Augustine of Canterbury
6th-century missionary, archbishop, and saint
b. 6th century · d. 600s
1st Archbishop of Canterbury · c. 597–c. 604
Offices
- Archbishop of Canterbury № 1 · c. 597 – c. 604
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.
Related people
- Virgilius of Arles consecrated by · traditional
- Gregory I sent by · traditional
- Laurence of Canterbury consecrator of · traditional
- Mellitus consecrator of · traditional
- Justus consecrator of · traditional
- Laurence of Canterbury preceded · inferred
Events
Commemorated
Places
- Rome travel
- Canterbury ministry
- St Augustine's Abbey burial
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Ecclesiastical History of the English People 1 claim — The Gregorian mission lands in Kent
- Registrum Sacrum Anglicanum 1 claim — Registrum Sacrum Anglicanum — the see of Canterbury