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Justus
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| St Justus | ||
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Archbishop of Canterbury  |
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| Detail of a statue of Justus. Interior of Rochester Cathedral. | ||
| Enthroned | 624 | |
| Ended | 10 November 627 | |
| Predecessor | Mellitus | |
| Successor | Saint Honorius | |
| Died | 10 November 627 |
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| Buried | St Peter's Porch, Canterbury Cathedral[1] | |
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Sainthood |
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| Venerated in | Eastern Orthodox Church, Roman Catholic Church, Anglican Communion |
| Commemorated | November 10 |
| Attributes | archbishop carrying a Primatial cross[2] |
| Patronage | Volterra, Italy |
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Saint Justus (d. 10 November 627), was the fourth Archbishop of Canterbury.
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He was a Roman by birth, and was one of the missionaries sent to England, by Pope Gregory II, either at the request of St. Augustine of Canterbury in 601.[3][4][5][6] or possibly one of the original missionaries that arrived with Augustine in 597.[7]
He was conscrated bishop by Saint Augustine in 604, with a province to include the Kentish city Rochester,[8] which made him the first Bishop of Rochester.[9] While he was bishop, Justus and Mellitus subscribed a letter that Laurence wrote to the Celtic bishops urging the Celtic Church to adopt the Roman method of calculating the date of Easter.[10] When persecution broke out after the death of King Aethelbert of Kent, he fled to Gaul;[11] but a year later he was reinstated in his bishopric,[12] which he governed with diligence and care until, in 624,[9] he became Archbishop of Canterbury, receiving the pallium from Pope Boniface V. He consecrated Romanus as his successor as bishop of Rochester.[5]
Justus is known to have written to the British and Irish Christians, asking them to conform to the ways of the Church of Rome. An extract from one of his letters is included in Bede. The most notable event of his brief archiepiscopate was the evangelization of Northumbria. Paulinus was consecrated by Justus to be the first bishop of York[4] and within two years, King Edwin of Northumbria was baptised, with many of his people, in a little church which Paulinus had built at York, near where York Minster now stands. The news of Edwin's conversion was conveyed to Justus not long before his death, which is believed to have taken place on November 10, 627.[13] The modern Society of Archbishop Justus is named after Justus.[1] He was regarded as a saint following his death, and his feast day is November 10.[4]
One of the guilds at Bennett Memorial Diocesan School was named after him by Lady Bennett.
- ^ a b The Society of Archbishop Justus Article on St Justus accessed on September 6, 2007
- ^ Patron Saints Index: St. Justus of Canterbury accessed on November 3, 2007
- ^ Bede A History of the English Church and People translated by Leo Sherley-Price London:Penguin Books 1988 ISBN 0-14-044042-9' p. 85
- ^ a b c Delaney, John J. Dictionary of Saints Second Edition Doubleday: New York 2003 ISBN 0-385-13594-7 p. 354-355
- ^ a b Hunt, William "Justus [St Justus] (d. 627x31)" rev. N. P. Brooks, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2005 accessed November 7, 2007]
- ^ Stenton, F. M. Anglo-Saxon England Third Edition Oxford:Oxford University Press 1971 ISBN 978-0-19-280139-5 p. 109
- ^ Hindley, Geoffrey A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons: The beginnings of the English nation New York: Carrol & Graf Publishers 2006 ISBN 978-0-78671738-5 p. 65
- ^ Bede A History of the English Church and People translated by Leo Sherley-Price London:Penguin Books 1988 ISBN 0-14-044042-9 p. 104
- ^ a b Powicke, F. Maurice and E. B. Fryde Handbook of British Chronology 2nd. ed. London:Royal Historical Society 1961 p. 247
- ^ Stenton, F. M. Anglo-Saxon England Third Edition Oxford:Oxford University Press 1971 ISBN 978-0-19-280139-5 p. 112
- ^ Bede A History of the English Church and People translated by Leo Sherley-Price London:Penguin Books 1988 ISBN 0-14-044042-9 p. 109-112
- ^ Walsh, Michael A New Dictionary of Saints: East and West London: Burns & Oates 2007 ISBN 0-8601-2438-X p. 348
- ^ Powicke, F. Maurice and E. B. Fryde Handbook of British Chronology 2nd. ed. London:Royal Historical Society 1961 p. 209
- Catholic Online Saints and Angels: St Justus of Canterbury
- Catholic Encyclopedia St Justus
- Prosopography of Anglo Saxon England Justus of Canterbury entry
| Catholic Church titles | ||
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| Preceded by (diocese created) |
Bishop of Rochester 604–624 |
Succeeded by Romanus |
| Preceded by Mellitus |
Archbishop of Canterbury 624–627 |
Succeeded by Saint Honorius |
| Persondata | |
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| NAME | Justus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Justus of Canterbury |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Archbishop of Canterbury; Bishop of Rochester |
| DATE OF BIRTH | |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 10, 627 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | |