Bible versions

Bible versions
Question from Paul Peloquin on 5/7/2008:

The King James bible which Protestants use, refer to, when was it first translated and was it associated with a particular denomination? What are its strengths and weaknesses?
Answer by Fr. John Echert on 5/8/2008:

The KJV was the first English Bible published by the "Church" of England, which had broken from the Catholic Church under King Henry VIII; it was published in the early 1600's. It is called the King James Version because it bears the approval of the king of England at the time, which itself manifests the historical reality that the Church of England no longer recognized the Pope as supreme head of the Church. The first edition of the KJV included all the works of the Bible, as recognized by the Catholic Church, but subsequent editions manifest a more Protestant leaning, with the elimination of the so-called Deutero-Canonical works (Apocrypha, as titled by Protestants).

Thanks, Paul

Father Echert