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Saint Mellitus of Canterbury was a 7th-century Roman abbot who became the first Bishop of London and the third Archbishop of Canterbury. Sent to England by Pope Gregory I in 601 as part of Augustine of Canterbury's mission, Mellitus preached to the East Saxons and baptized King Sæberht. He was later banished by Sæberht's sons for refusing them communion and eventually succeeded to the archiepiscopate before his death in 624.
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