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The Church of England traces its history back to 597. That year, a group of missionaries sent by the pope and led by Augustine of Canterbury began the Christianisation of the Anglo-Saxons. Augustine became the first archbishop of Canterbury. Throughout the Middle Ages, the English Church was a part of the Catholic Church led by the pope in Rome.
Catholic chaplaincies in England and Wales. Catholic Church Insurance Association. Catholic Education Service. Catholic Missionary Union of England and Wales. Catholic National Library. Catholic Truth Society. Catholic Women's League. Centres for Seafarers. Chantry Island, Hertfordshire.
The Catholic Church teaches that the coming of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles, in an event known as Pentecost, signaled the beginning of the public ministry of the Church. Catholics hold that Saint Peter was Rome's first bishop and the consecrator of Linus as its next bishop, thus starting the unbroken line which includes the current pontiff, Pope Francis .
Catholic convicts were compelled to attend Church of England services and their children and orphans were raised by the authorities as Anglicans. The first Catholic priests arrived in Australia as convicts in 1800 – James Harold, [29] James Dixon and Peter O'Neill, who had been convicted for "complicity" in the Irish 1798 Rebellion .
According to the 2016 Official Catholic Directory, as of 2016 there were 243 seminaries with 4,785 students in the United States; 3,629 diocesan seminarians and 1,456 religious seminarians. By the official 2017 statistics, there are 5,050 seminarians (3,694 diocesan and 1,356 religious) in the United States.
Within Great Britain, the Catholic Church in England and Wales has five provinces, subdivided into 22 dioceses, and the Catholic Church in Scotland has two provinces, subdivided into 8 dioceses. The Catholic dioceses in Northern Ireland are organised together with those in the Republic of Ireland, as the Catholic Church in Ireland was not ...
c.496 Frankish Christianity. Gaul, Roman Empire. Separations. Huguenots (16th century) Members. 27,000,000–58,000,000. Official website. Episcopal Conference of France. The Catholic Church in France is part of the Catholic Church in communion with the Pope in Rome across the world.
