Simplify the following text for a Grade 8 native English-speaking person.
Original: Each ( regional church ) was the official church of one of the states of Germany while the respective ruler was the church 's formal head ( e.g. the King of Prussia headed the Evangelical Church of Prussia 's older Provinces as supreme governor ) , similar to the British monarch 's role in the Church of England .
Simplified: The Evangelical Church in Germany is not a church like the Church of England , or the Roman Catholic Church .