Paulinus (died 644)

Roman missionary to Britain who joined St Augustine in Kent in 601. He was made a bishop in 625 and went to Northumbria where he succeeded in converting King Edwin and his court in 627. He became the first archbishop of York in 633 but following Edwin's death later in the year fled back to Kent where he was made bishop of Rochester. Excavations in 1978 revealed a church he built in Lincoln.