Capitolo 84
The most perfect portrait of the monastic life and the first English
Christianity that we possess is that drawn for us in the life and
jobs of Baeda. Before giving some account, however of I squirt him/it that
he has left each other, it will be necessary to shortly follow the course of
events in the church English during the few years that he interposes.
The Church of England in its form that exists owes its organisation to a
Greek monk. In 667, Oswiu of Northumbria and Ecgberht in Kent, in order
to bring their dominoes in the nearest connection with Rome, united in
Wigheard that sends the priest to the pope that is probable that he is sanctified
Archbishop of Canterbury. Any English had still held that office, and
the choice can be considered a symptom of the growth in the native Church.
But Wigheard died in Rome, and the pope gathered the occasion to
you consecrate an archbishop in the Roman interest. His/her skin of first quality on one
Theodore, a monk of Tarsus in Cilicia of what in the orders was the
Oriental church. However, the pope was particular that Theodore you/he/she owes
"you don't introduce anything I cross to the truth of the faith in the
Church on which he was to preside." Theodore accepted Roman orders and
the Roman tonsure, and it put out for his/her province, where he arrived later
various adventures on the way. His king-organisation of the young Church
it was complete and systematic. Originally England had been separated in
seven great dioceses, corresponding to the principal kingdoms (safe only
he/she anchors the pagan Sussex), and having them sees in their principal cities--East
and Kent Di the west, to Canterbury and Rochester; Essex, to London; Wessex, to
Dorchester or Winchester; Northumbria, to York; East Anglia, to
Dunwich; and Mercia, to Lichfield. The Scottish diocese of Lindisfarne
coincided with Bernicia. Theodore divided these great dioceses in
smaller one; East Anglia had two, for his/her north and people of south to
Elmham and Dunwich; Bernicia was separated between Lindisfarne and Hexham;
Lincolnshire had his sees envoy to Sidnacester; and the make up for-kingdoms of