Traditional Anglicanism.

"And when the day of pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind and it filled the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire."Acts, Ch 2, vs,I-3.
==Contemporary accounts==
It would not be going to far to claim that what we today call Anglicanism is simply the One, Holy Catholic and Apostolic and Apostolic Church of the Scripture, not the whole Church,but an ancient Communion within it. There is mention within Church records of early Christian activity in this area, amongst the first to mention an early start in Britain was Tertullian A.D. (155.) Who wrote,"After the extremities of Spain, the various parts of Gaul, the Regions of Britain...... have received the religion of Christ!" Another was S. Dorotheus of, Bishop of Tyre, 303 A.D." "Simon Zelotes preached Christ.....At length he was crucified at Brittania, slain and buried." ( Synopsis De Apostol. Syn.9 . "Simon Zelotes.) S.Simon was the reputed Brother of Our Lord. Further S.Dorotheus, claims the First Bishop to Britain was,"Aristobulos" (Syn. de Apost.,Synops 23.)
There were some eleven other records that stand to support the above claims and amongst these was S.Gildas, the early British Historian who wrote," Christ the True Son afforded His light , the knowledge of His precepts, to our Island in the last year ,as we know, of Tiberius Caesar,." ( De Exideo Britannia.) This makes exciting reading as we know that Tiberius died in 37 A.D. some four years after the Crucifixion of Christ.
==Later records==
Later Records show that at the Councils of Pisa,(1409,) Siena,(1424) Basle, (1434) the Church in England claimed,"Superior dignity and antiquity on the ground of the Churches of France and Spain must yield in points of antiquity and precedence to that of britain as the latter Church was founded by S.Joseph of Arimathea immediately after the Passion of Christ. Polidore Virgil, a Roman Catholic historian wrote, "Britain partly through S.Joseph of Arimathea.....was of all Kingdoms , the first that received the Gospel." ( Disputatio super Dignitatem Angliae et Galliae in Concilio Constantiana . T.Martin, Louvain, 1517.)
SS, Athanasius, Chrysostom as well as the Emperor Constantine all bear witness to the early genesis of the Church in Britain as well as its Catholicity.
==Early history==
The basic magisterium, or teaching authority within the Catholic Church was and is, the Bishops in Council,the Seven Ecumenical Councils of the first thousand years. It was taught that British Bishops attended the greatest Council ever, that of Niceae, held in 315 AD. In the Catholic Messenger an article by a Roman Scholar claimed the presence of at least one British Bishop at the Great Synod. Orthodox Time line names him as Bishop Restitutius possibly Bishop of Lincoln. Other Bishops from the Church had previously attended the Councils of Arles,i.e. The Bishops of York, of London and the Bishop of Caerleon, who was possibly primus of the British Church! British Bishops were also present at Sardica, in Illyria in 347 A.D. as well as Arimium in Italy. These latter two were simply the business meetings of the catholic Church to carry on the administrative business of the universal church, It bear little resemblance to the works carried out by the Ecumenical Councils.
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