Biography

Christ Church, Canterbury was founded in the sixteenth century by a party of Roman monks under the direction of Augustine, dispatched to Britain by Pope Gregory I. On their arrival in late 596 or early 597 the group was received by the Anglo-Saxon ruler Æthelberht of Kent, who provided them with accommodation in his prinicipal town, Canterbury. Following Æthelberht's conversion to Christianity and his baptism, he granted a property to Augustine. The church contained within this property, which dated from Roman times, was consecrated by Augustine, and as Christ Church became the see of Canterbury.

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