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(672 or 673).

A Council of bishops held under Theodore, Abp. of Canterbury, to promote the reorganization of the English Church. It issued ten canons, concerned especially with the rights and duties of clerics and monks. This was the first occasion on which the English Church acted as a unity.

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Hertford, Council of (672)
in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (2 rev) Length: 53 words
Hertford, Council of (672)
in The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3 rev) Length: 216 words
Hertford, Council of (672/3)
in The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages Length: 63 words
Hertford, Synod of (672)
in A Dictionary of British History (1 rev) Length: 60 words

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