BishopBishop Bishops exercised pastoral care over a diocese and authority to confirm and ordain of YorkYork 1. A Roman city and early centre of Christianity. 2. Diocese and province under the leadership of the Archbishop of York. 627-644. Sent to England with SaintSaint In the New Testament applied to all Christians. Later used of those who were martyred or showed exceptional holiness and whose status was confirmed by the church. The practice of venerating the saints and their relics and asking for their intercessions (prayers) can be observed from the second and third centuries onward and played a central role in popular medieval religion. Augustine. Accompanied Queen Ethelburga north on her marriage to King Edwin of NorthumbriaEdwin of Northumbria (c.583-633) King of Northumbria. His marriage to Ethelburga, a Christian princess of the Kingdom of Kent in 625, who brought her chaplain Paulinus with her, was followed in 627 by his baptism in York in a specially-constructed baptistery. He appointed Paulinus Bishop of York, and made his kingdom officially Christian. His defeat and death at Heathenfield on 12 October 633 at the hands of the pagan kings Penda and Cadwallon led to his kingdom being broken up. His feast day is 12 October.. Converted King Edwin and the Northumbrians in 627 and founded the first York MinsterYork Minster Popular name for the cathedral and metropolitan church of St Peter in York. Seat of the Archbishop of York, the cathedral was established in 627 by St Paulinus as a baptistery for King Edwin. The present building contains elements of the Norman cathedral of Archbishop Thomas of Bayeux, but dates largely from the 13th-15th centuries..