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.