Usually means: Church meeting deciding Easter date.
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Definitions from Wikipedia (Synod of Whitby)

noun:  a Christian administrative gathering held in Northumbria in 664, wherein King Oswiu ruled that his kingdom would calculate Easter and observe the monastic tonsure according to the customs of Rome rather than the customs practised by Irish monks at Iona and its satellite institutions.


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