19 September 690 A.D. Theodore of Tarsus Died—One of the Good Archbishops of Canterbury (7th of 105)
19 September 690 A.D. Theodore of Tarsus Died—One of the Good Archbishops of Canterbury (7 th of 105) Editors. “Saint Theodore of Canterbury.” Encyclopedia Britannica. 18 Jun 2013. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/590646/Saint-Theodore-of-Canterbury . Accessed 22 May 2014. Saint Theodore of Canterbury , (born c. 602, Tarsus , Cilicia , Asia Minor—died Sept. 19, 690, Canterbury , Kent , Eng.; feast day September 19), seventh archbishop of Canterbury and the first archbishop to rule the whole English Church. Appointed by Pope St. Vitalian, Theodore was consecrated in 668 and then set out from Rome with SS. Adrian , abbot of Nerida, Italy, and Benedict Biscop, later abbot of Wearmouth and Jarrow, Durham. In 669 they reached Canterbury, where Theodore made Adrian the abbot of SS. Peter and Paul monastery, afterward named St. Augustine’s. There they created a famous school influential in the...