Who brought Catholicism to Britain, and how was it brought about that we accepted the pope as the Highest?

Question

member of the Catholic Church.The reason i ask this, is we like most countries in the past were very arrogant and i am suprised that our King/Queen at the time allowed a small part of their authority to be taken away. Also i can imagine us not wanting someone who lived so far away in a foreign country having any power over us. Prob havent explained what i mean too well, but i know what i mean lol.

Answer 1

The Romans first brought Christianity to Britain in the first or second century.

Later Saint Augustine came from Rome to evangelize the Angles in 597 C.E.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01505a.h...

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

If Catholicism can be defined as the "universal church", traders, Roman soldiers, and early missionaries had introduced Christianity to the British Isles by the 3rd century CE:  

1) Tertullian wrote that British districts were inaccessible to Rome but subdued by Christianity, and by CE 240,  Christianity was a unifying force among the Britons.

2) British Bishops traveled to the Council of Nicaea in AD 325.

3)  A 5th century British heretic, Pelagius, is responsible for a doctrine that denied both original sin and grace.  

The Anglo-Saxon invasion of the mid-5th century caused Christianity to wane, so in 595, Pope Gregory sent Augustine of Canterbury to reintroduce Christianity to Britain as the "Apostle to the English".  Irish monks, most noticeably St. Columba, introduced Celtic Christianity to parts of modern-day Scotland in the 6th and 7th century.

Answer 3

Christianity was practised in the British Isles in the first or second centuries (probably via the tin trade route through Ireland and Spain), but it was not attached to the Church of Rome>

The formal entry of Catholicism into  England occurred when the Pope sent Saint Augustine from Rome in the 6th century to convert  the Angles in  the year 597. With the help of Christians already residing in Kent, Augustine established his church in Canterbury, the capital of Kent, and  became the first in the series of archbishops of Canterbury.

  This year predates the establishment of a monarchy over all of England by almost two centuries (829).

Answer 4

I think you need to brush up on your history, Catholicism has been part of the British way of life for centuries.The pope has NO power in Britain, and the Queen is the head of the official religion of Britain,The church of England.

Answer 5

"Pope is a proper noun ...Upper case capital initial please

Answer 6

it was brought to britain by the romans who forced it on the people(sounds familiar)the romans murdered all of the wode priests on the isle of avalon in a massive blood lust to insure the survival of the catholics until henry 8th

Answer 7

I don't know for sure, but England was split into many kingdoms, although King Harold is thought to be the supreme leader at the time of the norman conquest.  I believe Catholicism was practised sporadically from the time of the romans departure, as Rome was by then the head of the Catholic church. During and after the Norman conquest, when William took the throne, he (presumably) made Catholicism the national religion.

Answer 8

The only christian religion was the Roman Catholic church when Christianity was introduced so it was christanity not catholisim that people embraced.It  was usually adopted because the local king was persuaded to convert giving his subjects little choice but to follow.Once the religion was accepted it reinforced the kings power that the church usually endorsed his position by being the ones who crowned and blessed them as governing by the will of god.