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Anonymous03/14/26, 00:19No.18387668
It's that time of the year again. Is it true the British Isles were Orthodox before the Norman Invasion?
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Anon03/14/26, 01:00No.18387722
No, though they were considerably less Popish by any modern sense of the word
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Anon03/14/26, 01:02No.18387724
monks over there were preserving all the latin and western stuff
what makes you think it was of the east?
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Anon03/14/26, 01:09No.18387729
Before the Norman Conquests, the British Isles were non-denominational. The Great Schism hadn't fucking happened yet. Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and even Jerusalem all belonged to the same church. England, Ireland, and Scotland belonged to the same church.
England and Scotland did have a different method for calculating Easter than other nations, and the monks had a different haircut, but other than that it was the same as any other Christian nation at the time. A key event was the Synod of Whitby in Northumbria, which led the English and Scottish to adopt the Roman method of calculating Easter.
Furthermore, William the Conqueror and his Norman tribes never forced conversion on anyone, instead he simply replaced the current bishops with his own.
Finally, many Eastern Orthodox Writers agree that saints were produced in the Isles long before the East-West split. Take for example Patrick of Ireland, Columba, and Bede the Venerable
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Anon03/14/26, 04:15No.18387957
Orthodox in the canonical sense? Yes. Were they not "latinized"? No, they were very much pro-Roman and there is no evidence that there was any break in communion with Rome post 1054 up until the Norman conquest. Many western bishops in the early days of the Great Schism actually came from England due to the high density of monasteries which existed on the isle. This idea that the Normans somehow "latinized" the Anglo-Saxons doesn't really make sense when you consider the latter adopted Christianity prior to the former.t. Orthodox anon