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, it was revived by the Crusaders and remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
Kingdom of Jerusalem the DioceseofLydda and Rama, the titular of which was generally called Bishop of Rama, i.e. of Ramla, a town near Lydda, but more...
Ramla was left under the supervision of Robert of the dioceseof Rouen, whom the crusaders installed as Bishop ofLydda and Ramla. Thus, Ramla was initially...
as Lydda (Ancient Greek: Λύδδα), is a city 15 km (9+1⁄2 mi) southeast of Tel Aviv and 40 km (25 mi) northwest of Jerusalem in the Central District of Israel...
June 3. The crusaders seize Ramla and establish the Roman Catholic DioceseofLydda and Ramla. The first bishop, Robert, fixes the tributes payable on...
their rule, it was one of five villages to make up the dioceseofLydda. The village came to belong to the prior and canons of the Holy Sepulchre in November...
appointed during the papacy of Pope Leo X as Auxiliary Bishop of Minden, and Titular Bishop ofLydda. He served as Auxiliary Bishop of Minden until his death...
The Dioceseof Meaux (Latin: Dioecesis Meldensis; French: Diocèse de Meaux) is a Latin dioceseof the Catholic Church in France. The diocese comprises...
The Dioceseof Agen (Latin: Dioecesis Agennensis; French: Diocèse d'Agen) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or dioceseof the Catholic Church...
Pius XII appointed Shehan as titular bishop ofLydda and as the first bishop of the newly erected Dioceseof Bridgeport. His installation took place on...
The Dioceseof Laval (Latin: Dioecesis Valleguidonensis; French: Diocèse de Laval) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or dioceseof the Catholic...
included Eusebius of Nicomedia, Paulinus of Tyrus, Actius ofLydda, Menophantus of Ephesus, and Theognus of Nicaea. The main purpose of the Council was...
by Jean-Baptiste Gobel, the Bishop ofLydda in partibus, who had just been installed as Constitutional Bishop of Paris. Volfius, and all the Constitutional...
suffragans the bishops ofLydda-Ramla, Bethlehem, Hebron and Gaza, and the abbots of the Temple, Mount Sion and the Mount of Olives. The Latin Patriarch...
several toparchies; Gophna was the second of those cities, and next to that Acrabatta, after them Thamna, and Lydda, and Emmaus, and Pella, and Idumea, and...
The Dioceseof Nancy and Toul (Latin: Dioecesis Nanceiensis et Tullensis; French: Diocèse de Nancy et de Toul) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory...
appointed during the papacy of Pope Nicholas V as Auxiliary Bishop of Passau and Titular Bishop ofLydda. He served as Auxiliary Bishop of Passau until his death...
The Dioceseof Padua (Italian: Diocesi di Padova; Latin: Dioecesis Patavina) is a Latin dioceseof the Catholic Church in Veneto, northern Italy. It was...
of its army. In a series of military operations, during the war it conquered the whole of the Galilee region, both the Lydda and Ramle areas, and the...
pallium because of the opportunity to petition the new pope to restore his authority over Tripoli, Tortosa and Gibelet. Bishop Roger ofLydda accompanied...
March 1928, at the age of 22. On 4 April 1944 he was appointed apostolic administrator of Belluno e Feltre and Titular Bishop ofLydda by Pope Pius XII. Bortignon...
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