<P> The allegiance of Felix to Canterbury determined the Roman basis of the East Anglian Church, though his training in Burgundy may have been coloured by the teaching of the Irish missionary Columbanus in Luxeuil . In around 633, perhaps shortly before Aidan was sent to Lindisfarne from Iona, the Irish royal hermit and missionary Fursey came from the Athlone area with his priests and brethren to East Anglia . Sigeberht granted him a monastery site in an old Roman fort called Cnobheresburg, usually identified as Burgh Castle near Yarmouth . Felix and Fursey both effected many conversions and established churches in Sigeberht's kingdom . Bede records that Archbishop Honorius and Bishop Felix much admired the work of Aidan of Lindisfarne . Therefore, it is likely that they also appreciated of Fursey, whose community also lived according to the ascetic principles of Irish Christianity . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section does not cite any sources . Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (December 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section does not cite any sources . Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (December 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> 625: Paulinus begins preaching </Li> <Li> 627: Edwin is baptised </Li> <Li> 633: Osric and Eanfrith of Bernicia are crowned: Heathen resurgence </Li> <Li> 634: Oswald is crowned </Li> </Ul>

The christianization of anglo-saxon england ( 597 bc) happened through the conversion of