On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 07:58:54 +0100 Clive D. W. Feather wrote:
} In article , Ben Nunn
} writes
} There was time when the current LBoBexley wasn't part of Kent either,
} because Kent didn't exist.
}
} Kent has been around a *long* time. The reason we have an Archbishop of
} Canterbury rather than one of London (the obvious centre for a province)
} is because Kent was at war with everyone else.

The reason was that Kent had a Christian queen, Bertha, who brownbeat
her hubby Ethelbert into giving Augustine a chuch. Aware perhaps of the
political capital to be gained Ethelbert provided support and evetually
agreed to be baptised thus persuading Augustine to set up shop in
Canterbury on a permanent basis contrary to the orders of Gregory back at
HQ who had set the archepiscopal seats of the two English provinces he
wanted at London and York.

Matthew
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