Conformity to Row Established. Wilfrid, Theodore, Bede

Wilfrid expelled the Quartodeciman heresy and schism from Northumbria where the Scots introduced it through St. Aidan

Decided at a Synod in Whitby 664
Colman, the second successor of Aidan, defended the Scottish observance of Easter by the authority of St. Columba and the apostle John. Wilfrid argued the Roman observance on the authority of Peter in Rome and the universal custom of Christendom
- The king (Oswy and his son Alfrid) said that “I will not contradict the door-keeper, lest when I come to the gates of the kingdom of heaven, there should be none to open them.”

Theodore

native of Tarsus, educated in Athens, acquainted with Greek and Latin
He arrived at Cante;bury May 27,669 and visited to all of England, establishing the - Roman rule of Easter, settled bishops
Unjustly deposed Wilfrid of York
The first archbishop to whom the whole church of England submitted
Chief work is a “Penitential” with directions for moral and religious life, punishments for drunkenness, licentiousness, and other prevalent vices

Bede

The first native English scholar, the father of English theology and church history
Translated portions of the bible into Anglo-Saxon
Contemporary with Caedmon who wrote poetry and brought bible history into the Saxon imagination
- Bede/Caedmon is a similar pair to Wiclif/Chaucer

English conversion was nominal and ritual rather than intellectual and moral

The English became the most devoted to the Pope; they sent more pilgrims to Rome and more money to the papal treasury than any other nation
- Invented the Peter’s Pence
Nearly all public lands were deeded to churches and monasteries, but the monasticism weakened the military and physical forces of the nation…
- Danish and Norman conquests

List of the early archbishops and bishops of the four principal English sees, in the order of their foundation:

Canterbury

London

Rochester.

York

Augustin 597

Mellitus 604

Justus 604

Paulinus 625

Laurentius 604

[Cedd in Essex 654]

Romanus 624