Augustine of Canterbury

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c. 534 – c. 604 · b. Rome · Bishop of Canterbury

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First Archbishop of Canterbury. Sent by Pope Gregory the Great in 596 to evangelize the Anglo-Saxons; baptized King Æthelberht of Kent. Founder of the English church hierarchy.

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Who was Augustine of Canterbury?: Augustine of Canterbury (534–604) — First Archbishop of Canterbury. Sent by Pope Gregory the Great in 596 to evangelize the Anglo-Saxons; baptized King Æthelberht of Kent. Founder of the English church hierarchy.
Who taught Augustine of Canterbury?: Pope Gregory I (the Great).
Who did Augustine of Canterbury correspond with?: Pope Gregory I (the Great).
Who succeeded Augustine of Canterbury as bishop of Canterbury?: Theodore of Tarsus.

Sources for biography

Bede, Hist. Eccl. 1.23-2.3 primary
Gregory the Great, Registrum Epistolarum 6.51, 8.29, 11.36 primary

documented connections(2)

taught by Pope Gregory I (the Great)
Gregory commissioned Augustine to lead the mission to the Anglo-Saxons in 596 and exchanged letters with him giving instruction.
Bede, Hist. Eccl. 1.23-1.32 · Gregory the Great, Registrum Epistolarum 6.51, 11.36
corresponded (incoming) Pope Gregory I (the Great)
Surviving letters of Gregory to Augustine on missionary practice and church organization (the 'Libellus Responsionum').
Gregory the Great, Registrum 11.56a · Bede, Hist. Eccl. 1.27

tradition connections(1)

succeeded in see (incoming) Theodore of Tarsus
Theodore was the seventh (not direct) Archbishop of Canterbury after Augustine, sent by Pope Vitalian. The compressed succession is reported by Bede ~70 years later.
Bede, Hist. Eccl. 4.1

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