February 17, 2025

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  1. St. Patrick founded the Celtic Christain church which ultimately was suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church under the pope in Rome.

    St. Patrick’s church had no pope.

    A difference between the two related to the date Easter was celebrated.

    At the Synod of Whitby, which was a Christian administrative gathering held in Northumbria in 664, King Oswiu ruled that his kingdom would calculate Easter and observe the monastic tonsure according to the customs of Rome rather than the customs practiced by Irish monks at Iona and its satellite institutions.

    The synod was summoned at Hilda’s double monastery of Streonshalh (Streanæshalch), later called Whitby Abbey.

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