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I have graded the importance of these articles as follows: High Importance Catholicism Project and High importance Anglicanism project. Reasoning:

Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries – obstensibly to rid the Kingdom of corrupt priests and monks – but mainly because he wanted the money for himself. Regardless, the dissolution saw the effective end of Papal authority in England. Henry was already Head of the Church of England, but the dissolution acted as a visual national confirmation that Papal authority over Royal Supremacy would no longer be tolerated.

The same visual national confirmation saw the rise of Anglicanism in England. Although a complete church settlement did not appear until the next generation, the dissolution of the monasteries scared clergymen into conversions. The leanings of Henry's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, gave strength to the rise of Anglicanism; the dissolution had been organised by he himself.