Once the Spanish Armada was defeated and England had been established as a Protestant state, there were many members of the Church of England—called Anglicans—who wanted to make over their church. Henry VIII had pulled England out of the Roman Catholic Church mainly in order to grant himself a divorce, and though there were other useful reasons to run a church through a state's government, the Church of England had no identity other than the mere fact of its not being a part of the Catholic world. Its masses, structure, and sacraments were all exactly the same as that of the Catholic Church. It merely had a different leader, the monarch of England. This fact led many Anglicans to believe that they needed to glorify God in the name of their victory over Spain by changing its doctrines and practices and to rid the Church of England of its Catholic elements. These people, Puritans, became the dominant political and social force in England in the seventeenth century, and thus, they also were a dominant force in the North American colonies.