What Is The Celtic Church?
Some historians dispute the idea that we can even talk about a Celtic Church. It was not an organization separate from the larger Christian community of its day (later to be known as the Roman Catholic Church), more a movement within the larger church. The term is used to describe the earliest native form of Christianity in the islands of Britain and Ireland, extending to the Celtic region of Brittany in France. It dates from the time of the exodus of the Roman legions from Britain in the early 5th century up to the gradual amalgamation of the Celtic stream with the larger Roman Catholic Church after the Synod of Whitby (664). It continued to exist in Scotland and Ireland, but in a weakened form, and was finally disbanded, in Scotland at least, by Queen Margaret around 1080. Its roots can be traced from the Desert Fathers and Mothers, who pioneered monastic communities in the Eastern part of the Roman Empire, through Martin of Tours, who about 360 established this model of monastic com
Some historians dispute the idea that we can even talk about a Celtic Church. It was not an organization separate from the larger Christian community of its day (later to be known as the Roman Catholic Church), more a movement within the larger church. The term is used to describe the earliest native form of Christianity in the islands of Britain and Ireland, extending to the Celtic region of Brittany in France. It dates from the time of the exodus of the Roman legions from Britain in the early 5th century up to the gradual amalgamation of the Celtic stream with the larger Roman Catholic Church after the Synod of Whitby (664). It continued to exist in Scotland and Ireland, but in a weakened form, and was finally disbanded, in Scotland at least, by Queen Margaret around 1080. Its roots can be traced from the Desert Fathers and Mothers, who pioneered monastic communities in the Eastern part of the Roman Empire, through Martin of Tours, who about 360 established this model of monastic com
