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SAXON PERIOD.
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siastical discipline gradually unfolds itself year after
year until Head and Members are joined together by
the close ties we see now existing in the Church
between the Pope and the Christian people.
The plan of Pope St. Gregory the Great was to
establish a northern " and a southern metropolitan,
each with twelve suffragans. He conferred great
powers on St. Augustine, and in his person on the
Archbishop of Canterbury. The successors of St.
Gregory the Great invariably confirmed the successors
of St. Augustine and every metropolitan.
As now, they controlled a nomination which was
submitted to them for approval, and expressed it by
conferring the pallium. The first five archbishops
were Italian monks. On the death of the sixth,
Archbishop Deusdedit, King Oswy of Nortlmmbria,
and King Egbert of Kent, took counsel together as
to the state of the Church (667). Their deliberations
resulted in their sending the priest Vighard to Eome
that he might receive episcopal consecration, and
confer it in his turn throughout England. Vighard
reached Koine, but died before he could be consecrated.
Pope
"Vitalian, finally, sent a learned Greek
monk, Theodore, in Vighard's place, giving him full
jurisdiction over all the Church of the Angles.1
Until the revival of the metropolitan See of York in
735 under Egbert, the Archbishop of Canterbury was
therefore the great connecting link between the Holy
See and the Saxon hierarchy. " No establishment
1 Hintoria Ecclcsice, lib. iii. cap. xxix.