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Hierarch · 7th century

Saint Augustine Archbishop of Canterbury

Also known as Augustine of Canterbury · Evangelizer of England

A monk of Rome whom St Gregory the Dialogist sent with forty brethren to preach to the English; landing in Kent in 597, he baptized King Ethelbert and his people and became the first archbishop of Canterbury.

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Notes

Pre-schism Western saint; not Augustine of Hippo.

Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints