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The churches in England from Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II (1996). Marshall, Peter. "(Re)defining the English Reformation," Journal of British Studies, July 2009, Vol. 48#3 pp. 564–586; Martin, Mary Clare. "Church, school and locality: Revisiting the historiography of 'state' and 'religious' educational infrastructures in England and Wales ...
After the establishment of the Church in England, many English missionaries became instrumental in the adoption of Christianity amongst other peoples in Northern Europe such as the Saxons and Scandinavians. [257] Saint Boniface also spent 6 years in Frisia in the early 8th century in an ultimately unsuccessful mission. [258]
Folio 3v from the St Petersburg Bede. The Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Latin: Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum), written by Bede in about AD 731, is a history of the Christian Churches in England, and of England generally; its main focus is on the growth of Christianity.
The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies. It is the mother church of the Anglican tradition , with foundational doctrines being contained in the Thirty-nine Articles and The Books of Homilies . [ 2 ]
It remained part of the Church of England until 1978, when the Anglican Church of Bermuda separated. The Church of England was the state religion in Bermuda and a system of parishes was set up for the religious and political subdivision of the colony (they survive, today, as both civil and religious parishes). Bermuda, like Virginia, tended to ...
The Christian church based its organisation on Roman provinces. The church in each city was led by a bishop, and the chief city of the province was led by a metropolitan bishop. [2] In 314, three British bishops attended the Council of Arles: Eborius from Eboracum (York), Restitutus from Londinium (London), and Adelfius from Lindum Colonia ...
Catholic, now Church of England: Early Anglo-Saxon church. Still in use. [53] All Saints' Church, Brixworth: Brixworth, Northamptonshire: England: before 675 Catholic, now Church of England: Early Anglo-Saxon church, with later additions. Still in use. [54] San Pedro de la Nave: El Campillo, San Pedro de la Nave-Almendra, Castile and León
John Blair put forward a description of the early Anglo-Saxon Christian church in England in a number of publications. [2] He believed that the organisation of the early church was based around minsters staffed by a community of clerics and providing spiritual services within a defined area (known as a parochia).