The Archbishops after Augustine

• St Augustine was succeeded in the episcopate by Laurence.
• When Laurence had acquired the rank of archbishop, he continued building up the foundations of the church which had been so magnificently laid and to raise it to its destined height.
• Not only undertook the charge of the new Church which had been gathered from among the English, but he also endeavoured to bestow his pastoral care upon the older inhabitants of Britain as well as upon those Irish who live in Ireland, which is an island close to Britain.
• He continued the efforts of St. Augustine to bring the Celtic church in full union with the universal church.
• He wrote a letter of exhortation in conjunction with his fellow bishops, beseeching and warning them to keep the unity of peace and of catholic observance with the Church of Christ which is scattered over the whole world.
• About AD 610 Mellitus, bishop of London, went to Rome to confer with Pope Boniface about the needs of the English Church.
• The pope  had summoned a synod in AD 610 (the eighth year of the Emperor Phocas) of the bishops of Italy to draw up regulations concerning monastic life and harmony. Mellitus himself took his place , representing the English church.
• Pope Boniface also sent with them letters written to Archbishop Laurence, and to all the clergy, as well as a letter to King Ethelbert and to the English people.
• In AD 619 Archbishop Laurence died and Bishop Mellitus succeeded him
• In AD 624 Bishop Justus became the forth Archbishop of the English.
• In AD 635 the first Anglo-Saxon (Honorius) became the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The aftermath of the mission

• King Ethelbert died in 24th February 616i
• Paulinus, one of the missionaries, Converted of Northumbria.