Church Councils

A register of the church councils and synods of Anglo-Saxon England from the meeting at Augustine’s Oak to the middle of the ninth century, arranged by archbishop, with the charters and narrative sources that record them.

0councils and synods
602–845span
0named meeting-places
0of uncertain authority

Revised version of Simon Keynes, ‘Anglo-Saxon Church Councils’, Handbook of British Chronology, 3rd ed. (1986), pp. 583–9, with references to The Councils of Clofesho (1994, “CClof.”) and Catherine Cubitt, Anglo-Saxon Church Councils c. 650–c. 850 (1995, “ASCC”). An asterisk in the original marks evidence of uncertain or dubious authority; those entries are dashed here. Sawyer numbers open the Electronic Sawyer.

Where they met: Chelsea 11 · Clofesho 9 · Aclea 7 · London 4 · Pincanheale 3 · Bapchild 2 · Hertford 1 · Hatfield 1

Transferred from the earlier Kemble website (Trinity College, Cambridge, 2000–2), where it was marked provisional and under construction; reformatted here, with the wording unchanged.