No, he's right. :>)
For what it's worth, non-Rome focused Christianity was alive and well in England PRIOR to Augustine. And I believe it was fairly independent afterwards up to the time of the Normans.
“For what it’s worth, non-Rome focused Christianity was alive and well in England PRIOR to Augustine. And I believe it was fairly independent afterwards up to the time of the Normans.”
Oh, I know; even later in Ireland. Up in Scotland there is a carving showing +Anthony the Great which is identical to a nearly contemporary one from Egypt which demonstrates the close connection between monastics up in Scotland in the 4/5th centuries and those who inhabited the Egyptian desert. Celtic Catholicism was VERY Orthodox/Eastern. Even some of the old religious folk stories and folkways are identical to this day in both Ireland and Greece, but show up nowhere else between, say, the Channel and the Adriatic. My mother always claimed that the Irish Church was really founded by a group of shipwrecked Greek monks!:)