The '''Synod of Whitby''' was an important local [[synod]] which led to the [[liturgics|liturgical ]] and administrative unification of the Church in England. Summoned by King Oswiu of Northumbria in 663 A.D., the synod was held in 664 at [[Whitby Abbey]], which was St. [[Hilda of Whitby|Hilda's]] double [[monastery]] of Streonshalh, at Whitby.

The Venerable [[Bede]] in his ''[[Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum|Ecclesiastical History of the English People]]'', described describes the proceedings in detail, but he did not write his account until about seventy years after the events he describes. The ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'', however, makes no mention at all of the synod.