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Augustine of Canterbury (early 6th century – most likely 26 May 604) was a Christian monk who became the first archbishop of Canterbury in the year 597. He is considered the "Apostle to the English".
The mission was headed by Augustine of Canterbury. By the time of the death of the last missionary in 653, the mission had established Christianity among the southern Anglo-Saxons. Along with the Irish and Frankish missions it converted Anglo-Saxons in other parts of Britain as well and influenced the Hiberno-Scottish missions to continental Europe
They restored a church in Canterbury that dated to the time of the Roman occupation, possibly the present-day St Martin's Church. [21] Liudhard does not appear to have made many converts among the Anglo-Saxons, [ 22 ] and his mention by Bede is only corroborated by a gold coin bearing an inscription that refers to a bishop by his name.
Statue of Augustine of Canterbury from Canterbury Cathedral. 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]
Pope Gregory I sent the first Archbishop of Canterbury, Augustine, to southern England in 597. The process of conversion usually proceeded from the top of the social hierarchy downwards, generally peacefully, with a local ruler choosing to convert, whereupon his subjects then also nominally became Christian.
Justin Welby was announced in late 2012 as the 105th archbishop of Canterbury. He said on November 12 2024 that he was to stand down following failures in handling a Church abuse scandal involving ...
Augustine established his base at the main town of Canterbury. [16] He took over an old Roman church that he named Christ Church (now Canterbury Cathedral). [17] Augustine also founded the Monastery of SS. Peter and Paul (later known as St Augustine's Abbey) outside the city. [18] Æthelberht was probably converted and baptised in 601. [19]
591-628 Theodelinda, Queen of the Lombards, began gradual conversion from Arianism to Nicene Creed; 596 St. Augustine of Canterbury sent by Pope Gregory to evangelise the Jutes; 596 - Gregory the Great sends Augustine and a team of missionaries to (what is now) England to reintroduce the Gospel.