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Justus was an Italian and a member of the Gregorian mission sent to England by Pope Gregory I.

Almost everything known about Justus and his career is derived from the early 8th-century Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum of Bede.

As Bede does not describe Justus ' origins, nothing is known about him prior to his arrival in England.

He probably arrived in England with the second group of missionaries, sent at the request of Augustine of Canterbury in 601.

Some modern writers describe Justus as one of the original missionaries who arrived with Augustine in 597, but Bede believed that Justus came in the second group.

The second group included Mellitus, who later became Bishop of London and Archbishop of Canterbury.