| From
and for all eternity |
Jesus
Christ |
 |
Head
of the Church;
Matthew 16:13-20
|
| 33 |
The
Birth of the Church |
|
Acts
2:1-4, 42-27 |
| 35 |
Priscilla,
Aquilla and Apollos |
|
Acts
18:2, 18, 24-26 |
| 44 |
Roman
conquest of Britain. |
 |
Christianity
arrives around this time. Glastonbury is inhabited during these years,
and old tradition remembers Christians here. |
| 64 |
Peter
and Paul |
 
|
martyred
|
| 100 |
Apostolic
Fathers and the Apostles' Creed |
 |
A
new generation of leaders succeeds the apostles. The Apostles' Creed,
said to have taken one section from each of the original apostles, is
developed to combat Gnosticism. |
| 155 |
Polycarp |
v |
Martyrdom
of 84-year-old bishop |
| 209 |
Alban |
|
England
- Martyrdom of St. Alban, a Roman soldier who offered shelter to a
Christian missionary from Gaul. The place of his martyrdom later becomes
St. Alban's.
|
| 210 |
Origen,
Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria |
|
North
Africa a key Christian center. Carthage and Alexandria leading centers
of Christian theological development with such figures as Origen,
Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria. |
| 223 |
Callistus |
|
A
former slave--actually becomes bishop of Rome and makes claims for
special importance of the Roman bishop. Martyred. |
| 300 |
Anthony |
|
Anthony
goes into desert as a hermit, an important early step in development of
monasticism--which will be a kind of protest movement against worldly
Christianity and an alternative approach to spiritual commitment. |
| 312 |
Constantine |
 |
Christianity
becomes the official religion of the Roman Empire. Britons are largely
Christianized. |
| 314 |
Council
of Arles |
|
Britain
sends three bishops, a priest, and a deacon. |
| 325 |
Council
of Nicea |
|
The
Nicene creed and the council's decisions are accepted in Britain.
|
| 341 |
Bishop
Eusebius of Caesarea |
|
Dies.
He becomes the first significant church historian and gives us
invaluable documentation on the early church. |
| 386 |
Augustine
|
 |
Converted.
He would become one of the most important theologians in all of church
history. |
| 397 |
New
Testament |
|
Canon
of New Testament confirmed. These do not create the Christian scriptures
but confirm what was already generally recognized and accepted. |
| 432 |
Patrick |
|
An
Englishman from a clerical family and himself an escaped Irish slave,
returns to Ireland as bishop. Patrick organizes, evangelizes, helps the
poor, confronts the druid sorcerers, and earns both respect and
political power. |
| 500 |
Arthur
|
 |
Britons
win a victory at Badon Hill under one Artorus. "Arthur" later
becomes the model of a Christian king. |
| 543 |
Benedict |
 |
Dies.
Responding to growing secularization of the church, Benedict of Nursia
establishes monastery of Monte Cassino and the Benedictine Order.
Benedict's "Rule" for monks will become the most influential
over future centuries. |
| 597 |
Augustine
of Canterbury |
 |
Augustine,
first archbishop of Canterbury, another Benedictine, arrives in Kent.
Gregory authorizes Augustine to develop liturgy and other practices
especially for the English-speaking people, thus beginning the Anglican
church tradition. |
| 604 |
Laurentius |
|
Second archbishop of
Canterbury |
| 619 |
Mellitus |
|
Third archbishop of
Canterbury |
| 624 |
Justus |
|
Fourth archbishop of
Canterbury. He helped Augustine in his ecclesiastical government, and
after Augustine's death joined Archbishop Laurentius and Mellitus in
writing to the Scottish bishops and abbots to urge them to conform to the
Roman usages. |
| 627 |
Honorius |
|
Fifth archbishop of
Canterbury |
| 655 |
Deusdedit |
|
Sixth archbishop of
Canterbury. Deusdedit was the first Saxon Archbishop of Canterbury. |
| 668 |
Theodore
of Tarsus |
 |
Ordained
seventh archbishop of Canterbury, establishes boundaries of dioceses. England is
now a Christian nation, and paganism has been driven underground (as
witchcraft). Bede specifically mentions, "the first archbishop whom
all the English obeyed". |
| 690 |
Kilian
and Willibrord |
 |
Two
Anglo-Saxon bishops carry on extensive evangelistic mission on the
continent among the Franks. |
| 693 |
Berhtwald |
|
Eighth
archbishop of Canterbury. Correspondent of with Saint Boniface,
Saint Aldhelm, and Saint Wilfrid. |
| 716 |
Boniface
(Wynfrid) |
 |
Englishman,
begins his career as missionary. He is the most effective evangelist in
Germany. |
| 731 |
Bede
("the Venerable") |
 |
Historian
and doctor of the church, completes his Ecclesiastical History of the
English People. This is the work that popularized the Anno Domini system
for dating events. |
| 731 |
Tatwine |
|
Ninth archbishop of
Canterbury. Well-respected by Bede. |
| 735 |
Nothelm |
|
10th archbishop of
Canterbury |
| 740 |
Cuthbert |
|
11th archbishop of
Canterbury |
| 761 |
Bregowine |
|
12th archbishop of
Canterbury |
| 765 |
Jaenbert |
|
13th archbishop of
Canterbury |
| 793 |
Ethelhard |
|
14th archbishop of
Canterbury |
| 796 |
Alcuin |
 |
English
deacon and agent of Charlemagne, becomes Abbot of Tours. Alcuin
introduces Collect for Purity and the organized copying of manuscripts. |
| 805 |
Wulfred |
|
15th
archbishop of Canterbury |
| 816 |
Pope
Leo III |
  |
Dies.
Iconoclastic controversy over the veneration of images divides the
Byzantine Emperor and the Pope. |
| 832 |
Feologeld |
|
16th archbishop of
Canterbury |
| 833 |
Ceolnoth |
|
17th archbishop of
Canterbury |
| 870 |
Ethelred |
|
18th archbishop of
Canterbury |
| 888 |
Alfred
the Great |
 |
King
of Wessex in England. Translated Christian writings into the language of
the common people. |
| 890 |
Plegmund |
|
19th archbishop of
Canterbury. Tutor of King Alfred the Great. |
| 914 |
Athelm |
|
20th archbishop of
Canterbury |
| 923 |
Wulfhelm |
|
21st archbishop of
Canterbury |
| 942 |
St.
Oda the Severe |
|
22nd archbishop of
Canterbury |
| 959 |
Brithelm |
|
23rd archbishop of
Canterbury |
| 959 |
Aelfsige |
|
24th archbishop of
Canterbury |
| 960 |
Dunstan |
 |
Metal-working
saint becomes 25th Archbishop of Canterbury.
|
| 988 |
Ethelgar |
|
26th archbishop of
Canterbury |
| 990 |
Sigeric |
|
27th archbishop of
Canterbury |
| 995 |
Aelfric |
|
28th archbishop of
Canterbury |
| 1005 |
Alphege |
|
29th archbishop of
Canterbury |
| 1013 |
Lyfing |
|
30th archbishop of
Canterbury |
| 1020 |
St.
Ethelnoth
the Good |
|
31st archbishop of
Canterbury |
| 1038 |
Eadsige |
|
32nd archbishop of
Canterbury |
| 1052 |
Robert
of Jumieges |
|
33rd archbishop of
Canterbury |
| 1052 |
Stigand |
|
34th archbishop of
Canterbury |
| 1070 |
Lanfranc |
|
William
of Normandy conquers England, appointing Lanfranc 35th Archbishop of
Canterbury. Lanfranc reorganizes and reforms the English church. |
| 1093 |
Anselm |
|
Anselm
succeeds Lanfranc as 36th Archbishop of Canterbury in 1093. Wrote Why Did God
Become a Man? explaining the reasons for Christ's death. |
| 1114 |
Ralph
d'Escures |
|
37th
archbishop of Canterbury |
| 1123 |
William
de Corbeil |
|
38th
archbishop of Canterbury |
| 1139 |
Theobald |
|
39th
archbishop of Canterbury, encouraged the study of Roman law in
England |
| 1162 |
Thomas
a Becket |
|
40th
archbishop of Canterbury |
| 1173 |
Waldensians |
 |
Waldensian
movement begins in Lyons, seeking truth in Bible rather than medieval
tradition. The church persecutes these devout believers sometimes seen
as predecessors of Protestant reform. |
| 1174 |
Richard
(of Dover) |
|
41st archbishop of
Canterbury |
| 1184 |
Baldwin |
|
42nd archbishop of
Canterbury |
| 1193 |
Hubert
Walter |
|
43rd archbishop of
Canterbury |
| 1205 |
Stephen
Langton |
|
The
bishop of Rome appoints Stephen Langton 44th archbishop of Canterbury. King
John will not allow him to enter England. (Langton is the man who made
today's division of the books of the Bible into chapters.) |
| 1220 |
Salisbury
Cathedral |
|
The order of
service here will be the model for Cranmer's Book of Common Prayer.
According to legend a bowman was
ordered by Bishop Herbert Poore (1194 - 1217), to fire an arrow from the
ramparts of Old Sarum. Where the arrow fell would be the site of the new
Cathedral. The arrow hit the stag who, mortally wounded, ran on to fall
dead in Marysfield. Where it died this Cathedral was built. |
| 1229 |
Richard
le Grant |
|
45th archbishop of
Canterbury |
| 1234 |
Edmund
of Abingdon |
|
46th archbishop of
Canterbury |
| 1245 |
Boniface
of Savoy |
|
47th archbishop of
Canterbury |
| 1273 |
Robert
Kilwardby |
|
48th archbishop of
Canterbury, a Dominican |
| 1279 |
John
Peckham |
|
49th archbishop of
Canterbury |
| 1294 |
Robert
Winchelsey |
|
50th archbishop of
Canterbury |
| 1313 |
Walter
Reynolds |
|
51st archbishop of
Canterbury |
| 1328 |
Simon
Meopham |
|
52nd archbishop of
Canterbury |
| 1333 |
John
de Stratford |
|
53rd archbishop of
Canterbury. A doctor of civil and canon law, he was a legal adviser to the
court of Edward II. |
| 1349 |
Thomas
Bradwardine |
|
54th archbishop of
Canterbury, theologian and mathematician. |
| 1349 |
Simon
Islip |
|
55th archbishop of
Canterbury, doctor in canon and civil law. |
| 1366 |
Simon
Langham |
|
56th archbishop of
Canterbury, Treasurer of England, Bishop of Ely and Chancellor. |
| 1368 |
William
Whittlesey |
|
57th archbishop of
Canterbury |
| 1372 |
Dame
Julian of Norwich |
 |
Dame
Julian of Norwich has a series of mystical experiences; writes of them
in "Revelations of Divine Love". ("And all shall be well,
and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.") |
| 1375 |
Simon
Sudbury |
|
58th
archbishop of Canterbury. In 1380 became Lord Chancellor and died a
year later in a peasant uprising. |
| 1381 |
William
Courtenay |
|
59th archbishop of
Canterbury |
