Synod of Whitby
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What was the importance of the Synod of Whitby?
From Early European History by Hutton Webster
Protestant writers have tried to interpret St. Colman's conduct regarding the Synod of Whitby as a manifest opposition to Roman authority.
From A Calendar of Scottish Saints by Michael Barrett
They were forced to retire in 661, but after the Synod of Whitby they conformed to the Catholic rules.463.Cf. c.
From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Cuthbert Bede
The Norsemen had not yet struck prow on Irish strand, and the period between the Synod of Whitby and their appearance seems to have been really one of steady moral and intellectual growth.
From The Story of Ireland by Emily Lawless
The Synod of Whitby is the turning-point in the history of the schism.
From The English Church in the Middle Ages by William Hunt
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