This article is about the 7th century missionary and saint. For other uses, see Saint Paulinus (disambiguation) and Paulinus (disambiguation).
Saint
Paulinus
Bishop of York
Statue at Rochester Cathedral
Appointed
627
Term ended
633
Predecessor
Founder
Successor
Chad
Orders
Consecration
21 July 625 by Justus
Personal details
Died
10 October 644 Rochester, Kent
Buried
Rochester Cathedral
Sainthood
Feast day
10 October
Venerated in
Eastern Orthodox Church, Roman Catholic Church, Anglican Communion
Paulinus[a] (died 10 October 644) was a Roman missionary and the first Bishop of York.[b] A member of the Gregorian mission sent in 601 by Pope Gregory I to Christianize the Anglo-Saxons from their native Anglo-Saxon paganism, Paulinus arrived in England by 604 with the second missionary group. Little is known of Paulinus's activities in the following two decades.
After some years spent in Kent, perhaps in 625, Paulinus was consecrated a bishop. He accompanied Æthelburg of Kent, sister of King Eadbald of Kent, on her journey to Northumbria to marry King Edwin of Northumbria, and eventually succeeded in converting Edwin to Christianity. Paulinus also converted many of Edwin's subjects and built some churches. One of the women Paulinus baptised was a future saint, Hilda of Whitby.
Following Edwin's death in 633, Paulinus and Æthelburg fled Northumbria, leaving behind a member of Paulinus's clergy, James the Deacon. Paulinus returned to Kent, where he became Bishop of Rochester. He received a pallium from the pope, symbolizing his appointment as Archbishop of York, but too late to be effective. After his death in 644, Paulinus was canonized as a saint and is now venerated in the Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Anglican Churches.
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