: In 597 AD, St. Augustine of Canterbury was sent by Pope Gregory the Great to convert the Anglo-Saxons, establishing Canterbury as the symbolic seat of the English church.

For nearly 1,000 years, this "English Church" ( Ecclesia Anglicana ) was an integral part of the Western Roman Catholic Church. 2. The Great Split: Henry VIII and the Reformation

: Early missionaries like St. Patrick and St. Aidan who evangelized in Scotland, Ireland, and Northern England.

: The surviving Christian practices from the early Roman period.

The official "break" with Rome occurred in the 16th century under . Anglicanism 101 History