Lanfranc also reformed church infrastructure by doing what?

• A. Building churches in strategic places where more people could reach them.
• B. Closing rural churches.
• C. Converting churches into markets.
• D. Replacing all priests with monks.

Answer: (A)

Lanfranc aimed to strengthen and standardize the English church by extending its reach into key towns and along important routes. Building churches in strategic places made worship, sacraments, and clerical administration more accessible to more people, helping to anchor Norman authority and a unified organizational structure across England. This expansion of church sites supported the broader reform program, including Benedictine discipline and tighter diocesan governance, by ensuring a solid presence where communities gathered and could be connected to the wider church network. The other ideas would either shrink the church’s presence or misrepresent his reforms—he didn’t shut down rural worship, convert churches into markets, or replace every priest with monks.