. It was Henry through the administration of Thomas Cromwell who brought about their demise and seized their great wealth for the Crown in what was understood to be an often violent and bloody campaign.
Now almost five centuries later, the now Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Justin Welby, is expected to become the Anglican Primate, who will supervise communities of Monks and Nuns with legal recognition of their organisations, when this is completed in the Spring of 2020. Which will reinstate as many as eighty semi-official religious groups back as full members of the Anglican Family.
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