Who was the first English king given the title Defender of the Faith?
Defender of the Faith was regarded as an attack on "the Faith") and Henry was excommunicated. However, in 1544, the Parliament of England conferred the title ""Defender of the Faith"" on King Henry VIII and his successors, now the defenders of the Anglican faith, of which they (except the Catholic Mary I) remain the Supreme Governors (formally above the Archbishop of Canterbury as Primate). King James V of Scotland was granted the title of Defender of the Faith by Pope Paul III on 19 January 1537, symbolizing the hopes of the papacy that the King of Scots would resist the path that his uncle,
Defender of the Faith Defender of Faith, not "the" Faith", and clarified in 2015 that "while at the same time being Defender of the Faith you can also be protector of faiths". In 1811, when he proclaimed himself king, Henri I of Haiti awarded himself the title, ""Défenseur de la Foi"", and incorporated it into his full style, which translates from the French original as: By the grace of God and the constitutional law of the state, King of Haiti, Sovereign of Tortuga, Gonâve and other adjacent Islands, Destroyer of Tyranny, Regenerator and Benefactor of the Haitian Nation, Creator of her Moral, Political and