Augustine of Canterbury

About This Bishop

Regnal dates: Unknown
Regnal length: 16 years
Profession before consecration: Unknown
Father: Unknown
Birth place: Unknown
Burial place: Unknown
Distinctive features: Unknown
Key players: Gregory the Great

Episcopal Stats

Miracles performed: Number unknown but described as "remarkable"
Dead revived: Unknown
People converted: Unknown
Priests ordained: Unknown
Precious objects donated: Unknown
Churches built: Unknown
Martyred: Unknown
Interesting fact: Sent by Pope Gregory the Great to minister to the Anglo-Saxons

William of Malmesbury’s Gesta Pontificum Anglorum begins with a single chapter on the early years of the see of Canterbury (597-690), a chapter based on Bede’s The Ecclesiastical History of the English People. (For more on this, see David Preest’s footnotes.) Still, each of the bishops mentioned is mentioned within the context of a discrete life that conforms to the structure of Carolingian gesta and the Liber Pontificalis.

Works cited: De Gestis pontificum Anglorum or The Deeds of the Bishops of England.