Paulinus of York, English bishop and missionary

Paulinus of York

Christian missionary and saint, first bishop of York (died 644)

Paulinus was a Roman missionary and the first Bishop of York. A member of the Gregorian mission sent in 601 by Pope Gregory I to Christianize the Anglo-Saxons from their native Anglo-Saxon paganism, Paulinus arrived in England by 604 with the second missionary group. Little is…