biography
pronunciation:
[pawliynus]
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| Roman Catholic missionary, and first archbishop of York. Sent to England with St Augustine in 601, he was consecrated bishop in 625 and went N with Princess Æthelburh of Kent on her marriage to the pagan King Edwin of Northumbria. He baptized Edwin and all his court in York at Easter, 627, and was made Bishop of York, becoming archbishop in 633. Edwin's death at the hands of the pagan Penda of Mercia and Cadwallon of Wales in 633 drove him back to Kent, where he was appointed Bishop of Rochester. |
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