Hiberno-Scottish mission

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The Hiberno-Scottish mission was a series of expeditions in the 6th and 7th centuries by Gaelic missionaries originating from Ireland that spread Celtic Christianity in Scotland, Wales, England and Merovingian lands. Catholic Christianity spread first within Ireland. Since the 8th and 9th centuries, these early missions were called 'Celtic Christianity'. The mission was not coordinated from a single center, but involved centuries of self-determined Irish missionaries. As a whole, Celtic-speaking areas were part of Latin Christendom at a time when there was significant regional variation of liturgy and structure, but a general collective veneration of the Papacy was no less intense in Celtic-speaking areas. Both Protestants and Catholics in Ireland have honored the Hiberno-Scottish mission as their own heritage.

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