page_title: Diocese of Lydda
section_title: Titular Latin bishopric
hierarchical_section_title: Diocese of Lydda / Titular Latin bishopric
caption_attribution_description: bishop William Hanna Shomali
context_page_description: Diocese of Lydda 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.
context_section_description: As the Crusader kingdom fell to Saladin, Lydda was truly in partibus infidelium. From the 15th century, it was a Latin titular bishopric both under the names Lydda and Diospolis in Palaestina, with a messy proliferation of titular incumbents the next century with up to eleven titular bishops 'on' the see of Lydda.
  Titular Bishops of Lydda/ Diospolis
  Benedikt Sibenhirter, (20 Nov 1452 – 10 May 1458)
  Thomas Lydensis (fl. 1495)
  Nicolaus de Braciano, (29 April 1504 – 1509)
  Hermanus Nigenbroch, (7 Nov 1509 – 1511)
  Petrus Antonii (18 July 1511 – 1515)
  Heinrich von Hattingen (10 Dec 1515 - 1519)
  Giovanni Brainfort (26 Feb 1517 - 1521)
  Thomas Bele (7 June 1521 – 1524)
  Pompeo Musacchi (11 May 1524  – )
  Marcus Teggingeri (10 Dec 1568 – )
  Georges Scultetus (3 March 1603 -1613)
  Franz Weinhart  (26 Feb 1663 – 22 June 1686)
  Francisco Varo (5 Feb 1687 – did not take effect)
  Giovanni Battista Bruni, (5 August 1765 – 21 Sep 1771)
  Johann Baptist Joseph Gobel (27 Jan 1772 – 7 Nov 1793, resigned)
  Anselmo Basilici (19 Dec 1814 – 25 May 1818)
  Francesco Pichi (25 May 1818 – 21 May 1827)
  Robert Gradwell (17 June 1828 – 15 March 1833)
  Henri Monnier (23 Feb 1872 – 28 Nov 1916)
  Bernard Nicholas Ward  (22 March 1917 – 20 July 1917)
  Patrice Alexandre Chiasson (27 Jul 1917 – 9 Sep 1920)
  Michele Cerrati (15 Sep 1920 – 21 Feb 1925)
  John James Joseph Monaghan (10 July 1925 – 7 Jan 1935)
  William Richard Griffin (9 March 1935 – 18 March 1944)
  Girolamo Bartolomeo Bortignon (4 April 1944 – 9 Sep 1945)
  Lawrence Joseph Shehan (17 Nov 1945 – 25 August 1953)
  Frédéric Duc (11 Jan 1954 – 10 Dec 1970)
  Marcelino Sérgio Bicego (6 August 1971 – 26 May 1978)
  Jean-Baptiste Gourion, (14 August 2003 – 23 June 2005)
  William Hanna Shomali (31 March 2010 - ...)
caption: Bp William Shomali
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