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| 563 |
| | | St Columba establishes a monastery on the island of Iona, from which Celtic Christianity is carried to Scotland and northern England | |
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| c. 580 |
| | | St David founds monasteries in Wales and makes his base at Mynyw, a place now known after him as St David's | |
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| 589 |
| | | The word filioque ('and from the Son') becomes a major bone of contention between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches | |
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| 597 |
| | | Augustine, arriving with a party of monks from Rome, reaches Canterbury and is well received by the pagan king of Kent | |
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| c. 600 |
| | | Ritual intoning of the psalms, derived from Jewish synagogues, is formalized in Christian worship as Gregorian chant | |
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| c. 610 |
| | | St Columban founds a monastery at Bobbio, the furthest outpost of Celtic Christianity | |
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| 615 |
| | | When the Persians sack Jerusalem, they carry off to Ctesiphon Christianity's most sacred relic - the True Cross | |
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| c. 620 |
| | | The Irish monk St Aidan moves from Iona to establish a monastery on Lindisfarne | |
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| 627 |
| | | The Byzantine emperor Heraclius recovers the True Cross from Ctesiphon | |
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| 643 |
| | | The Coptic Christians of Egypt become isolated after the Muslim conquest | |
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