Makanisa ya Kikelti

Makanisa wa Kikelti (au Ukristo wa Kikelti (kwa Kiingereza Celtic Christianity) yalikuweko katika visiwa vya Britania kuanzia karne ya 3 hadi mwanzo wa Karne za kati.

Jina
Jina linatokana na lugha ya Wakelti, wakazi asili wa visiwa hivyo.

Upekee wake
Tofauti kati ya Ukristo wa huko na ule wa Ulaya bara zinapimwa na wataalamu kwa namna mbalimbali. Siku hizi wengi wanaona hazikuwa kubwa sana. Kati yake kuna siku iliyopangwa kuadhimisha Pasaka, namna ya kunyoa wamonaki, utaratibu wa kitubio na juhudi za kuhama nchi ya kuzaliwa "kwa ajili ya Kristo". 

Juhudi hizo za mwisho zilifanya hasa wamonaki kutoka visiwani waeneze desturi za Kikelti barani Ulaya; muhimu zaidi kati yake ni ile ya kuungama mara kwa mara kwa padri ili kutunza daima moyo safi.

Hatima
Ukristo wa Kikelti ulipata pigo kubwa katika Sinodi ya Whitby (664), ambapo ufalme wa Northumbria uliamua kufuata desturi za Kanisa la Roma.

Tanbihi

Marejeo

Vyanzo vya awali
 Adomnan, Life of Columba, ed. A. O. and M. O. Anderson, 2nd edition (Oxford Medieval Texts, 1991)
 Annales Cambriae, ed. Rev. John Williams ab Ithel (London : Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1860)
 Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Angelorum, in Venerabilis Baedae Opera Historica, ed. C. Plummer (Oxford, 1896)
 Cummian, De controversia paschali and De ratione conputandi, eds. Maura Walsh and Dáibhí Ó Cróinín (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1988), pp. 93–5.
 Gildas, De Excidio Brittaniae, ed. J. A. Giles, Six Old English Chronicles (London, 1848)
 Historia Brittonum, ed. J. A. Giles, Six Old English Chronicles (London, 1848)
 Medieval Handbooks of Penance, eds. J. T. McNeill and H. M. Gamer (New York: Columba University Press, 1939)
 Patrick (Saint), Confessio, ed. and trans. John Skinner (Image, 1998)
 Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine), The Lives of the British Saints,(1907) scanned by Google (alphabetized)

Vyanzo vingine
 
 Brown, Peter. The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003).
 Cahill, Thomas. How the Irish Saved Civilization (Anchor, 1996). ISBN 0-385-41849-3
 Charles-Edwards. T. M. Early Christian Ireland (Cambridge, 2000).
 
 Cróinín, Dáibhí Ó. Early Medieval Ireland: 400–1200 (London, 1995).
 Davies, Wendy. "The Myth of the Celtic Church", in The Early Church in Wales and the West, Oxbow Monograph, no. 16, edited by Nancy Edwards and Alan Lane, 12–21. (Oxford: Oxbow, 1992).
 

 Google Books link 2

 Nordenfalk, Carl. Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Painting: Book illumination in the British Isles 600–800. New York: George Braziller, 1977.
 Pächt, Otto.  Book Illumination in the Middle Ages (trans fr German), 1986, Harvey Miller Publishers, London, ISBN 0-19-921060-8
 Ryan, John. Irish Monasticism, Origins and Early Development, Talbot Press, Dublin, 1931
 Sharpe, Richard. ‘Some problems concerning the organisation of the Church in early medieval Ireland’, Peritia 3 (1984).
 Wormald, Patrick. The Times of Bede: Studies in Early English Christian Society and its Historian, ed. Stephen Baxter (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006).

Marejeo mengine

 Mayr-Harting, Henry. The Coming of Christianity to Anglo-Saxon England, 3rd edition (London: B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1991).

Ukristo
Historia ya Ukristo
Historia ya Ireland
Historia ya Uingereza