The UK is generally seen as a Christian country even though it has citizens of many different religious beliefs. UK laws and traditions are broadly Christian in origin and parliament, when considering the making of new laws, tends to put a Christian emphasis on them (e.g. the recent legislation on same-sex marriage).
The Church of England is the established or state church of the UK. This means that the queen is the supreme governor of the Church, and the Church is linked to the state — it has a political role and performs a number of official functions. This all happened because King Henry VIII passed the Act of Succession and the Act of Supremacy to break away from the Roman Catholic Church. The acts made the king the ‘Supreme Head of the Church of England’.
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