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This chapter discusses the development of Christianity among the Germanic, Gothic, Celtic, Frankish and Anglian communities. Christianity began to spread in the Germanic world during the latter part of the third century among the Goths. Early Gothic Christianity consisted not of Christianised Goths but of Gothicised Christians. Instances of persecution among the Goths are exceptional events in the history of Germanic Christianisation due to the fact that early Gothic Christianity did not originate among the ruling classes. Christianity reached Roman Britain during the third century at the latest. In the course of the sixth century the Celtic churches were taken over by coenobitic monasticism. The conversions of Clovis, king of the Franks in the last years of the sixth century, came to assume fundamental significance for the further development of Christianities in the West. Pope Gregory the Great planned and launched a long-distance mission to Anglo-Saxon England, a novel enterprise without precedent in the history of late antique Christianities.
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