597

Events of the year 597 AD
==Events==
* Establishment of Diocese of Canterbury.
* Establishment of Saint Augustine's Abbey, in Canterbury.
*Saint Augustine becomes Archbishop of Canterbury
*Pope Gregory I sends a delegation of monks under the Roman Augustine to Britain to convert the English.
==Births==
* Samuel the Confessor, Coptic Orthodox saint, born in Egypt (date unknown).
==Deaths==
* May 24 — Simeon Stylites the younger, Eastern Orthodox Church saint, died at Antioch. 
* June 9 — Columba, Roman Catholic Church saint, died on the island of Iona, Scotland.
* June 13 — Cettus, Roman Catholic Church saint, died in Amiternum, Italy.
Category:6th Century