Augustine returned to Gaul, where he was consecrated as Archbishop of the English nation, at Arles.

Kent became thenceforth a part of the great Continental system.

Canterbury has ever since remained the metropolis of the English Church; and the modern archbishops trace back their succession directly to St.Augustine.
For awhile, the young Church seemed to make vigorous progress.

Augustine built a monastery at Canterbury, where AEthelberht founded a new church to SS.

Peter and Paul, to be a sort of Westminster Abbey for the tombs of all future Kentish kings and archbishops.