The first synod of Rouen is generally believed to have been held by Archbishop Saint-Ouen about 650. Sixteen of its decrees, one against

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, the others on liturgical and canonical matters, are still extant. Jean-François Pommeraye and a few others place this synod in the second half of the ninth century. Later synods were presided over by: * Archbishop St. Ansbert some time between 689-693 * Archbishop Mauger in 1048 *the papal legate Hermanfrid of Sitten at

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in 1055, at which Archbishop Mauger of Rouen was deposed for his loose morals *Archbishop

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in 1055, which drew up a creed against

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to be subscribed to by all newly elected bishops * Archbishop John of Bayeux, one in 1072 and two in 1074, urging ecclesiastical reforms * Archbishop William in 1096, at which the decrees of the

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(1095) were proclaimed * Archbishop Goisfred in 1118, at which the papal legate Conrad asked the assembled prelates and princes to support

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against

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and his antipope,

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(Gregory VIII) *the same Archbishop in 1119, and the cardinal legate

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, in 1128, to enforce

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* Archbishop Gualterus in 1190, and the papal legate

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, in 1214 to urge clerical reform. Other synods were held in 1223, 1231, 1278, 1313, 1321, 1335, 1342, 1445, and 1581. The synod held by Archbishop

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in 1699 condemned Fénelon's ''Maximes des Saints''. The last provincial synod was held by Archbishop Louis-Marie-Edmont Blanquart de Bailleul in 1830; for its Acts see ''Collectio Lacensis'', IV, 513-36.

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