Bishop of Lydda
The Bishopric at Lydda is one of the oldest and most significant Bishoprics in the early Christian Church. Founded in the 1st century, there has been a Bishop of Lydda continuously since.
In early Christian times Lydda (today Lod) was a prosperous Jewish town, located on the intersection of the North - South and the Egypt to Babylon roads, it was made wealthy on the trade that passed through it. It was a natural point to establish a church, which was already established when Saint Peter visited the city between 31–36AD.[1] The founding date of the Bishopric is unknown but by 120AD most of its inhabitants were Christian. The earliest known bishop is Aëtius, a friend of Arius. St George, Patron Saint of England was born in the town.
In December 415, the Council of Diospolis was held in the Bishopric to try Pelagius; he was acquitted.
List of known Bishops
- Zenas the Lawyer(according to tradition)
- Aëtius[2] [3] (First bishop) (Arian)
- Photinus[4] fl. 451
- Robert of Rouen c 1099[5][6]
- Bishop Roger fl. 1110 (Catholic)
- Bernard of Lydda (1168 - 1190)[7][8]
- Unknown Bishop of Lydda who spoke to Richard I in 1192.
- Isias (Orthodox Bishop) fl.1202.
- Ralph of Lydda[9] fl. 1244
- John Bishop of Lydda (before 1267-after 1271)
- Benedikt Sibenhirter, (20 Nov 1452 – 10 May1458)[10]
- Thomas Lydensis fl 1495
- Nicolaus de Braciano, (29 Apr 1504 Appointed - 1509)
- Hermanus Nigenbroch, (7 Nov 1509 Appointed - 1511)
- Petrus Antonii (18 Jul 1511 Appointed - 1515)
- Heinrich von Hattingen,(10 Dec1515 Appointed -1519)
- Giovanni Brainfort, (26 Feb 1517 Appointed -1521)
- Thomas Bele (7 Jun 1521 Appointed - 1524)
- Pompeo Musacchi (11 May 1524 Appointed - )
- Marcus Teggingeri (10 Dec1568 Appointed - )
- Georges Scultetus (3 Mar1603 Appointed -1613)
- Franz Weinhart (26 Feb1663 Appointed - 22 Jun 1686)
- Francisco Varo, (5 Feb 1687 Appointed - Did Not Take Effect)
- Giovanni Battista Bruni, (5 Aug 1765 Appointed - 21 Sep1771)
- Johann Baptist Joseph Gobel (27 Jan1772 Appointed - 7 Nov1793 Resigned)
- Anselmo Basilici (19 Dec1814 Appointed - 25 May 1818)
- Francesco Pichi (25 May1818 Appointed - 21 May 1827)
- Robert Gradwell (17 Jun1828 Appointed - 15 Mar 1833)
- Henri Monnier (23 Feb1872 Appointed - 28 Nov1916)
- Bernard Nicholas Ward [11] (22 Mar1917 Appointed - 20 Jul1917)
- Patrice Alexandre Chiasson, (27 Jul1917 Appointed - 9 Sep 1920)
- Michele Cerrati (15 Sep1920 Appointed - 21 Feb1925 )
- John James Joseph Monaghan (10 Jul1925 Appointed - 7 Jan1935)
- William Richard Griffin (9 Mar1935 Appointed - 18 Mar1944)
- Girolamo Bartolomeo Bortignon, (4 Apr1944 Appointed - 9 Sep 1945)
- Lawrence Joseph Shehan (17 Nov 1945 Appointed - 25 Aug1953)
- Frédéric Duc (11 Jan 1954 Appointed - 10 Dec 1970)
- Marcelino Sérgio Bicego (6 Aug 1971 Appointed - 26 May 1978)
- Jean-Baptiste Gourion, (14 Aug2003 Appointed - 23 Jun2005)
- William Hanna Shomali (31 Mar 2010 Appointed)[12]
References
- ↑ Book of Acts, 9:32-35.
- ↑ Michel Le Quien, Oriens christianus,page 872.
- ↑ Patrum Nicaenorum nomina p13.
- ↑ Richard Price, Michael Gaddis, The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon, Volume 1 (Liverpool University Press, 2005) p360.
- ↑ Dr Marwan Nader, Burgesses and Burgess Law in the Latin Kingdoms of Jerusalem and Cyprus (1099–1325), p132
- ↑ Denys Pringle, The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: A Corpus: Volume 2, L-Z (excluding Tyre) (Cambridge University Press, 1993) p11.
- ↑ Malcolm Barber, The Crusader States (Yale University Press, 2012)
- ↑ Malcolm Barber, The Crusader States (Yale University Press, 2012)
- ↑ Kenneth Meyer Setton, Robert Lee Wolff, Harry W. Hazard, A History of the Crusades, Volume 2 (Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1969) p 536
- ↑ http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t1021.htm
- ↑ The bishop of Lydda Consecration at Westminster cathedral.The Tablet Page 14
- ↑ David M. Cheney, 1996-2016 Catholic hierarchy