Christianity has a long and formal history with Britain. Christianity arrived in the British Isles in 47 A.D., according to sixth century cleric St. Gildas in his work De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae. Saint Augustine of Canterbury, a Benedictine monk, began his ministry to England in 597 when he formally established the Church of England. Nearly 1,000 years later, Henry VIII was pronounced the head of the Church of England by the 1534 Act of Supremacy.
Much has changed, of course, since the
Christianity has a long and formal history with Britain. Christianity arrived in the British Isles in 47 A.D., according to sixth century cleric St. Gildas in his work De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae. Saint Augustine of Canterbury, a Benedictine monk, began his ministry to England in 597 when he formally established the Church of England. Nearly 1,000 years later, Henry VIII was pronounced the head of the Church of England by the 1534 Act of Supremacy.
Much has changed, of course, since the…
