Talk by Brian Creese

The standard Christian history of England sees the once pagan island converted by St Augustine – a triumph for the Church of Rome. The reality,
however, was rather more complex.

Brian will look at how the independent Christian tradition of Celtic Christianity didn’t answer to Rome and how it survived the fall of the Empire. You will learn about the conflict between these two competing strands of Christianity and eventually how things came to a head at the Synod of Whitby in 664.

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