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* c. 619: Laurence dies, and Mellitus becomes archbishop of Canterbury.
* c. 619: Laurence dies, and Mellitus becomes archbishop of Canterbury.
Mellitus and Bishop
It produced relatively few Anglo-Saxon Charters and no version of the Anglo-Saxon chronicle ; in fact the only mention in the chronicle concerns Bishop Mellitus.
The earliest English record of the kingdom dates to Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, which noted the arrival of Bishop ( later Saint ) Mellitus in London in 604.
The second group included Mellitus, who later became Bishop of London and Archbishop of Canterbury.
Together with Mellitus, the Bishop of London, Justus signed a letter written by Archbishop Laurence of Canterbury to the Irish bishops urging the native church to adopt the Roman method of calculating the date of Easter.
Mellitus ( died 24 April 624 ) was the first Bishop of London in the Saxon period, the third Archbishop of Canterbury, and a member of the Gregorian mission sent to England to convert the Anglo-Saxons from their native paganism to Christianity.
Exactly when Mellitus and his party arrived in England is unknown, but he was certainly in the country by 604, when Augustine consecrated him as bishop in the province of the East Saxons, making Mellitus the first Bishop of London after the Roman departure ( London was the East Saxons ' capital ).
During his time as a bishop, Mellitus joined with Justus, the Bishop of Rochester, in signing a letter that Laurence wrote to the Celtic bishops urging the Celtic Church to adopt the Roman method of calculating the date of Easter.
During the pontificate of Boniface, Mellitus, the first Bishop of London, went to Rome " to consult the pope on important matters relative to the newly established English Church ".
The " letters of exhortation " which he is said to have addressed to Mellitus, Archbishop of Canterbury, and to Justus, Bishop of Rochester, are no longer extant, but certain other letters of his have been preserved.
According to a tradition first reported by Sulcard in about 1080, the Abbey was first founded in the time of Mellitus ( d. 624 ), Bishop of London, on the present site, then known as Thorn Ey ( Thorn Island ); based on a late tradition that a fisherman called Aldrich on the River Thames saw a vision of Saint Peter near the site.
With a capacity of 800 people it was designated St Mellitus, the name probably derived from the legend, propagated by Sir Montagu Sharpe, the Middlesex historian, that Mellitus, Bishop of the East Saxons, was instrumental in the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons of Hanwell.
In 604, the Gaulish churchman Mellitus was consecrated by Augustine as bishop in the province of the East Saxons, which had a capital at London, making him the first Bishop of London.
They banished Mellitus, Bishop of London, from the kingdom after he refused them the sacramental bread.
Mellitus and London
Mellitus also returned to England, but the prevailing pagan mood did not allow him to return to London ; after Laurence's death, Mellitus became Archbishop of Canterbury.
Mellitus was exiled from London by the pagan successors to his patron, King Sæberht of Essex, following the latter's death around 616.
Mellitus returned to England the following year, after Æthelberht's successor had been converted to Christianity, but he was unable to return to London, whose inhabitants remained pagan.
Although Gregory had intended London to be the southern archbishopric for the island, Augustine never moved his episcopal see to London, and instead consecrated Mellitus as a plain bishop there.
Sæberht's three sons had not converted to Christianity, and drove Mellitus from London.
In Higham's view, Sæberht's sons drove Mellitus from London because they had passed from Kentish overlordship to East Anglian, and thus no longer needed to keep Mellitus, who was connected with the Kentish kingdom, in office.
However, Mellitus did not return to London, because the East Saxons remained pagan.
Their king, Saeberht, was converted early and a diocese was established at London, but its first bishop, Mellitus, was expelled by Saeberth's heirs.
Sæberht, the king of Essex, had become a Christian under Æthelberht's influence, but on Sæberht's death, at about the same time, his sons expelled Mellitus, the bishop of London.
At about this time Mellitus, bishop of London, is expelled by the sons of Sæberht in Essex, and goes to Kent.
Eadbald's reduced power is apparent in his inability to restore Mellitus to the see of London: in Bede's words, his authority in Essex " was not so effective as that of his father ".
Mellitus and first
The first time Mellitus is mentioned in history is in the letters of Gregory, and nothing else of his background is known.
Pope Gregory I sent Mellitus to England in June 601, in response to an appeal from Augustine, the first Archbishop of Canterbury.
Mellitus fled first to Canterbury, but Æthelberht's successor Eadbald was also a pagan, so Mellitus, accompanied by Justus, took refuge in Gaul.
Shortly after the Norman Conquest, Goscelin wrote a life of Mellitus, the first of several to appear around that time, but none contain any information not included in Bede's earlier works.
By the turn of the century this was no longer sufficient and it was decided to create an additional parish, St Mellitus, the first in the Anglican Communion to bear that name.
Mellitus and St
Passion scenes from the St Augustine Gospels, possibly brought by Mellitus to England
Examination of the remaining manuscripts has determined that one possible survivor of Mellitus ' books is the St. Augustine Gospels, now in Cambridge, as Corpus Christi College, MS ( manuscript ) 286.
Mellitus died on 24 April 624, and was buried at St Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury that same day.
In 1980, with the retirement of the then vicar of St Mark's, the two parishes were merged, now known as St Mellitus with St Mark's.
* 616 / 617: Some time after Mellitus and Justus depart, Laurence, the archbishop of Canterbury, plans to leave for Francia, but has a vision in which St Peter scourges him.
After his retirement he served as Assistant Priest at the Church of St. Mellitus, Tollington Park, London ( 1983 – 1990, where on one occasion in the sacristy he was attacked by intruders and hit over the head with a crucifix but suffered no lasting injury ), and at the Church of Our Lady and St. Joseph, Poplar, London ( 1990 – 1994 ).
Mellitus and .
* Mellitus ( d. 624 )
After the death of Saebert in AD 616, Mellitus was driven out and the kingdom reverted to paganism.
A pagan backlash against Christianity followed Æthelberht's death in 616, forcing Justus and Mellitus to flee to Gaul.
According to Bede, Justus received letters of encouragement from Pope Boniface V ( 619 – 625 ), as did Mellitus, although Bede does not record the actual letters.
The ninth century Stowe Missal commemorates his feast day, along with Mellitus and Laurence.
It is known that Laurence returned to England with Mellitus and others of the second group of missionaries in the summer of 601, but there is no record of Peter being with them.
Mellitus was the recipient of a famous letter from Pope Gregory I known as the Epistola ad Mellitum, preserved in a later work by the medieval chronicler Bede, which suggested the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons be undertaken gradually, integrating pagan rituals and customs.
In 610, Mellitus returned to Italy to attend a council of bishops, and returned to England bearing papal letters to some of the missionaries.
King Æthelberht of Kent, Mellitus ' other patron, died at about the same time, forcing him to take refuge in Gaul.
Mellitus was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury in 619.
After his death in 624, Mellitus was revered as a saint.
The medieval chronicler Bede described Mellitus as being of noble birth.
In letters, Pope Gregory I called him an abbot, but it is unclear whether Mellitus had previously been abbot of a Roman monastery, or this was a rank bestowed on him to ease his journey to England by making him the leader of the expedition.
" Thomas of Elmham, a 15th-century Canterbury chronicler, claimed that in his day there were a number of the books brought to England by Mellitus still at Canterbury.
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