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On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 19:20:01 -0700, you wrote:
>Mellitus (d. 624) Mellitus was the first bishop of London (at least the
>first post-Roman one; I assume that London had an episcopal see in the
>late Roman Empire (?)). He had come to England in 601 at the head of a
>group of missionary reinforcements sent by Gregory the Great. M. became
>bishop of the East Saxons in 604. He was expelled when the king who
>sponsored him
>died, but after a time in Gaul M. returned to England to become archbishop
>of Canterbury.
According to the diocesan yearbook, the first bishop whose name is known
for certain was Bishop Restitutus, who attended a council at Arles in 314.
Gordon
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