The word Anglican comes from the Latin and means "English", and refers to our Anglo-Saxon and Celtic spiritual heritage and roots in the ancient Church of the British Isles, which was established in AD 37, when St. Joseph of Arimathea brought the Gospel to Britain from Judea. The English Church was acknowledged by five Western Church Councils (Pisa, 1409; Constance, 1417; Sens, 1418; Sienna, 1424 and Basil, 1434) as the oldest Church outside of the Holy Land. Anglican Christianity came to North America with the early English explorers, missionaries and colonists, with the first parish established in 1607, at Jamestown, Virginia. George Washington and most of the founding fathers of the United States were Anglicans.