Christianity in Gaul (original) (raw)

Gaul was an important early center of Latin Christianity in late antiquity and the Merovingian period.By the middle of the 3rd century, there were several churches organized in Roman Gaul, and soon after the cessation of persecution the bishops of the Latin world assembled at Arles, in AD 314. The Church of Gaul passed through three dogmatic crises in the late Roman period, Arianism, Priscillianism and Pelagianism.Under Merovingian rule, a number of "Frankish synods" were held, marking a particularly Germanic development in the Western Church.A model for the following Frankish synods was set by Clovis I, who organized the First Council of Orléans (511).