Bodies

The bodies that act: 19 institutions, their founders and their seats. 11 of them carry no foundation year at all — three are known from Lives, which narrate without dating, and the fourth from a chronicle that tells the story under an annal it does not mean as the date. Rather than borrow a year, each names a dated person who fixes when it stood.

• Monte Cassino
• Clonmacnoise
• Iona
• Lindisfarne
• Streaneshalch
• Bercingum
• The monastery of St Peter and St Paul
• Kellia
• The Monastery of the Caves
• Nitria
• Sublacum
• The School of Nisibis
• The School of the Persians
• Armenian Apostolic Church
• Church of the East
• Coptic Orthodox Church
• Eastern Orthodox Church
• Roman Catholic Church
• Syriac Orthodox Church