The consecration of Augustine as the first Archbishop of Canterbury

• After the baptism of the King, Augustine made his way to Arles to be ordained as the first Archbishop of the English.
• His ordination according to the tradition was on Sunday 16th November AD 597( He must be consecrated earlier: notice that 16th of November of that year was not Sunday, and that the letter of Gregory to  Queen Brunhild which was in September 597 refered to Augustine as a fellow bishop)
• Bede wrote:
  Augustine, went to Arles and, In accordance with the command of Pope Gregory, was consecrated archbishop of the English race by Etherius(!), the archbishop of that city
• Notice that Bede made a mistake as Etherius was a bishop of Lyon.
• It is most probably that he traveled to Arles and invested as bishop of the English by Bishop Virgilius
• But we may consider an alternative hypothesis; that Bede was right; Augustine was consecrated in Lyon. The fact that Gregory in his letter to Eulogius mentioned that Augustine was consecrated by the Bishop of Germany (i.e. most probably the Frankish bishops of the Northern Gauls).
• Augustine received the pall from Pope Gregory in the year A.D. 601.