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Saint Justus (d. 10 November 627), by birth a Roman, was one of the missionaries who was sent to England, by Pope Gregory II, at the request of St. Augustine of Canterbury in 601.He was appointed to be the first Bishop of Rochester . When persecution broke out after the death of King Aethelbert of Kent, he fled to Gaul; but, a year later, he was reinstated in his bishopric, which he governed with diligence and care until, in 624, he became Archbishop of Canterbury, receiving the pallium from Pope Boniface V. He consecrated Romanus as his successor as Bishop of Rochester.
Justus is known to have written to the British and Irish Christians, asking them to conform to the ways of the Church of RomeRome ( Italian and Latin Roma is the capital city of Italy, and of its Lazio region. It is located on the lower Tiber river, near the Mediterranean Sea, at 41°50'N, 12°15'E. The Vatican City State, a sovereign enclave within Rome, is the seat of the Roman. An extract from one of his letters is included in BedeBede commonly known as the Venerable Bede (c. 672 May 25, 735) was a monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Wearmouth (today part of Sunderland), and of its daughter monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow. He is well known as an author an. He does not come across as terribly tactful and the letter was largely ignored. The most notable event of his brief archiepiscopate was the evangelization of NorthumbriaNorthumbria was one of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in England, named because it was to the north of the River Humber. It was one of the Heptarchy. The name survives as an alternative description for North East England, which formed the heartland of the Kingd. PaulinusPaulinus/Paullinus is a Roman cognomen that can refer to: Gaius Suetonius Paullinus, general who defeated Boudica Marcus Iunius Caesonius Nicomachus Anicius Faustus Paulinus, consul in 298 Sextus Anicius Faustus Paulinus, consul in 325 Amnius Manius Caeso was consecrated by Justus to be the first Archbishop of YorkThe Archbishop of York Primate of England, is the metropolitan of the Province of York, and the junior of the two archbishops of the Church of England, after the Archbishop of Canterbury. His cathedral is York Minster in central York and his official resi and, within two years, King Edwin of Northumbria was baptised, with many of his people, in a little church which he had built at York, near where now York MinsterYork Minster is an imposing Gothic cathedral in York, northern England. It has a very wide Decorated Gothic nave and chapter house, a Perpendicular Gothic choir and east end, and Early English north and south transepts. The nave contains the West Window,, stands. The good news was conveyed to Justus not long before his death, which is believed to have taken place in 627.
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