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The Gregorian mission [1] or Augustinian mission [2] was a Christian mission sent by Pope Gregory the Great in 596 to convert Britain's Anglo-Saxons. [3] The mission was headed by Augustine of Canterbury .
Pope Gregory I (Latin: Gregorius I; c. 540 – 12 March 604), commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was the 64th Bishop of Rome from 3 September 590 to his death. [1] [a] He is known for instituting the first recorded large-scale mission from Rome, the Gregorian mission, to convert the then largely pagan Anglo-Saxons to Christianity. [2]
The Gregorian mission was a group of Italian monks and priests sent by Pope Gregory the Great to Britain in the late 6th and early 7th centuries to convert and Christianize the Anglo-Saxons from their native Anglo-Saxon paganism. [1] The first group consisted of about 40 monks and priests, some of whom had been monks in Gregory's own monastery ...
Sources make no mention of why Pope Gregory chose a monk to head the mission. Pope Gregory once wrote to Æthelberht complimenting Augustine's knowledge of the Bible, so Augustine was evidently well educated. Other qualifications included administrative ability, for Gregory was the abbot of St Andrews as well as being pope, which left the day ...
Pope Gregory I (590–604) sent the first missionaries to the Anglo-Saxons, and this mission ultimately culminated in England's absorption into the western patriarchate. [12] Gregory chose Augustine to lead the mission to the Kingdom of Kent. [13] King Æthelberht of Kent was bretwalda, a position that gave him influence over other Anglo-Saxon ...
Gregory dictating, from a 10th-century manuscript. Around 150 years after the last recorded appeal from Britons to Roman authorities for help, in 597, the Gregorian mission was launched. [9] [25] It was led by Augustine and included Frankish interpreters and around 40 monks.
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The Libellus is a reply by Pope Gregory I to questions posed by Augustine of Canterbury about certain disciplinary, administrative, and sacral problems he was facing as he tried to establish a bishopric amongst the Kentish people following the initial success of the Gregorian mission in 596. [6]