Talk:History of Christianity in Britain

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Shouldn't some mention be made of Polish Catholic, African Protestant and Eastern Orthodox immigrants bringing their religion to the UK, in each case bucking the more general secular trends? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 36.11.225.19 (talk) 08:00, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

The Celtic Christians

The English were already Christians before the Catholics came. The Catholics called anyone, regardless of whether they were Christian, or not, pagans. The Christians of early England were more akin to Arians, and so were to the Catholics Pagans, but to us they would be protestants. The idea that early Christianity in England has been discredited has no foundation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.15.50.51 (talk • contribs) 19:09, 26 June 2020 (UTC) The person who is sourced as discrediting the reality of the English being Christians before being Catholics was a Catholic. They did this everywhere they went. France was also Christian before it became Catholic, but is listed in the Catholic histories as being Pagan, because they were more akin to the Arians as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.15.50.51 (talk • contribs) 19:12, 26 June 2020 (UTC) Gerald of Wales was a Catholic Deacon and so cannot be trusted as a source. The Catholics did not want anyone to know that most of the people they called pagans were actually Christians who had converted later to the Catholic Church. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.15.50.51 (talk • contribs) 19:14, 26 June 2020 (UTC) According to medieval traditions, Christianity arrived in Britain in the 1st or 2nd century. Gildas's 6th-century account dated its arrival to the latter part of the reign of the Roman emperor Tiberius. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.15.50.51 (talk • contribs) 19:16, 26 June 2020 (UTC) However, as the Catholic Church was not invented for hundreds of years after that then the Christians who were not Catholic were considered to be pagans before their conversion.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.15.50.51 (talk • contribs) 19:18, 26 June 2020 (UTC) The archaeologist Audrey Meaney concluded that there exists "very little undoubted evidence for Anglo-Saxon paganism."— Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.15.50.51 (talk • contribs) 19:31, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

We read that Wilfrid is given full responsibility for the victory of the Roman faction in the Synod of Whitby, his great triumph over the Gaelic monks. The Vita, Wifred's main work on the 'pagans' perhaps mirroring the views of Wilfrid himself, is contemptuous of the Gaelic contribution, the "poisonous seeds" they planted, to the development of the Northumbrian and English church, and thus discredits Lindisfarne and the other English monasteries associated with them. However, the fact remains that they were just not Catholics.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.15.50.51 (talk • contribs) 19:35, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

If Christianity did arrive in England during the reign of Tiberias then it is likely that the people who came to England were sent there by Jesus himself while he was still alive.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.15.50.51 (talk • contribs) 19:45, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

Britain

Should the title move to "Great Britain"? While "Britain" is a short form of Great Britain, when used generally it can also mean the United Kingdom, of which this article does not fully discuss. Therefore for clarity should this move to "Great Britain"? DankJae 19:41, 25 March 2023 (UTC)