Drake viewed the Roman Catholic Church as a false church administered by Antichrist

Evidence

The earliest evidence, from the 1560s, shows that Drake’s religious convictions were not only deep but extreme and uncompromising. In time he would find himself a spiritual home among the Elizabethan Puritans, for to Drake the Roman Church was not merely corrupted by the excrescences of the centuries and in need of reform; it was a false church, administered, as he said, by Antichrist, and fit only to be eschewed and condemned. — John Sugden, Sir Francis Drake, 56

Categorization

• XREF: XREF: Elizabethan Puritanism — connects to: Medieval Christians identified Muhammad with Behemoth, Leviathan, and the Antichrist; In colonial America, many Protestants associated Islam and Catholicism with the Antichrist. Indeed, Prideaux related the rise of Muhammad and the bishop of Rome’s claim to reign over all churches. Hence, the ‘Antichrist seems at this time to have set both his Feet upon Christendom together, the one in the East, and the other in the West.’; Prideaux related the rise of Muhammad and the bishop of Rome’s claim to reign over all churches. Hence, the “Antichrist seems at this time to have set both his Feet upon Christendom together, the one in the East, and the other in the West.” (+1 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — John Sugden, Sir Francis Drake, 56