PAULINUS (d. 644)  , first bishop of the Northumbrians and archbishop of York, was sent to England by Pope Gregory I. in 6o1 to assist Augustine in his mission . He was consecrated by Justus of Canterbury in 625 and escorted iEthelberg, daughter of IEthelberht, to the Northumbrian king Edwin (q.v.) . In 627 Edwin was baptized and assigned York to Paulinus as his see . It was at Lincoln that he consecrated Honorius as archbishop of Canterbury . In 633 Edwin was slain at Hatfield Chase and Paulinus retired to Kent, where he became bishop of Rochester . The pallium was not sent him until 634, when he had withdrawn from his province . He died in 644 . See Bede, Historea ecclesiastica (ed . C .