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Biography:
St. Columba (521-597), descended from Irish royalty, was a key figure in the spread of
Christianity through Scotland. He was ordanied a priest in 551 and founded several
monasteries in Ireland and later, in 563, to Iona (a small island in the Inner
Hebrides), where he and twelve companions established a monastery.
From there they established other monastaries around Scotland and on other, nearby islands. Columba was not actually a bishop, but he nevertheless exercised a great deal of ecclesiastical authority in the region and even consecrated the new king of the Scots in 574. Iona remained the center of the Irish church until the Synod of Whitby in 664 caused a schism among the monks.
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