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Pardon E. Tillinghast wrote: > I do seem to remember that the Irish > tended to be Vagantes more than say the Anglo-Saxons did; their poetry (at > least back in Ireland) suggests that they wandered a lot too. I think the > idea of TERRITORIAL bishops wasn't big with the Irish at this time. There is a good summary of recent thought on the early Irish church, and the whole issue of the existence or otherwise of a `Celtic' church, in Wendy Davies' chapter in `The Early Church in Wales and the West', eds. Nancy Edwards and Alan Lane (1995?). The article has an excellent bibliography. Anyone interested in how `territorial' Irish bishops were, and their role in the Irish ecclesiatic situation, should look at Kathleen Hughes, `The Church in Early Irish Society' (1966), and `Early Christian Ireland: An Introduction to the Sources' (1972?) Ron Ron Ross Archaeological Research Consultancy of the University of Sheffield (ARCUS) [log in to unmask] ([log in to unmask]) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%