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  2. History of Christianity in Britain - Wikipedia

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    A History of the Methodist Church in Great Britain (3 vol. Wipf & Stock, 2017). online; Gilley, Sheridan, and W. J. Sheils. A History of Religion in Britain: Practice and Belief from Pre-Roman Times to the Present (1994) 608pp excerpt and text search; Hastings, Adrian. A History of English Christianity: 1920-1985 (1986) 720pp a major scholarly ...

  3. Timeline of Christianity - Wikipedia

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    300 First Christians reported in Greater Khorasan; an estimated 10% of the world's population is now Christian; parts of the Bible are available in 10 different languages [52] 301 – Armenia is the first kingdom in history to adopt Christianity as state religion; 303–312 Diocletian's Massacre of Christians, includes burning of scriptures

  4. Timeline of official adoptions of Christianity - Wikipedia

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    c. 319 – Christianization of Iberia (Georgia) [3] [4] [5] c. 325 – Kingdom of Aksum (Ethiopian Orthodox Church) 337 – Roman Empire (baptism of Constantine I) 361 – Rome returns to paganism under Julian the Apostate; 364 – Rome returns to Christianity, specifically the Arian Church; c. 364 – Vandals (Arian Church)

  5. Catholic Church in England and Wales - Wikipedia

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    in the south, first through Kent and then spreading out to Wessex, the Gregorian mission of the late 6th century, when Pope Gregory the Great sent Augustine of Canterbury (at the time, Prior of the Abbey of St. Andrew or San Gregorio Magno al Celio) and 40 missionaries directly from Rome.

  6. Christianisation of Anglo-Saxon England - Wikipedia

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    The process of Christianisation and timing of the adoption of Christianity varied by region and was not necessarily a one-way process, with the traditional religion regaining dominance in most kingdoms at least once after their first Christian king. Kings likely often converted for political reasons such as the imposition by a more powerful ...

  7. History of Christianity - Wikipedia

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    Christianity had become an established minority faith in some parts of Britain in the second-century. [244] In the fifth century, migration led Anglo-Saxon forms of Germanic paganism to largely displace Christianity in south-eastern Britain. [245] The Gregorian mission in 597 led to the conversion of the first Anglo-Saxon king Æthelberht ...

  8. Christianity in the 1st century - Wikipedia

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    Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire occurred frequently over a period of over two centuries. For most of the first three hundred years of Christian history, Christians had to hide their faith and, practice their beliefs in secret and rise to positions of responsibility so they weren't killed. [205]

  9. Church of England - Wikipedia

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    In 2010, for the first time in the history of the Church of England, more women than men were ordained as priests (290 women and 273 men), [88] but in the next two years, ordinations of men again exceeded those of women. [89] In July 2005, the synod voted to "set in train" the process of allowing the consecration of women as bishops.