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   From: jsolinas@comcast.net   
      
   Larry Swain wrote:   
      
   >>(2) The Norman Conquest took place 12 years after the schism. From an   
   Orthodox   
   >>point of view, the Anglo-Saxon and Celtic Churches were Orthodox. The Norman   
   >>Conquest was in a sense therefore the conquest of Orthodoxy.   
   >   
   > Not really....William appointed his own bishops and only later did he   
   subscribe to   
   > the Roman position--and his son still had to assure the pope that they'd tow   
   the   
   > line.  The Anglo-Saxon church was quite orthodox and had earlier in the   
   century gone   
   > through a major reform, the Benedictine Reform, that was in large part   
   influenced by   
   > Abbo of Fleury--Fleury is a monastery in Normandy.   
      
   You seem to mean "orthodox" where Mr. Hayes means "Orthodox" as in   
   "Eastern Orthodox."   
      
      
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