Mellitus attended a council of bishops held in Italy in February 610, convened by Pope Boniface IV.[4] The historian N. J. Higham speculates that one reason for his attendance may have been to assert the English Church's independence from the Frankish Church.[23] Boniface had Mellitus take two papal letters back to England, one to Æthelbert and his people, and another to Laurence, the Archbishop of Canterbury.[24] He also brought back the synod's decrees to England.[25] No authentic letters or documents from this synod remain, although some were forged in the 1060s and 1070s at Canterbury.[4] During his time as a bishop, Mellitus joined with Justus, the Bishop of Rochester, in signing a letter that Laurence wrote to the Celtic bishops urging the Celtic Church to adopt the Roman method of calculating the date of Easter.[26]
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