A Brief History of the Irish Orthodox Church by Monk Nicodemus Jone...

	A Brief History of the Irish Orthodox Church by Monk Nicodemus Jone...
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	How did Orthodox Christianity come to this small green
	island off the shores of the European continent in the
	uttermost West? Unknown to many, Christianity in Ireland
	does have an Apostolic foundation through the Apostles
	James and John, although the Apostles themselves never
	actually visited there.


	The Irish people were the westernmost extension of the
	vast Celtic civilization whose people called themselves
	the Gauls which stretched from southern Russia through
	Europe and eventually into the British Isles. The
	vastness of Celtic/Gallic civilization is evident in the
	names used to designate countries within its entire
	territory: the land of Galatia in Asia Minor, Gaul
	(France), Galicia (northwest Spain), and the land of the
	Gaels (Ireland). The Celtic peoples (like the Jews) kept
	in very close contact with their kinfolk across the
	Eurasian continent. When Christianity was first spread by
	the Apostles, those Celts who heard their preaching and
	accepted it (seeing it as the completion of the best
	parts of their ancient traditions and beliefs)
	immediately told their relatives, traveling by sea and
	land along routes their ancestors had followed since
	before 1000 BC.


	The two Apostles whose teachings had the greatest
	influence upon the Celtic peoples were the brothers James
	and John, the sons of Zebedee. After Pentecost, James
	first preached the Gospel to the dispersed Israelites in
	Sardinia (an island in the Mediterranean Sea off the east
	coast of Spain, which was used as a penal colony). From
	there, he went on to the Spanish mainland. He travelled
	throughout northern Spain along the river Ebro, where his
	message was eagerly heard by the Celtic/Iberian peoples,
	especially those in Galicia. This area continued to be a
	portal to Ireland for many centuries, especially for the
	transmission of the Good News.


	John preached throughout the whole territory of Asia
	Minor (modern-day Turkey), and the many peoples living
	there accepted Christianity, including the Celtic peoples
	known as the Galatians (in Cappadocia). These people also
	communicated with their relatives throughout the
	Greco/Roman world of the time, especially those in Gaul.
	By the middle of the 2nd century, the Celtic Christians
	in Gaul asked that a bishop be sent to them, and the
	Church sent St. Irenaeus, who settled at Lyons on the
	Rhone River. Among the many works St. Irenaeus
	accomplished, the most important was his mastery of the
	language of the local Celtic people and his preaching to
	them of the Christianity he had received from St.
	Polycarp, the disciple of St. John the Theologian.


	By the 4th century, Christianity had reached all the
	Celtic peoples, and this leaven was preparing people s
	hearts to receive the second burst of Christian
	missionary outreach to the Celts through St. Hilary and
	St. Martin.






	Date Published: 2024-08-03 03:33:18
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	# Topics
	Orthodoxy
	Orthodox Church
	Christianity
	Irish Orthodox
	Celts
	Ecclesiastical History
	St. Hilary
	St. Martin
	Apostle James
	Apostle John
	Missionary
	Ireland
	Galatia
	Gaul
	France
	Galicia
	Spain
	Gaels
	Asia Minor
	Iberia
	St. Irenaeus
	St. Ninian
	St. Patrick
	St. Mael
	St. Brigid
	St. Declan
	St. Ailbhe
	St. Kieran
	St. Enda. St. Finian
	12 Apostles of Ireland
	St. Comgall
	St. Brendan
	Brendan the Navigator
	Brendan of Birr
	Columba of Iona
	Columba of Terryglass
	Comgall of Bangor
	Finian of Moville
	Mobhi of Glasnevin
	Molaise of Devenish
	Ninnidh of Inismacsaint
	Sinnell of Cleenish
	Ruadhan of Lorrha
	Pagans
	Druids
	Paganism

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