Justus

Saint Justus
Archbishop of Canterbury
Gravestone marking the burial site of Justus in St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury
Appointed	624
Term ended	November 10, between 627 and 631
Predecessor	Mellitus
Successor	Honorius
Other post(s)	Bishop of Rochester
Orders
Consecration	604 by Augustine of Canterbury
Personal details
Died	on 10 November between 627 and 631
Buried	St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury
Sainthood
Feast day	10 November
Venerated in	Eastern Orthodox Church Roman Catholic Church[1] Anglican Communion
Canonized	Pre-congregation, prior to formal canonisation process
Attributes	archbishop carrying a Primatial cross[2]
Shrines	St Augustine's, Canterbury

Justus^[a] (died on 10 November between 627 and 631) was the fourth Archbishop of Canterbury. Pope Gregory the Great sent Justus from Italy to England on a mission to Christianize the Anglo-Saxons from their native paganism, probably arriving with the second group of missionaries despatched in 601. Justus became the first Bishop of Rochester in 604 and attended a church council in Paris in 614.

Following the death of King Æthelberht of Kent in 616, Justus was forced to flee to Gaul but was reinstated in his diocese the following year. In 624, Justus became Archbishop of Canterbury, overseeing the despatch of missionaries to Northumbria. After his death, he was revered as a saint and had a shrine in St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury.

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