Augustine ya sauka a tsibirin Thanet kuma ya wuce zuwa babban garin King Æthelberht na Canterbury.Ya kasance farkon gidan sufi a Rome lokacin da Paparoma Gregory Mai Girma ya zabe shi a cikin 595 don jagorantar aikin Gregorian zuwa Biritaniya zuwa Kiristanci da Mulkin Kent daga arna na Anglo-Saxon na asali.Wataƙila an zaɓi Kent ne domin Æthelberht ya auri wata gimbiya Kirista, Bertha, ’yar Charibert I sarkin Paris, wadda ake tsammanin za ta yi tasiri a kan mijinta.An canza Æthelberht zuwa Kiristanci , an kafa majami'u, kuma an fara babban juzu'i zuwa Kiristanci a masarautar.