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It's true that he incorporated some Eastern influences in his Book of Common Prayer, but he was also Zwinglian in his theology and did not believe in the Eucharist as the body and blood of Jesus Christ. There's a very good book written by a British author (I think he's Catholic), "Cranmer's Godly Order" about Bishop cranmer and how the reform was performed in England.

Dear Snoopy,

Cranmer was more Protestant than King Henry VIII - and the latter can only be called a "schismatic Roman Catholic" who believed in all Catholic doctrines, save for the papacy, until his death.

But the Book of Common Prayer has largely been accepted by the Western Rites of Orthodoxy, with some minor modifications and some Orthodox additions.

It continues to be a beautiful source of liturgical prayers and represented an ingenius way by which the laity were enabled to pray and read the Scriptures within a simplified liturgical context, much as St Benedict himself had previously envisioned.

Alex