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 551 ROCHESTER.

darics; four of the prebends were in the gift of the Crown, of which one was by act of Parliament (11 A 1111. e.vi. stat. 2. 1 ) annexed to the prOYOStship of Oriel college, Oxford, and another to the archdeaconry bj letters patent of Charles I. At present there are the dean, the archdeacons of Rochester, St. Albans, Chi- chester and Essex, four canons, and one honorary canon.

BISHOPS.

Alter Augustine bad established the archbishopric of Canterbury, king Aethelberct founded and endowed the bishoprics of London and Rochester; to the latter

A.UgU8tine ordained

604 di - 1 1 - in 604, who had been sent into Britain by pop< Gregory. He was translated to Canterbury in 6:4 upon the death of M. 1 1 i t u <, and was succeeded at Rochester by

624 Hum \ \i s, whom he ordahu d. He Was * nl on a mis- sion to pope Honorius bj archbishop Justus, and n drowned in the Italian sea. The date of this occur- rence is nol known, but it must have been before No- vember 630, a* Justus died at that time. Paulini b, archbishop of Vor&, who was exiled from his see. was made bishop of Rochester by King Eadbald, and consecrated by archbishop Honorius, soon after Oct. 633. He died loth Oct. 644''.

644 Ithamae, a Kentish man, was ordained bishop of Ro- chester on the death of Paulinus by archbishop Ho- norius". 1 le died in 655.

656 Dam 1 an 8 was consecrated bishop of Rochester by

��1 Called also 13 Ann. c. vi. " Honorius archiepiscopus or-

- Bed. Hist. Eccl. lib. ii. c. 8. dinavit Ithamar, oriundum qm-

8 Ibid. dem de gente Cantuariorum.

4 Absorptus fuerat fluctibus Bed. Hist. Keel. lib. iii. c. 14.

Italici maris. Bed. Hist. Eccl. 8 Qui de genere Australium

lib. ii. c. 20. Saxonum erat oriundus. Bed.

' Bed. Hist. Eccl. lib. ii. c. 20. Hist. Eccl. lib. iii. c. 20. 1 Ibid. lib. iii. c. 14.

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