Synod of Whitby

noun

1. the synod held in 664 at Whitby at which the Roman date for Easter was accepted and the Church in England became aligned with Rome

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Two centuries later, in 664, England voted at the Synod of Whitby to rejoin what was emphatically a European union, that of the Roman Catholic church, albeit with many a squabble under the likes of Henry II and King John.

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"The Synod of Whitby made sure that the English Church observed the mainstream continental practice. It meant that the English Church was unified in its observation of the most important festival of the Christian calendar, the day of Christ's resurrection, and that England was tied to the continent. And it was something that persisted in England, a thread of continuity, until the English Reformation, when England was broken off from the religious and cultural mainstream of Europe."

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Hexham marks a turning point in this tradition through its associations with St Wilfrid, who preferred the grandeur of Roman liturgy, garb and menus to what he called the 'Irish errors', and unfortunately won the day against Celtic simplicity at the Synod of Whitby in 664AD.

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At the synod of Whitby in 664 Hilda sided with Colman and Cedd against Wilfrid.

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They were forced to retire in 661, but after the Synod of Whitby they conformed to the Catholic rules.463.Cf. c.

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