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BONIFACE V

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 207 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BONIFACE V  ., pope from 619 to 625, did much for the christianizing of England . Bede mentions (Hist . Ecd.) that he wrote encouraging letters to Mellitus, archbishop of Canterbury, and Justus, bishop of Rochester, and quotes three letters—to Justus, to Eadwin, king of Northumbria, and to his wife IEthelberga . William of Malmesbury gives a letter to Justus of the
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year 625, in which Canterbury is constituted the metropolitan see of Britain for ever .

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