Christianity

It is not known for certain when Christianity first arrived in the British Isles. Legendary accounts would indicate that it arrived almost immediately after the death and Resurrection of Christ. The Gospel message could in fact have been communicated early on by Christian Roman soldiers transferred to posts in Britain.

We do know that the Galatians were Celts. These also may have spread the faith to their brethren in Britain while the Apostle Paul was still completing his missionary journeys in the Mediterranean.

The first undisputed historical reference we have is from the Christian Roman Tertullian, who in 222 A.D. wrote: "The extremities of Spain, the various parts of Gaul, the regions of Britain which have never been penetrated by Roman arms have received the religion of Christ."