The Catholic Church was founded in Jerusalem in the year 36A.D. by Jesus Christ. There was only one Christian Church from the year 36A.D. to 1054A.D., and that was the Catholic Church (after the Protestant Reformation it was known as the Roman Catholic Church). In 1054A.D. the Orthodox and Catholic Church's fell into schism with each other, and it would still be over 500 years until the beginning of the Protestant Reformation.
Ireland and Scotland and to a great extent England followed Christianity for centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire, and the Catholicisation (control by the Pope and adoption of Catholic dates and practices) of the islands was resisted for well over a thousand years.
I take it from that comment that you do not believe Catholics are Christian. If that is true, than you are either really ignorant or really stupid. Do you even know what year the Roman Empire fell? The year is traditionally placed at 476A.D. You wrote St. Patrick started conversions in the year 405A.D. That is completely impossible, especially if the were "Christian for centuries after the fall of Rome" Christianity simply did not spread that far, that fast, and according to the provided dates, it is completely illogical.
The Pope sent Palladius to convert the Irish to Catholicism and the Christians drove him out....Patrick's statue shows him in priest's robes and a fish-mouth hat. That's Catholic revisionism, too.
Seriously, are you retarded?
I suggest you lay off the bigoted sources that you are exposed to, if you even posses the intellectual capability and aptitude to educate yourself this subject matter, before you throw garbage like this out there and go up against someone like myself who knows their history.
The Catholic Church was founded in Jerusalem in the year 36A.D. by Jesus Christ. There was only one Christian Church from the year 36A.D. to 1054A.D., and that was the Catholic Church (after the Protestant Reformation it was known as the Roman Catholic Church). In 1054A.D. the Orthodox and Catholic Church's fell into schism with each other, and it would still be over 500 years until the beginning of the Protestant Reformation.
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Hundreds of millions of us find this to be a wholesale rewriting of history as it actually happened into something that fits a rather successful political maneuver within the generic Christian church of the time. The Bishop of Rome won a political battle, vs an anointing.
He's drawing on Anglican belief. English Protestants have some bizarre belief in a "pre-Catholic" Christianity. Sorry, but there was no such thing. The only church in England was united with Rome - and had the disputes that all local bishops and churches had with Rome - until Henry VIII came along. In any case, any church that is willing to accept Prince Charles as its head (even "temporal head," as some keep insisting) is in serious trouble.
Well said!!