King Æthelberht of Kent, Mellitus ' other patron, died at about the same time, forcing him to take refuge in Gaul.

Mellitus died on 24 April 624, and was buried at St Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury that same day.

* April 24 – Mellitus, Archbishop of Canterbury

* 24 April 624: Mellitus dies and Justus succeeds him as archbishop of Canterbury.

* 24 April 624: Mellitus dies and Justus succeeds him as archbishop of Canterbury.

The pallium accompanying that letter indicates Justus was archbishop by that time, and the duration of Mellitus ’ s archiepiscopate means that even if Bede ’ s dates are somewhat wrong in other particulars, Eadbald was converted no earlier than 621, and no later than April 624, since Mellitus consecrated a church for Eadbald before his death in that month.

* 624 – Mellitus, English bishop, Archbishop of Canterbury

* Mellitus ( d. 624 )

After his death in 624, Mellitus was revered as a saint.

One is written to Justus after he had succeeded Mellitus as Archbishop of Canterbury in 624, conferring the pallium upon him and directing him to " ordain bishops as occasion should require.

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.

* 619 – 624: Eadbald builds a church which is consecrated by Archbishop Mellitus.

* Still later 624: the pope hears from Eadbald of his conversion, and also hears of Mellitus ’ s death.

When he and his brothers saw Mellitus ( d. 624 ), bishop of London, giving the eucharist to the people in church, they said to him, so it was commonly believed in the Venerable Bede's time, " Why do you not offer us the white bread that you used to give to our father Saba, for so they called him, and which you still give to the people?

After the death of Saebert in AD 616, Mellitus was driven out and the kingdom reverted to paganism.

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.

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.

Mellitus was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury in 619.

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.

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 ).

Bede says that Mellitus was exiled because he refused the brothers ' request for a taste of the sacramental bread.

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.

Mellitus fled first to Canterbury, but Æthelberht's successor Eadbald was also a pagan, so Mellitus, accompanied by Justus, took refuge in Gaul.

Mellitus was recalled to Britain by Laurence, the second Archbishop of Canterbury, after his conversion of Eadbald.

In the ninth century, Mellitus ' feast day was mentioned in the Stowe Missal, along with Laurence and Justus.

Their king, Saeberht, was converted early and a diocese was established at London, but its first bishop, Mellitus, was expelled by Saeberth's heirs.

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.

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.

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.

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 ".

* Mellitus becomes Bishop of London and founds the first St. Paul's Cathedral.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

They banished Mellitus, Bishop of London, from the kingdom after he refused them the sacramental bread.