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Henry VIII:
King of England when the reformation of the Church of England began. He was not a reformer himself. The pope gave him the title "Defender of the Faith" for a book he wrote in defense of the Seven Sacraments.
He had great marital trouble which made it possible for English reformers
to use that to secure independence from Rome. However, when his daughter, Mary Tudor (Bloody Mary) became queen, she took the Church of England back under the pope and Cardinal Pole absolved the 'kneeling parliament' for their rebellion. It was under Elizabeth I that the Church of England finally severed connection with the Church of Rome.
It is sometimes said that Henry VIII founded the Church of England, which is
wrong, since the Church of England had existed as the Celtic Church since the second century and did not come under papal authority until the Council of Whitby in 1664.
The recovery of the gospel and the Bible by the English people and
not the selfish purposes of any monarch was the reason for the reformation in England. The hundreds of millions of Anglicans since the Reformation have had no consciousness of being 'founded' by Henry or even an admiration for him.
House of Bishops:
All the bishops of the Episcopal Church sitting as a legislative and judiciary body of the Church.
House of Deputies:
The lay and presbyter (ordained clergy) delegates to a general convention sitting as a legislative body. Each diocese sends a delegation of deputies; half are clergy and half
are lay persons.
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