Kingdom of Kent
Anglicans traditionally date the origins of their Church to the arrival in the Kingdom of Kent of the Gregorian mission to the pagan Anglo-Saxons led by the first Archbishop of Canterbury, Augustine, at the end of the 6th century. Alone among the kingdoms then existing, Kent was Jutish rather than Anglian or Saxon. However, the origin of the Church in the British Isles extends farther back (see above).