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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Augustine of Canterbury |
 | | With regard to the delicate question of jurisdiction Augustine is informed that he is to exercise no authority over the churches of Gaul; but that "all the bishops of Britain are entrusted to him, to the end that the unlearned may be instructed, the wavering strengthened by persuasion and the perverse corrected with authority". |
 | | [Greg., Epp., XI (indic., iv), 64; Bede, H. E., I, xxvii.] Augustine seized the first convenient opportunity to carry out the graver provisions of this last enactment. |
 | | He had already received the pallium on the return of Peter and Lawrence from Rome in 601. |
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