In the 5th or 6th centuries a colony of Britons settled in northern Galicia, and their bishops-abbots attended several councils, first of the Suebic Kingdom of Galicia, and later of the Visigoths in Toledo, until the 8th century.
No século V ou VI unha colonia de britóns asentouse no norte de Galicia, e os seus bispos acudiron a numerosos concilios, primeiro do Reino suevo, e despois dos visigodos en Toledo, até o século VIII.