“ Bede also declares that he was the first archbishop to whom all the " church of the Angles " submitted. From the first he seems to have ignored the scheme for a separate province of York, but he reorganized the episco- pate, assigning Bisi to East Anglia, Putta to Rochester, Hloth- here to Wessex, and Ceadda after reconsecration to Mercia. He brought the monastic education up to date by introducing literary, metrical and musical studies. In 673 Theodore pre- sided at the first synod of the clergy in England which was held at Hertford. ”