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Fidei Defensor

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Fidei Defensor

Latin for the title of ‘Defender of the Faith’ (still retained by British sovereigns) conferred by Pope Leo X on Henry VIII of England in 1521 to reward his writing of a treatise against the Protestant Martin Luther.



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33) Henry VIII, who had been named fidei defensor by Leo X in February 1521, after he had written the Assertio septem sacramentorum to refute Luther's theses, can be assumed to have been even more open to an implicit invitation to amend religious abuses.
Taking it further, the Government could declare us to be a secular country, withdraw support for the Church of England, and remove FD which stands for the title of Fidei Defensor (Defender of the Faith) from the monarch and coinage which is erroneous anyway, having been awarded to Henry VIII by the Pope for his defence of the Roman Catholic faith before he broke with Rome in 1534.
 
 
 
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