List of members of the Gregorian mission

After a long trip, during which they almost gave up and returned to Rome, they arrived in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Kent in 597.

[2] Gregory sent a second group of missionaries in 601 as reinforcements, along with books and relics for the newly founded churches.

[5] The main source for information on the missionaries is the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum of the medieval writer Bede, written around 731.

Another important source of information is the papal registers which list copies of Gregory's letters sent to the missionaries.

[1] As well as the five archbishops, three other members of the mission are regarded as saints: Peter, James the Deacon, and Paulinus.