page_title: List of cultural icons of England
section_title: Religion
hierarchical_section_title: List of cultural icons of England / Religion
caption_attribution_description: English: Becket's death Čeština: Beckettova smrt
context_page_description: This list of cultural icons of England is a list of people and things from any period which are independently considered to be cultural icons characteristic of England.
context_section_description: Pope Adrian IV (Nicholas Breakspear, c.?1100 – 1159); the only English Pope, 1154–1159.
  Saint Alban (died c. 209–305 A.D.); first recorded British Christian martyr.
  Anselm of Canterbury (c. 1033 – 1109); Archbishop of Canterbury, 1093–1109.
  Archbishop of Canterbury, senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England.
  Augustine of Canterbury (6th century), first Archbishop of Canterbury in 597 A.D.
  Thomas Becket (c. 1120–1170), Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his murder in 1170; venerated as saint and martyr by both Catholic Church and Anglican Communion; engaged in conflict with Henry II over rights and privileges of the Church and was murdered by followers of the king in Canterbury Cathedral; canonised soon after by Pope Alexander III.
  The Venerable Bede (672/673-735); his Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum earned him the title "The Father of English History".
  Church of England, from 6th to 16th century  in full communion with the See of Rome; the English Reformation saw a break from the authority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church.
  Fidei defensor or "Defender of the Faith", a subsidiary title of English and later British monarchs since granted in 1521 by Pope Leo X to King Henry VIII.
  Julian of Norwich (c. 1342 – c. 1416), English anchoress and important Christian mystic and theologian.
  Thomas More (1478–1535), venerated by Catholics as Saint Thomas More (canonised 1535); author of Utopia (1516); his story is told in A Man for All Seasons (1966).
  Cardinal Newman (1801–1890), beatified in 2010.
  Post-Reformation oaths: English churchmen and others were required to assent to religious changes starting in the 16th century and continuing for more than 250 years.
  Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, culmination of the process of Catholic Emancipation.
  The Salvation Army, founded by Catherine and William Booth, 1865.
  John Wesley (1703–1791) and Charles Wesley (1707–1788), founders of Methodism.
caption: Martyrdom of Thomas Becket
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