St. Augustine meets King Ethelbert for the first time. Augustine led the Gregorian mission from Rome to Britain to Christianize King Æthelberht and his Kingdom of Kent from Anglo-Saxon paganism. Augustine of Canterbury, early 6th century – c. 604. Roman monk who became the first Archbishop of Canterbury. Æthelberht aka Æthelbert, Aethelberht, Aethelbert or Ethelbert, c. 550 – 616. King of Kent from about 589 until his death. From History of England, to the present time, published 1907.

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