Justus

St Justus Archbishop of Canterbury

Detail of a statue of Justus. Interior of Rochester Cathedral.

Enthroned {{{began}}} Ended on 10 Novemberbetween 627 to 631 Predecessor MellitusSuccessor Saint HonoriusConsecration 624 Died on 10 Novemberbetween 627 to 631
Buried St Peter's Porch, Canterbury Cathedral[1]

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For other uses, see Justus (disambiguation).

Saint Justus (d. 10 November between 627 to 631), was the fourth Archbishop of Canterbury.

1 Life
2 Memory
3 References
4 External links

Life

He was a Roman by birth, and was one of the missionaries sent to England, by Pope Gregory II, either at the request of St. Augustine of Canterbury in 601.[3][4][5][6] or possibly one of the original missionaries that arrived with Augustine in 597.[7]

He was consecrated bishop by Saint Augustine in 604, with a province to include the Kentish city Rochester,[8][9] which made him the first Bishop of Rochester.[10] While he was bishop, Justus and Mellitus subscribed a letter that Laurence wrote to the Celtic bishops urging the Celtic Church to adopt the Roman method of calculating the date of Easter.[11] When persecution broke out after the death of King Aethelbert of Kent, he fled to Gaul;[12] but a year later he was reinstated in his bishopric,[13] which he governed with diligence and care until, in 624,[10] he became Archbishop of Canterbury, receiving the pallium from Pope Boniface V. He consecrated Romanus as his successor as bishop of Rochester.[5]

In 614 he attended the Council of Paris, held by Chlothar II.[14]

The most notable event of his brief archiepiscopate was the evangelization of Northumbria. Paulinus was consecrated by Justus to be the first bishop of York [4] and within two years, King Edwin of Northumbria was baptised, with many of his people, in a little church which Paulinus had built at York, near where York Minster now stands. The news of Edwin's conversion was conveyed to Justus not long before his death, which is believed to have taken place on November 10 between 627 to 631.[15] The modern Society of Archbishop Justus is named after Justus.[1] He was regarded as a saint following his death, and his feast day is November 10.[4]

Memory

One of the guilds at Bennett Memorial Diocesan School was named after him by Lady Bennett.

References

^ a b The Society of Archbishop Justus Article on St Justus accessed on September 6, 2007
^ Patron Saints Index: St. Justus of Canterbury accessed on November 3, 2007
^ Bede A History of the English Church and People translated by Leo Sherley-Price London:Penguin Books 1988 ISBN 0-14-044042-9' p. 85
^ a b c Delaney, John J. Dictionary of Saints Second Edition Doubleday: New York 2003 ISBN 0-385-13594-7 p. 354-355
^ a b Hunt, William "Justus [St Justus] (d. 627x31)" rev. N. P. Brooks, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2005 accessed November 7, 2007]
^ Stenton, F. M. Anglo-Saxon England Third Edition Oxford:Oxford University Press 1971 ISBN 978-0-19-280139-5 p. 109
^ Hindley, Geoffrey A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons: The beginnings of the English nation New York: Carrol & Graf Publishers 2006 ISBN 978-0-78671738-5 p. 65
^ Bede A History of the English Church and People translated by Leo Sherley-Price London:Penguin Books 1988 ISBN 0-14-044042-9 p. 104
^ Brooks, Nicholas (1984). The Early History of the Church of Canterbury: Christ Church from 597 to 1066. London: Leicester University Press, p. 11. ISBN 0-7185-0041-5.
^ a b Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology, Third Edition, revised, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 221. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
^ Stenton, F. M. Anglo-Saxon England Third Edition Oxford:Oxford University Press 1971 ISBN 978-0-19-280139-5 p. 112
^ Bede A History of the English Church and People translated by Leo Sherley-Price London:Penguin Books 1988 ISBN 0-14-044042-9 p. 109-112
^ Walsh, Michael A New Dictionary of Saints: East and West London: Burns & Oates 2007 ISBN 0-8601-2438-X p. 348
^ Wood, Ian. "The Mission of Augustine of Canterbury to the English". Speculum 69 (1): 1-17.
^ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology, Third Edition, revised, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 213. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.

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Roman Catholic Church titlesPreceded by
(diocese created) Bishop of Rochester
604–624 Succeeded by
RomanusPreceded by
Mellitus Archbishop of Canterbury
624–c.627 Succeeded by
Saint Honorius

PersondataNAME Justus ALTERNATIVE NAMES Justus of Canterbury SHORT DESCRIPTION Archbishop of Canterbury; Bishop of Rochester DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH November 10, 627X631 PLACE OF DEATH

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