<P> It is found for example in Colossians 1.18, Colossians 2.19, Ephesians 4.15 and Ephesians 5.23 . </P> <P> In Roman Catholic ecclesiology, Jesus is called the Invisible Head, while the Pope is called the Visible Head . Therefore, the Pope is often called the Vicar of Christ . Roman Catholic theology claims a close collaboration between christology and ecclesiology . </P> <P> At the time of the English Reformation, Henry VIII took for himself the title of Supreme Head of the Church of England, which was theologically problematic; his daughter Elizabeth I changed this to Supreme Governor of the Church of England . </P> <P> The Presbyterian system, codified in the Westminster Standards, outlines teaching elders (Ministers) and ruling elders, and courts presided over by Moderators sitting "primus inter pares", and gives practical effect to the concept of the equal status of all believers behind the one and only head of the church - Jesus Christ . This gives rise to the famous (or infamous) section of the Westminster Confession of Faith that says in its 25th Chapter entitled "The Church", article 6: "There is no other head of the Church but the Lord Jesus Christ . Nor can the Pope of Rome, in any sense, be head thereof: but is that Antichrist, that man of sin, and son of perdition, that exalteth himself, in the Church, against Christ and all that is called God ." </P>

Who was the head of the catholic church