Diocese of Lydda (Lod) is one of the oldest bishoprics of the early Christian Church in the Holy Land. Suppressed under Persian and Arab-Islamic rule...
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Ramla was left under the supervision of Robert of the diocese of Rouen, whom the crusaders installed as Bishop of Lydda and Ramla. Thus, Ramla was initially...
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Ramatha (category Christianity in the Kingdom of Jerusalem)
Kingdom of Jerusalem the Diocese of Lydda and Rama, the titular of which was generally called Bishop of Rama, i.e. of Ramla, a town near Lydda, but more...
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crusader leaders appointed Robert as the first bishop of the new diocese. They also granted Ramla, Lydda and the nearby villages to the bishopric. Being the...
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describes as "a man of real ability". Lydda was a suffragan diocese of Jerusalem. At the urging of the new patriarch, Arnulf of Chocques, Roger granted...
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Hebron, Diocese of Hippos, Diocese of Iamnia, Diocese of Ioppe, Diocese of Livias, Diocese of Lydda, Diocese of Massimianopolis in Palæstina, Diocese of Porphyreon...
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June 3. The crusaders seize Ramla and establish the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lydda and Ramla. The first bishop, Robert, fixes the tributes payable on...
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over to the emperor along with a corridor of territory, including the diocese of Lydda, connecting it to the kingdom's coastal possessions and Acre. In the...
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Barfiliya (category District of Ramla)
their rule, it was one of five villages to make up the diocese of Lydda. The village came to belong to the prior and canons of the Holy Sepulchre in November...
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