# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mellitus
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:54:34.041Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mellitus"
name: "Mellitus"
slug: "mellitus"
description: "Mellitus was the first bishop of London in the Saxon period, the third archbishop of Canterbury, and a member of the Gregorian mission sent to England to convert the Anglo-Saxons from their native paganism to Christianity. He arrived in 601 AD with a group of clergy sent to augment the mission, and was consecrated as Bishop of London in 604. Mellitus was the recipient of a famous letter from Pope Gregory I known as the Epistola ad Mellitum, preserved in a later work by the medieval chronicler Bede, which suggested the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons be undertaken gradually, integrating pagan rituals and customs. In 610, Mellitus returned to Italy to attend a council of bishops and returned to England bearing papal letters to some of the missionaries."
tagline: "Archbishop of Canterbury; Bishop of London"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/St.Mellitus.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "600"
deathDate: "0624-04-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.64
  momentum:             0
  historical:           18.446008
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "梅利多"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ميليتوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melit%C3%B3_de_Canterbury"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mellitus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mellitus"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellitus"
    title: "Mellitus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellitus"
    title: "Mellitus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melito_de_Canterbury"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellitus"
    title: "Mellitus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellitus"
    title: "Mellitus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melito_de_Canterbury"
    title: "Melito de Canterbury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellitusz"
    title: "Mellitusz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melitus"
    title: "Melitus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellito_di_Canterbury"
    title: "Mellito di Canterbury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A9%9C%EB%A6%AC%ED%88%AC%EC%8A%A4"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mellitus"
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    title: "Mellitus van Canterbury"
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  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellitus_av_Canterbury"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellit_z_Canterbury"
    title: "Mellit z Canterbury"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melito_de_Cantu%C3%A1ria"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%82_(%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BF)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump