What does Fid Def stand for?

Fidei Defensor (Latin: Defender of Faith)

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33) Henry VIII, who had been named fidei defensor by Leo X in February 1521, after he had written the Assertio septem sacramentorum to refute Luther's theses, can be assumed to have been even more open to an implicit invitation to amend religious abuses.

The defence of religious orthodoxy in John Heywood's The Pardoner and ...

late eminence Dr Tom Croke, Archbishop of Cashel and fidei defensor himself of the two great games of the Gaels.

The battle of Croke Park

Taking it further, the Government could declare us to be a secular country, withdraw support for the Church of England, and remove FD which stands for the title of Fidei Defensor (Defender of the Faith) from the monarch and coinage which is erroneous anyway, having been awarded to Henry VIII by the Pope for his defence of the Roman Catholic faith before he broke with Rome in 1534.

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