Timeline of Orthodoxy in the British Isles

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• 305 Protomartyr of England, St. Alban.
• 432 Saint Patrick missions to Ireland.
• 596 Pope Gregory sends Augustine to the English of south east Britain.
• 7th century: Celtic missions are launched in Northumbria (aidan, Cuthbert).
• 624 St. Mellitus, first known sainted Bishop of London.
• 630 St. Audrey of Ely was born in west Suffolk.
• 647 March 8 - St. Felix of Burgundy, Apostle of East Anglia.
• 675 St. Ethelburgh, first abbess of the Convent of Barking
• 679 St. Audrey of Ely dies.
• 680 June 17 - St. Botolph of Iken dies.
• 694 St. Sebbe, founder of the monastery of Westiminster
• 693 St. Erconwald, Bishop of London
• 696 St. Audrey of Ely body found incorrupt.
• 869 November 20 - King Edmund of East Anglia martyred.
• 870 Ss. Beocca and Hethor, the two martyrs of Chertsey
• 899 October 26 - King Alfred the Great dies.
• 903 relics of King Alfred the Great translated to New Minster.
• 955 November 23 - King Edred of England dies.
• 988 St. Dunstan, Bishop of London.
• 1002 St. Wulsin, renewer of the Monastery of St. Peter.
• 1012 St. Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury martyred to the east of London at Greenwich.
• 1066 October 14, last Orthodox King of England, Harold of England dies.

after the Great Schism

• 1670 Daniel Voulgaris creates and establishes first Greek Orthodox Community in London.
• 1677 "Temple" erected for the nation of the Greeks
• 1738 Print 'Noon' by William Hogarth shows evidence of a crowd exiting a Greek Orthodox church.
• 1837 Imperial Russian Embasy offers hospitality in London to the Greek Community for their religious activities.
• 1850 Greek Orthodox church built in London Street in the City.
• 1877 Greek Orthodox Church of the Divine Wisdom (St Sophia) in Bayswater built.
• 1906 Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Nicholas built in Cardiff.
• 1908 Oecumenical Patriarchate transfers its rights for four Greek Orthodox community churches to Church of Greece.
• 1922 the Holy Synod of the Oecumenical Patriarchate creates the Greek Orthodox ArchDiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain, with London as its seat; Germanos Strinopoulos choses as first Bishop and Metropolitan of Thyateira.
• {{Germanos was succeeded after his death in 1951 by Archbishop Athenagoras Kavadas (1951-1962); after his death by Archbishop Athenagoras Kokkinakis (1963-1979) and after his death by Archbishop Methodios Fouyias (1979-1988), who was replaced in April 1988 by the present incumbent of the Archdiocese, Archbishop Gregorios Theocharous (who for the previous 18 years had been Bishop of Tropaeou, serving in North London)}}
• 1966 St. John the Wonderworker, Archbishop of London.
• 1975 The Greek Orthodox community of Saint Panteleimon of Harrow established
• 1996 St. Aidan's Antiochian Orthodox Church in Manchester consecrated by Metropolitan Gabriel (Saliby).
• 2005 [September] Mission in Macclesfield dedicated to St. Theodore of Canterbury opens.
• 2007 Repose of Metropolitan Gabriel Saliby (Antiochian); Bishop John Yazigi elected to Metropolitanate of Western and Central Europe.
• 2008 Enthronement of Metropolitan John (Yazigi) of Western and Central Europe, September 20.

Notes

• Some of these dates are necessarily a bit vague, as records for some periods are particularly difficult to piece together accurately.
• The division of Church History into separate eras as done here will always be to some extent arbitrary, though it was attempted to group periods according to major watershed events.
• This timeline is necessarily biased toward the history of the Orthodox Church, though a number of non-Orthodox or purely political events are mentioned for their importance in history related to Orthodoxy or for reference.

See also

• Timeline of Church History