6th-century missionary, archbishop, and saint
b. 6th century · d. 600s
1st Archbishop of Canterbury
Augustine of Canterbury was a Christian monk who became the first Archbishop of Canterbury in the year 597. He was the prior of a Benedictine monastery in Rome when Pope Gregory I chose him in 595 to lead a mission, usually known as the Gregorian mission, to Britain to Christianize King Æthelberht and his Kingdom of Kent from Anglo-Saxon paganism.
Rome · Canterbury · St Augustine's Abbey