Parish church in Canterbury, out of town centre. A parish church is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches. ... Canterbury is a cathedral city in the City of Canterbury district of Kent in South East England. ...

Contains reused Roman brick and claims to be the oldest parish church in continued use in Britain and the private chapel of Berthe, where she was ministered to by Augustine. Berthe, Princess of Paris, also Bertha, Queen of Kent, (539-c. ... Augustine of Canterbury (birth unknown, died May 26, 604) was the first Archbishop of Canterbury, sent to Ethelbert of Kent, Bretwalda of England by Pope Gregory the Great in 597. ...