Justus

7th-century missionary, Archbishop of Canterbury, and saint

b. 6th century

4th Archbishop of Canterbury · c. 624–c. 627

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Justus was the fourth archbishop of Canterbury. Pope Gregory the Great sent Justus from Italy to England on a mission to Christianise the Anglo-Saxons from their native paganism; he probably arrived with the second group of missionaries dispatched in 601. Justus became the first bishop of Rochester in 604 and signed a letter to the Irish bishops urging the native Celtic church to adopt the Roman method of calculating the date of Easter. He attended a church council in Paris in 614.

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Recorded as a historical figure.

  • Registrum Sacrum Anglicanum 1 claim — Registrum Sacrum Anglicanum — the see of Canterbury

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