when did England BECOME A CHRISTIAN COUNTRY?

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A REAL DATE IN HISTORY

Answer 1

When Gregory the Great converted it beginning around 600 AD. It did not take place in a single year, however. It took 300-400 years for England to become fully Christianized. And even then it retained several Celtic traditions (which we still have today, such as Halloween).

Answer 2

This is quite complex. It was somewhat Christianized in the 4th and 5th centuries, but with the invasion and settlement of Angle, Saxon and Jute peoples, it mostly reverted to pagan religious practices.

Ireland, which had been Christianized in the fifth century, sent missionaries to England in the sixth. In 563, Columba, an Irish monk, set up the first monastery on Iona in Scotland, and from there Celtic (that is, Irish) monasticism spread to England and beyond to the continent.

Not long after Columba, Pope Gregory I in 596 sent Augustine (later known as Augustine of Canterbury) to southeast England (Kent) to Christianize the Anglo-Saxons in the Roman tradition.

So throughout the late sixth and seventh centuries there was a competition between Celtic and Roman Christianity. They were in some ways quite different from one another. As one of your other posters noted, the Council at Whitby (664) helped to insure the success of Roman Christianity and unified belief and practice in England.

Cheers.

Answer 3

See 'The Synod of Whitby, England, (real date) CE 664
in which it was decided that Britain should follow the customs of Rome, and not the native Celtic church.

Eddius Stephanus

Answer 4

In 392 when christian religion was proclaimed official religion of the Roman Empire (and England was part of it considering is south of the Adriano´s Wall, Roman Empire´s limit in Great Britain Island).

Answer 5

when we joined in 300 to 500 ad

Answer 6

Don't worry about this. We've just about grown out of it now.

Answer 7

There isn't really any specific date

I wouldn't trust anyone that lists wikipedia as a source.

Answer 8

685.