In article , Matthew
Malthouse writes
} Kent has been around a *long* time. The reason we have an Archbishop of
} Canterbury rather than one of London (the obvious centre for a province)
} is because Kent was at war with everyone else.

The reason was that Kent had a Christian queen, Bertha, who brownbeat
her hubby Ethelbert into giving Augustine a chuch.
[...]

I don't dispute it. But I thought there was also an issue with Kent
being at war with the surrounding pagan territories.

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