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In the Scoti-Monasticon it quotes Boece (circa 1530) that
“the term Culdee originally denoted monks, but up to his time was applied to all priests.”
 
Dr Wylie In his “History of Scotland” elaborated:
“It was the Culdee lamp that burned at Constance, at Basle, at Ypres, at Worms and Mainz. Boniface, the emissary of Rome, came afterwards to put out these lights. The real apostle of the provinces was the Culdee Church.”

From Scotland to Ireland the early Culdee church grew inside kin-structured familiae / muintir—monastic “households” that managed worship, learning, and land under abbots and scholar-teachers, with bishops serving sacramentally alongside them. Governance and succession often tracked clan and hereditary lines (see William F. Skene, Celtic Scotland, vol. II: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/72728/72728-h/72728-h.htm; John Dowden, The Celtic Church in Scotland: https://archive.org/details/thecelticchurchi00dowduoft/). Primary evidence like the Book of Deer charters shows ecclesiastical possession and patronage embedded in local kin custom: https://archive.org/details/bookofdeeredfors00spaluoft. As J. W. Willis-Bund summed up the Welsh side of the same Insular pattern, “the Celtic clergy were tribesmen first, and churchmen afterwards” (p. 20): https://dn790006.ca.archive.org/0/items/celticchurchofwa00will/celticchurchofwa00will.pdf. This is why Culdee houses could endure political change—clan guardianship and charters anchored property, schools, and liturgy across generations.

Glastonbury stands as a Culdee-aligned witness to this kin model, where married clergy/monastics і hereditary stewardship of abbeys and church estates are repeatedly attested (your synthesis and quotes are here: https://celticorthodoxy.com/2017/05/glastonbury-married-cleric-monks/). In the Isles broadly, such continuity was often protected by secular law and local lordship, allowing abbeys and coarbs to preserve their mission when uniform policies pressed against older usage—exactly the “hereditary tribal leadership” dynamic you’ve documented: https://celticorthodoxy.com/2016/08/hereditary-tribal-leadership/.

 
The subject of Celtic Church itself is a vast area of interest around the world. Tens of thousands of inspiring articles and pages circulate on the internet just as it relates things “Celtic”. Many of these articles, as it relates to the Celtic Church, are on our website www.CelticOrthodoxy.com.
Most agree that the earliest Christian priests of the Celtic lands were called Culdees. In most recent years still the estates of Culdees passed to our House of O’Neill heirs whether in Scotland, Ireland or abroad. Culdees (whether in name or spirit) continue on as part of the structure various Cathedral and Monastical establishments. Although typically a Prior or Abbot of the Culdees are Independent, answerable to no jurisdiction, the secular laws protected the property handing down to hereditary heirs (as per Jaimeson’s and other historical works document). Finally Bishop Ussher (the Anglican Primate of Ireland), Archbishop of Armagh, under British Royal Decree to reinstate all Culdees, had documented their graves and names of buildings, and Streets surrounding his Patriarchate. Today these landmarks of the Irish (as well as Scottish, British and European) ancient Celtic Church See of Armagh still bears the name of the Culdees. Although many died in the wars of resistance, he gained a compromise from the Chief of the O’Neills. All the Culdee hereditary institutions were then recognized to be within the lawful possession of the Irish Primate of the Orthodox British.
Ever since, the Culdee continue on at least as Priors/Teachers and Choir. At Armagh the Priors often raised to the highest rank in the church, or held influence of every stature of the land. So the Culdees would remain within the hidden intrigue of what it means to be “Celtic” as felt around the world.
 

Ireland was named Brittanis (Little Britain) by Julius Caesar. The name stuck for a while, and was used by Ptolemy and even by the English. The people of Ireland are tribally called “Scots”. Hibernia itself, like the word Britain are Hebrew words having to do with being a covenant tribe of Israel. Britain means Covenant People in Hebrew. Hibernia (the main name of Ireland) means Hebrew.

 
Although the protections of our church were more wide ranging in ancient times, still we have sovereign protections (through various means) continuing today for our Orthodox Celtic ethnic minority communities. While our identity and culture is strongly attacked, God has always provided us ways forward to expand. 
 
The rank of our church (for example at Glastonbury, where Armagh Primates traditionally retired) has remained an institution comparable to Constantinople (or higher) for the true Orthodox world. It was four times larger, and had many more Apostles and Saints buried there. Long before the Great Schism our British(Celtic) Abbots and Bishops would freely consecrate, co-consecrate and receive consecrations from other jurisdictions such as the Patriarchates of Jerusalem and Constantinople (as one church). Till the last few centuries, the Black Friar communities of Armagh Ireland (Hereditary Coarbs), as protected by the O’Neills, were an example of the continuity of Culdee independence. Today’s thriving order of Benedictine monks (which merged with Culdees long ago) are another example of how an order who existed before the great schism, continues today as being wholly Orthodox in the West. Culdees typically hold more orthodox compliancy credentials than typical orthodox. 
 
Our unbroken succession of priests (within numerous orders) as Culdee priests, continue in unbroken traditions of the Celtic First Century church, as affirmed in official celebrations of our Celtic Saints around the world. Iona Scotland and Glastonbury England, as well as the numerous institutes listed in the Welsh Pedigrees of Saints, are other examples of our continuity from the original Israelite Apostles. The most inspiring official documentaries on lives of the Celtic Saints, demonstrate the enduring nature and strength of our Independent Celtic church of the Culdees that permeated in every age and is within our BCP liturgy and practices today. 
 
All of England celebrates King Arthur’s burial place at the Culdees’ Glastonbury Abbey. We also celebrate Emperor Constantine’s Maternal Grandfather King Cole buried at Glastonbury. These had founded a long line of our Celtic Kings who continued to defend our church independence, as unto this present day. Several Irish Coarbs of Armagh (the Primates of the Irish church) would hand it off to one of their family heirs, and leave Ireland to finish their ministries as Abbots of the Glastonbury Abbey. Finally the Saxon Kings were some of the greatest protectors of Glastonbury Abbey where it remained in greater size (and arguably more visited and in more grandeur than) Constantinople’s Cathedral. It remained regarded as such by the West at least until it’s destruction by King Henry VIII, and the successors built a new Glastonbury in America at the height of American Christian governance.
 

There are many well known leaders of our early schools, such as Saint Patrick and Saint Columba, and even Christ’s Uncle Joseph of Arimathea, та інших святих першого століття, які очолювали Британію, like St. Aristobulus, St. Andrew, St. Paul, and St. Philip [some of the most ancient forefathers of the Celtic Orthodox Church]. We have a list of nearly 1,000 more Celtic British Saints who led the church centuries before the Roman Saxon St. Augustine came to England.

It was recorded before Augustine came, St Columba had Saxons in his school at Iona, namely Genereus and Pilu as recorded by Adamnan. The Culdees weren’t exclusive to themselves, but had set up great missions to Europe(ie Luxeuil and St Gall and 83 other major establishments). The Roman historian Bede  had also praised the Celts’ outreach and integration of their neighboring kindred tribes. 

Our Culdean Saint Cummian, who lived a few years after Columbanus, wrote: “What can be deemed worse of a Mother Church than that we should say: Rome goes astray, Jerusalem goes astray, Antioch goes astray, only the Irish and Britons know what is right.” (Cummian, Ad Segienum, Huensen Abbatem.)

On the Continent numerous of our Early Culdean Saints are honored:

150 early Culdee Missionaries are honored in Germany, 45 in France, 30 in Belgium, 13 in Italy, 8 in in Norway and Iceland, to say nothing of other places and Saints of whom mention is made in the British Martyrology.
In the early period of the church, the Culdees are renown for having already founded 12 monasteries in England, 13 in Scotland, 7 in France, 16 in Bavaria, 15 in Rhoetia, Germany and Switzerland, 10 in Alsace, 7 in Lorraine, 12 in Armorica and 6 in Italy.

This church and the many Saints have brought us all much encouragement and inspiration in Christ. Most of all we see what a wonderful God we serve, that our God, the God of Israel, is a true and living God who honors His covenants with His bride called Christian Israel.

Докладніше про коротка історія кельтської кульде-церкви та наше відновлення.

У наступному розділі ви дізнаєтесь більше про основні аспекти кельтської церкви.

It was actually from the time of Jeremiah the Prophet that the Irish Celtic church began to take hold. His dated grave remains part of the history of Ireland today. He had successfully transplanted the Kingdom of Israel to the British Isles, just as God had foretold to him. David’s literal throne is a part of Irish, Scottish and English history that is known as the stone of scone. The many Hebrew practices remaining so long in the Celtic lands bears witness to this Israelite heritage. – His Eminence ++ Rev Dr. Stephen M.K. Brunswick ThD, PhD, Primace, OCC.

Ось короткий підбір з доктринальних статей нашої Кульдейської (єврейської кельтської) церкви:

  1. Про нашу Церкву:
    1. Catholic Orthodox History and recognition of Sacraments between them.
    2. Коротка історія православної церкви Кульдесів (кельтська)
    3. Наступництво нашої книги спільної молитви, нашої первинної літургії
  2. Про кельтський календар / свята:
    1. Honoring of the Sabbath in the Historic Orthodox Church, by Rev Dr Stephen MK Brunswick, ThD, PhD, Primace, OCC.
    2. Celtic Orthodox, Preserving Trumpets Feasts in their liturgies
    3. “Кельтська церква у Великобританії” Леслі Хардінг.
    4. Saint David of Wales, the Culdees, and the True Meaning of the ‘Lord’s Way’: A Defense of Celtic Sabbath Observance
    5. Колумбан і кельтська церква, Квартодециман (14-20 нісан) Дотримання Великодня / Пасхи
    6. Saint John’s Day and the Sacred Rhythms of Light, Fire, and Harvest
    7. СТАНКИ (РІШНІШЕ, ніж 25 ГРУДНЯ) були дуже популярними у християн у всіх православних районах
    8. Pastoral Handout for the Advent Season
  3. Про кельтські традиції:
    1. The Lord’s Prayer by Number, and the Forgotten Discipline of Embodied Prayer
    2. Cross-Vigil in Celtic Orthodoxy: Sources, Theology, and Practice
    3. “Truth Trumphant” (Free PDF Book) by Wilkinson, indepth chapters on the Celtic / Gallican church, especially the Waldensians, holding to the Israelite doctrines, Sabbath etc.
    4. “The Liturgy and Ritual of the Celtic Church”(Free PDF Book) By F. E. Warren
    5. “ECCLESIASTICAL ANTIQUITIES OF THE CYMRY” or the Ancient British Church, its History, Doctrine and Rites (Free PDF Book).
    6. The Tassel of Covenant Faithfulness
    7. “Ireland and the Celtic Church”(Free PDF Book) by George Thomas Stokes Pub 1892
    8. Recovering True Orthodoxy: Scripture Teaching, Not Merely Cultural Sentiment
    9. Вшанування св. Галла та св. Отмара в православній церкві Кульдесів
    10. Святкування святого Едберта, єпископа Ліндісфарна
    11. The Origin and Continuity of Prayer Beads and Knots Across Christendom
    12. PDF book: Saints of Wales, Cornwall and Irish Saints with Dedications in Britain, from “The Lives of the British Saints” vol 2
    13. Свято святого Колмана, ще одного сильного свідка для православного християнського та єврейського календаря
    14. The Jesus Prayer in the Celtic Church: An Ancient Link to the East

    15. HALLOWEDEVE (СВЯТИЙ ВЕЧІР 31 ЖОВТНЯ) - ХРИСТІАНСЬКЕ СВЯТО, ВІДМІНОВАНЕ ПРАВОСЛАВНИМ ВСІМ СВІТОМ

    16. Deaconesses and Abbesses in the Church
    17. Біблійні твори мистецтва заповідає Бог для церков
  4. Про нашу стародавню спадщину:
    1. “David Episcopus Moni Iudeorum”: Saint David’s 601 Synod and the Welsh Church’s Stand Against Rome
    2. From Troy to Britain: Joseph of Arimathea, Anna, Cadwalladr, and the Sacred Genealogies of Early Britain
    3. St Elfan Avalonius, 2nd Century Welsh Saint, comm. January 1st and Sept 26
    4. Triads of Wales – OCC E-Book Library Content
    5. Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters, Online and Print Versions
    6. Amra Of St Columba – 6th Century Poem on Life of Columba, an Early Culdee Church Father
    7. Remembering Saint Margaret, the Saxon Queen of Scotland Who Revolutionized our Church, demoted our Culdees and added Sunday worship services. 
    8. Єрусалимська церква переїхала до Британії, а Апостольський Престол у Гластонбері, названий пізніше «Другим Римом». Багато британських святих І-ІІ ст. Підтверджують це, див. Доданий PDF "Святих"
    9. The Early British Church, from “Celt, Druid and Culdee” by Elder
    10. Britain’s Ancient Orthodox Heritage: A Living Tradition, Not a Modern Conversion
    11. Judah’s Scepter and Joseph’s Birthright (Celtic British Israel Book)
    12. The Celtic Church of Wales – extensive book – Free in PDF
    13. Численні стародавні рукописи, що підтверджують св. Йосифа (із Синедріону), заснували британське єврейське священство в Гластонбері в 36 р. Н. Е.
    14. Безкоштовний розділ "Поширення кульдеївської церкви" з "Історії шотландської нації" або "Історія кельтської церкви" (усі три томи): історія цивілізації від доісторичних часів до середньовічних часів.
    15. The Orthodox Identity of the British Church and Anglicanism
    16. “Irish Saints in Great Britain”(Free PDF Book) by Rev Dr Moran, Dublin 1879
    17. “The Early Scottish Church – Ecclesiastical History of Scotland”(Free PDF Book) by McLaughlin, Edinburg 1865
    18. ІРЛАНСЬКІ ПАПОВІ ЦАРІ КОЛИШНІ ПРАВИТЕЛИ БРИТАНІЇ
    19. Безкоштовний розділ з книги "Кельт, друїд і калді"
    20. The Norse-Gaelic Influence in Kievan Rus and the Celtic Church Legacy
    21. Єврейські кельтські витоки християнської церкви
    22. Декларація Арброата, доказ того, що шотландці - ізраїльтяни з "Великої Скіфії"
    23. Affinity Between the Hebrew and Celtic Languages (AKA Races)
    24. Подорож Сен-Бренданом (Калді) до Америки в 6 столітті
  5. Про чистоту євреїв у Церкві:
    1. Дієтичні закони в православній кельтській церкві
    2. Women’s Offices in OCC: The Role of Deaconesses & Abbesses

    3. Married Abbots. The Culdees Required Abbots, Priests, Monks and even Nuns to be married in purity and with periods of separation for their courses of services

  6. Про давньоєврейську (християнську) літургію в Церкві:

    1. The Didache and the Culdees: A Guide for Christian Guilds and Self-Sustaining Communities
    2. The Orthodox Order of the Culdees, the Rule of St Maelruan +792AD
    3. Наступництво нашої книги спільної молитви, нашої первинної літургії
    4. Daily Hours Liturgy. English Orthodox Private Devotions For the Hours of Prayer, as Authorized in 1560, added footnotes of Scripture and Church Fathers in 1626

    5. Літургічна молитва BCP, “ШАМА” Молитва християнського світу та кульдеїв підтримується з 450 р. до н. е. донині

    6. The (Apostles’ Didascalia) and ancient Amidah Prayers окреслити багато наших існуючих молитовних служб загальновизнаного християнства.

    7. The First Century “Didache” (incl. missing translation and verses) as accepted by the Culdee, and greater fellowship of churches. 

    8. Missing Verses from the Didache on Communion with Incense. Also see Sarum Missal and Apostles Didascalia for confirmation.

    9. The Sarum Missal (Our BCP is rooted in Sarum) for reference

Книга, яку ми настійно рекомендуємо, - «Кельтська церква у Великобританії» Леслі Хардінг.

 

Він охоплює безліч доказів того, що кельтська церква дотримувалась дієтичних законів, свят та субот.

Кельтська церква була єврейською та православною

Кельтська церква, яка окупувала Ірландію, Шотландію та Британію, мала сирійські (візантійські) писання замість латинської вульгати Риму. Кельтська церква разом з вальденсами та Східною імперією дотримувалась суботи сьомого дня.
 
Сотні православних святих Великої Британії до розколу найсильніше свідчать про ці факти. Today the Eastern churches still venerate most of these. For Britain alone we have cataloged 130 official Saints of Britain who pre-dated Augustine. When counting all the Celtic lands that number is over 1,000 pre-Augustine Celtic Saints. An example of the most popular pre-schism Orthodox Saints of England can be found online on such sites as: http://www.oodegr.co/english/istorika/britain/British_Saints.htm.
 

Єврейське кельтське право

 Кельтська церква не тільки використовувала сирійську візантійську Біблію, але вони успішніше охороняли весь закон ЯХВЕ.
 
Одним із прикладів єврейського кельтського закону є Lieber ex Lege Moisi.
Liber ex Lege Moisi розповсюджувався Святим Патріком та його наступниками в усіх кельтських церквах, будь то в Англії, Шотландії чи Ірландії.
 
Короткий зміст:
1. Сьомий день суботи.
2. Рабство і відносини господаря до слуг
3. Різні злочини щодо смертної кари.
4. Компенсація в грошах "виду" за різні злочини.
5. Злочини тварин проти особистості та власності.
6. Тварини, що використовуються як їжа, чиста та нечиста, а також на забій.
7. Секс і шлюб.
8. Жіноча гігієна.
9. Десятина, первісні плоди, обітниці та пожертви всіх видів.
10. Справедливість, підкуп, свідки, переклад та лихварство.
11. Міста притулку, притулку та гостинності.
12. Чарівники та некромантія та людські жертви.
13. Спадщина, а також суботні та ювілейні роки, борги.
14. Визначення справжнього пророка.
15. Прокляття та благословення.
 
Це лягло в основу вірувань кельтських християн.
 
Правила Адаманана визнавали, що люди можуть їсти нечистих свиней, але не якщо вони були занадто жирними. Свині повинні бути нежирними.
Дієтичні звички Колумби були чітко описані як утримання від м’яса та елю. (див. "Староірландське життя Колумби" або "Амхра Чулімб Чилле".)
 

 

We are the ancient British Orthodox and Celtic church of God. We are Anglican Orthodox, as under bishops in canonical succession within our communion. If you’d like to learn more about our Anglo Celtic faith, write to marshalofsalem@yahoo.com

Для простоти ми називаємо себе Церква Кульдеса, або православна церква Кульдесів. Подумайте про приєднання до нас. 

Іса 58:12 “А ті, хто буде від тебе, збудують старі пустирі; ти піднімеш основи багатьох поколінь; і ти будеш покликаний: ремонтником пролому, відновником доріжок, де будеш жити.“

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