The Roman monk St. Augustine of Canterbury (died ca. 606) is known as the Apostle of England. He brought Christianity to England in the 6th century and became the first archbishop of Canterbury. Gregory the Great, before he became pope, had seen in a...

AUGUSTINE OF CANTERBURY (d. 604/5), leader of the first evangelistic mission to the Saxon peoples in southeastern England and first archbishop of Canterbury. Pope Gregory the Great (590–604) had conceived a mission to evangelize the Anglo-Saxons...

d. 604 Christian missionary and churchman who journeyed to England across Europe from Italy to re-establish the English Christian Church in 597. Born in Rome, he became a Benedictine monk at an early age. Sent to England by Pope Gregory I, he was...

Not to be confused with Doctor of the Church, St Augustine of...

Augustine of Canterbury. By Margaret Deanesly. Southampton: Saint Austin, 1997, vii + 167 pp., $22.95. Augustine of Canterbury (d. 604 or 605) is doubtlessly a significant figure in the Church's history, especially the church in England. Unfortunately, he has often been overlooked by...

A new museum to be dedicated in 1997 will feature exhibits on the history of the abbey founded by St Augustine in 598. The abbey ruins include the oldest surviving church monuments in England as well as parts of the church structures built on...