council · 673 · Hertford
Theodore of Tarsus, the Greek archbishop of Canterbury, gathered bishops of the English kingdoms at Hertford and passed ten canons: diocesan boundaries, episcopal precedence, annual councils. The English church — Roman, Ionan and Frankish missions alike — began acting as one body.
The Council of Hertford was the first general council of the Anglo-Saxon Church. It was convened in Anglo-Saxon Herutford, most likely modern Hertford, in 672 by Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury. The Venerable Bede is the historical source for this council, as he included its text in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
The first council of all the English — one church out of many missions.