During a huge part of his reign, Offa wanted to strengthen ties with the Church. Offa created a great sense of stability with the church. Generally, all of his relations with the Church were positive for him, but also created a great sense of positivity for the Church as well. He created this sense of alliance by the means of promoting the Church to enemies and by building more and more churches throughout his kingdom. Offa than thought of creating ideas such as a parish system from the new archdiocese that was formed between Pope Adrian and Offa in Lichfield. This split was formed between the new archdiocese and the Church of Canterbury. While he gained a form of local government throughout these parishes the Church gained a bishop to
