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This is the Conversation Forum for St Clement Danes Church, Strand, London, UK << St.Clement Danes Crypt Subject: AD 9 Posted Dec 21, 2001 by manolan   Posting 1 I'm amazed it could have been built that early (BTW, it is AD 9, _not_ 9 AD). When did Christianity come to Britain? Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: AD 9 Posted Dec 21, 2001 by Olaf K Foddaman This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 2 The common concensus seems to be that christ was born approx 6 BC. As one of the tenets of christian faith is that christ rose from the dead. As this didn't happen until his 30's, it means that there was no christianity anywhere until AD 25 or so. Early british christians had a habit of building churches on "pagan" sites. This could be what happened here. Or it could be just a typo. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: AD 9 Posted Dec 21, 2001 by Mina - Older on the outside, inside still 14 This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 3 I read somewhere that Christianity came to Britain sometime in the 700s. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: AD 9 Posted Jan 2, 2002 by Nightowl This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 4 I loved the article, but I agree that there is something wrong with this date. Perhaps it should have read "9th Century". The Danes held much of the area in question between 850 and 950, as far as I know, and this time frame makes more sense. Having read this piece, I will be sure not to pass this area without a visit to the church. Thank you. Nightowl Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: AD 9 Posted Jan 3, 2002 by Ashley This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 5 Oops! Thanks guys - it's all been fixed now. Happy New Year Y'all Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: AD 9 Posted Nov 2, 2006 by Phoenician Trader This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 6 A long dead conversation I can't help resurecting. Christianity came to Roman Britain in about 40AD. It has stayed there ever since. Pope Gregory the Great sent Augustine of Canterbury to England just before 600. Essentially (depsite a lot of misinformation floating around), Augustine romanised the existing celtic church rather than converted it. Augustine's endless Easter Controversy meetings with the celtic bishops (described by the Venemous Bede) illustrate the point. PS: Clement of Rome was never Pope however close he was to the movers and shakers in Christian Rome. Part of the problem is that it is not clear if Rome had a bishop in the Syrian (and modern) sense at that time. Never the less, he was a very good writer whose scribblings survived the extremely thorough persecutions and book burnings of the next two centuries and so he is very famous. Conversation list Most of the content on h2g2 is created by h2g2's Researchers, who are members of the public. The views expressed are theirs and unless specifically stated are not those of the BBC. The BBC is not responsible for the content of any external sites referenced. In the event that you consider anything on this page to be in breach of the site's House Rules, please click on the relevant button to alert our Moderation Team. Conversation list

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