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When Did Celtic Catholicism Become Incorporated Into the Roman Catholic Church?
Question by Samian’s Sixth Account: When did Celtic Catholicism become incorporated into the Roman Catholic Church?
I was a bit curious as to a bit of Irish history…so in ancient times, Ireland wasn’t yet a part of the Church in Rome, and had its own Celtic Catholic Church? Or was Celtic Catholicism always a part of Roman Catholicism in general?
Could someone please help clear this bit of history up?
Best answer:
Answer by guavajellyfish
Celtic Catholicism? Roman Catholicism essentially IS “the church;” they converted the pagan Celts to Christianity, meaning Catholicism, meaning Roman Catholicism– that’s all the church there was back then.
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Probably around when Rome conquered what is now Great Britain.
Henry II had to make nice to the Church after he had Thomas A Beckett killed, so he promised Pope Adrian that he’d bring Ireland back in line with the Church proper. So in 1169, he invaded with his Norman/British soldiers …. bringing with him Feudalism and thus putting an end to the Brehon system.
I don’t think there is such a thing as “Celtic Catholicism.”
The Catholic Church went around converting all the heathens/pagans. The Celts had a full set of pagan gods. In order to convert them, the Church had to give their gods credence (they did this everywhere, btw, including the New World), so they took those gods, the most important ones, and told the people that they were “Saints”, and the people, by and large, accepted this over time, so you have Saint Patrick and Saint Brigid, and Saint, oh, I don’t know…Alouishus (I know that isn’t spelled right, but I think he was Irish, too).
In the New World, they simply told the people that the Corn Goddess, the Highest Deity in the American Southwest, all the way through the Mayan territories was Mary…and they eventually accepted that, too…well, some did.
Yeah, Catholic Church is a true original.
Early Irish Christians had some practices that were not in line with the teachings of the church, among them would have been baptising children in milk, there were multiple bishoprics were set up in line with tribal boundaries, high positions in the church were passed throught he family rather then through normal lines of succession as well as the buying & selling of positions and of course there was good old fashioned thieving of assets from monasteries. The monasteries also tended to have a bigger say over how things were run then the Church.
Starting with Synod of Rathbreasil in 1118 they started to bring Ireland into line with the rest of the Church. Starting with re-drawing the diocisean map & reducing the number of bishoprics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rathbreasail
It was followed by 3 other Synods.
As Orla C has pointed out Pope Adrian made Henry II ‘Lord of Ireland’ and he promised to make us behave ourselves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laudabiliter