Episcopalianism / Anglicanism It seems probable that "the church" was introduced into the Roman province of Britain by the beginning of the third century, sometime between the years 208 and 240. No one knows how it came to Britain, perhaps across the sea with soldiers. It more probably came with the rich who built homes and bathed in the medicinal waters of Bath (Wakeman, 1). It was a very poor and insignificant church, but it was an organized branch of the Catholic Church, with Bishops at London and York (Wakeman, 2). As heathens entered the country from central and eastern Europe, they overtook Roma