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Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine
The first Archbishop of Canterbury was St Augustine, a missionary who arrived on the coast of Kent in AD 597. St Augustine came from Rome, sent by Pope Gregory the Great.
There is evidence that by AD 998 there was a Benedictine monastic community at Canterbury. This community continued until the monastery was dissolved in 1540.
The image above shows a statue of Richard II (1367-1400), located in the Cathedral. Richard was nine years old when he became king.
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