Augustine arrival circa 597

We cannot accurately record the history of Christianity in Britain, unless we include the falsification of Christianity by Rome. The information on Augustine, below, is directly from the Encyclopedia Brittanica. It states that when Augustine arrived in Britain, it was largely Pagan. This puzzled me for a few minutes, until I could see that Augustine landed on the Isle of Thanet, which is in the Thames estuary. In 597AD, this would have been in Saxon occupied territory, and of course, Pagan. There would have been little contact with British Christianity, which started in Britain, 560 years earlier.
So Pope Gregory sent Augustine to bring Roman Christianity to the Anglo-Saxons, before they could be converted to British Christianity. Gregory would have been well aware, that the oldest college in the United Kingdom, Cor Tewdws, Llantwit Major, was founded c. 395 AD in honour of the Roman Emperor Theodosius I. It was refounded by St. Illud, in 508 AD, from whom it derives its present name. This was still 90 years before Augustine's arrival. So what was the motive? Theodosius I had declared Cor Tewdws to be Nicene Christianity
Probably of aristocratic birth, Augustine was prior of the Benedictine monastery of St. Andrew, Rome, when Pope St. Gregory I the Great chose him to lead an unprecedented mission of about 40 monks to England, which was then largely pagan. They left in June 596, but, arriving in southern Gaul, they were warned of the perils awaiting them and sent Augustine back to Rome. There Gregory encouraged him with letters of commendation (dated July 23, 596), and he set out once more.
The entourage landed in the spring of 597 on the Isle of Thanet, off the southeast coast of England, and was well received by King Aethelberht (Ethelbert) I of Kent, who gave the missionaries a dwelling place in Canterbury and the old St. Martin’s Church, where he allowed them to preach. With Aethelberht’s support, their work led to many conversions, including that of the King. In the following autumn Augustine was consecrated bishop of the English by St. Virgilius at Arles.
Thousands of Aethelberht’s subjects were reportedly baptized by Augustine on Christmas Day 597, and he subsequently dispatched two of his monks to Rome with a report of this extraordinary event and a request for further help and advice. They returned in 601 with the pallium (i.e., symbol of metropolitan jurisdiction) from Gregory for Augustine and with more missionaries, including the celebrated saints Mellitus, Justus, and Paulinus. Gregory, with whom Augustine corresponded throughout his apostolate, directed him to purify pagan temples for Christian worship and to consecrate 12 suffragan bishops; thus, he was given authority over the bishops in Britain, and the evangelization of the Kingdom of Kent began.

Augustine founded Christ Church, Canterbury, as his cathedral and the monastery of St. Peter and Paul (known after his death as St. Augustine’s, where the early archbishops were buried), which came to rank as the second Benedictine house in all Europe. Canterbury thus was established as the primatial see of England, a position maintained thereafter. In 604 he established the episcopal sees of London (for the East Saxons), consecrating Mellitus as its bishop, and of Rochester, consecrating Justus as its bishop.
At a conference with British bishops, Augustine tried in vain to unify the British (Celtic) churches of North Wales and the churches he was founding. A second conference, his last recorded act, proved equally fruitless. Augustine was buried at St. Peter and Paul.