Celtic Christianity is a form of Christianity that was common, or held to be common, across the Celtic-speaking world during the Early Middle Ages. Some writers have described a distinct Celtic Church uniting the See more

Connections with the greater Latin West brought the nations of Britain and Ireland into closer contact with the orthodoxy of the councils. The … See more

A number of other distinctive traditions and practices existed (or are taken to have existed) in Britain or Ireland, but are not known to have been in use across the entire region. … See more

People have conceived of "Celtic Christianity" in different ways at different times. Writings on the topic frequently say more about the time in which they originate than about the historical state of Christianity in the early medieval Celtic-speaking world See more

Corning writes that scholars have identified three major strands of thought that have influenced the popular conceptions of Celtic … See more

Britain
According to medieval traditions, Christianity arrived in Britain in the 1st century. Gildas's 6th-century account dated its arrival to … See more

Caitlin Corning identifies four customs that were common to both the Irish and British churches but not used elsewhere in the Christian world. See more