Justus
7th-century missionary, Archbishop of Canterbury, and saint
b. 6th century
4th Archbishop of Canterbury · c. 624–c. 627
Offices
- Archbishop of Canterbury № 4 · c. 624 – c. 627
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.
Related people
- Augustine of Canterbury consecrated by · traditional
- Mellitus succeeded · inferred
- Romanus consecrator of · traditional
- Paulinus of York consecrator of · documented
- Honorius preceded · inferred
Commemorated
Places
- Rome birth
- St Augustine's Abbey burial
- Canterbury death
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Registrum Sacrum Anglicanum 1 claim — Registrum Sacrum Anglicanum — the see of Canterbury