The first Archbishop of Canterbury. He was chosen (596) by Pope Gregory the Great to convert the English to Christianity. With forty monks Augustine came first to Kent (597) and converted King Ethelbert, whose wife was already a Christian. Consecrated archbishop (597), Augustine organized the church into twelve dioceses (598) but failed at a meeting with the Celtic bishops in 603 to resolve the differences between the Roman and Celtic churches, although these differences were resolved at the Synod of Whitby (664). Augustine’s work was instrumental in the re‐establishment of Christianity in England.