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  Archbishop of Tyre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Archbishop of Tyre was one of the major suffragans of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem during the Crusades and was established to serve the Catholic members of the diocese.
When Tyre was conqured it was made part of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, rather than the separate Principality of Antioch further to the north, and it was claimed by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, against the claim of the Latin Patriarch of Antioch.
Between the recapture of Tyre by the Crusaders and the late 13th century, the city experienced a resurgence in economic wealth and numbers of the Christian community.
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 William of Tyre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1130 - 1185) was archbishop of Tyre and an historian of the Crusades and the Middle Ages.
William was born in Jerusalem around 1130, one of the second generation of children born to the children of the original European Crusaders in the new Kingdom of Jerusalem.
William remained archbishop of Tyre and chancellor of the kingdom, and the King and Raymond were reconciled.
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 Tyre
Tyre refused submission to the Macedonian hero, as well as authorization to sacrifice to the god Melkart, whose temple was on the island; Alexander, taking offence, determined to capture the island at any cost.
Tyre was captured in 332; 6000 of its defenders were beheaded, 2000 crucified, more than 30,000 women, children, and servants sold as slaves.
The Melchite Archdiocese of Tyre is bounded on the north by Nahr el-Laitani, on the east by a line of wooded hills separating the District of Beharre from that of Merdjaioun, on the south by the Diocese of St.-Jean d'Acre, and on the west by the sea.
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 Sour (Tyre)
Tyre is really one of the most magnificent sights in the world and one of the greatest sculptured works of art that must be admired.
Tyre was considered to be very powerful and wealthy due to its flourishing maritime trading, its purple dye and glass industries, but that attracted the enemies who occupied it.
During the Byzantine era, the Archbishop of Tyre was the Primate of 311 the bishops of Phoenicia.
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 Wikinfo | Tyre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Tyre (Arabic الصور aṣ-Ṣūr, native Phoenician Ṣur, Latin Tyrus, Akkadian Ṣurru, Tiberian Hebrew צר Ṣōr, Greek Τύρος Týros) is an ancient Phoenician city in Lebanon on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, about 23 miles, in a direct line, north of Acre, and 20 south of Sidon.
The city was the site of the archbishop of Tyre, a suffragan of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem; its archbishops often acceded to the Patriarchate.
In the 13th century, Tyre was separated from the royal domain as a separate crusader lordship.
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 TYRE
Phoenician Tyre was queen of the seas, an island city of unprecedented splendor.
Tyre stood firm, but it is probable that at this time the residents of the mainland city abandoned it for the safety of the island.
During the Byzantine era, the Archbishop of Tyre was the primate of all the bishops of Phoenicia.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: William of Tyre
Archbishop of Tyre and historian, born probably in Palestine, of a European family which had emigrated thither, about 1127-30; died in 1190, the exact date being unknown.
He became Archdeacon of Tyre, fulfilled an important diplomatic mission to Manuel Comnenus (relating to the alliance between the Byzantine Empire and the Kingdom of Jerusalem against Egypt), and was tutor to Amaury's son, the unfortunate Baldwin, who was stricken with leprosy.
Threatened by Saladin and rent by internal disorders, the very life of the kingdom was menaced and William was sent to Europe to arrange for a new crusade (1178); he assisted at the Council of the Lateran (1179), held by Alexander III returned by was of Constantinople, and landed in Palestine, 12 May, 1180.
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Tyre was queen of the seas, an island city of unprecedented splendor.
City and District of Tyre, Governorate of South Lebanon N33 16 19 E35 11 40 ref: 299...
According to legend, purple dye was invented in Tyre.
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William Tyre, a sergeant in Morgan's Rifles was wounded in the American assault on Quebec, Canada in the early part of the war and died in an Army hospital in Albany, N.Y. A Tyree was a Lieutenant in George Washington's army.
Evans Tyree, born in Dekalb County, Tennessee in 1854, was a bishop in the American Methodist Episcopalian Church in Nashville, Tennessee.
Lewis Tyree, Born in Salem, Virginia in 1892, was a professor of law at Washington and Lee University and Rutgers University.
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 William of Tyre Biography / Biography of William of Tyre Biography
1184) was archbishop of Tyre, chancellor of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, and historian of the last years of the kingdom before its fall to Saladin in 1187.
He became a protégé of the archbishop of Tyre, and was sent sometime before 1163 to Europe, probably to study law.
Between 1163 and 1167 William was a canon in the cathedral church of Tyre.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Tyre
Nevertheless, the two kings were allies and their combined fleets left the ports of the Red Sea for Ophir and Tharsis to obtain gold (1 Kings 9:26-28; 10:11 sq.
Although paying him a light tribute, Tyre remained a powerful state with its own kings (Jeremiah 25:22; Ezekiel 27 and 28), and was enabled to develop its mercantile proclivities and attain the great prosperity spoken of by the prophets and all ancient writers.
This is perhaps why Jesus went to the neighbourhood of Tyre to cure the sick and convert sinners (Matthew 15:21-29; Mark 7:24-31).
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 Tyre Festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Tyre and the whole of ancient Syria fell under Roman rule in 64 B.C..
This was a time when Tyre was adorned with fountains and its bazaars were full of all kinds of merchandise, including carpets and jewerly of gold and silver.
For a period of nearly 50 years the General Directorate of Antiquities excavated in and around Tyre, concentrating on the three major Roman archaeological sites in the town, which can be seen today.
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 Tourism in Lebanon
This was a time when Tyre was adorned with fountains and its bazaars were full of all kinds of merchandise, including carpets and jewelry of gold and silver.
But it was Tyre's purple-dyed textiles, worn throughout the ancient world as a mark of royal rank, that brought fame and fortune to the city.
The ancient Tyrians extracted the dye from the Murex, a marine snail that still lives along Tyre's shores deep among the rocks and sunken archaeological remains.
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 Archaeological Promenade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
With the decline of the Abbasid caliphate, Tyre acquired some independence under the dynasty of the Banu ‘Aqil, vassals of the Egyptian Fatimids, and its bazaars were full of all kinds of merchandise, including carpets and jewelry of gold and silver.
For a period of nearly 50 years, the General Directorate of Antiquities excavated in and around Tyre, concentrating on the two major archaeological sites in the town, which can be seen today.
In the meantime, government efforts have stopped much of the wartime pillaging that Tyre's archaeological treasures suffered due to economic stress in the area and international demand for antiquities.
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 The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographies - S   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Elected titular archbishop of Giustiniana prima and appointed prelate of Loreto and pontifical delegate of its shrine, June 24, 1965.
Elected archbishop of Tyre of the Melkites and consecrated, August 30, 1919, Damascus, by Joseph Dimitri Cadi, patriarch of Antioch of the Melkites.
Elected titular archbishop of Grado and appointed secretary of the Congregation for the Clergy, April 2, 1992.
www.stjohnxxiii.com /Cardinals/The_Cardinals_of_the_Church/bios-s.htm   (13779 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - William of Tyre (Historians, European, Biography) - Encyclopedia
In 1167 he was appointed archdeacon of Tyre, an important Christian city in the Middle East.
He was employed on various embassies by the king, Amalric I, and became (c.1170) tutor of Amalric's son and heir (later Baldwin IV).
After Amalric's death he became (1174) chancellor of the kingdom, and in 1175 he was made archbishop of Tyre.
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 Places in Lebanon - Sour/Tyre
But it was not until the first millennium BC that the city experienced its golden age.
Tyre and the whole of ancient Syria fell under Roman rule in 64 BC None the less, for some time Tyre continued to mint its own silver coins.
With the end of World War 1 Tyre was integrated into the new nation of Lebanon.
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 Corpus Inscriptionum Crucesignatorum Terrae Sanctae
William of Tyre was born in Jerusalem around 1127.
Upon the death of Rudolph, Bishop of Bethlehem and royal chancellor (1155-1174), King Amalric invited the archdeacon of Tyre to fill the vacant position.
During the month of May of the same year he was unanimously elected Archbishop of Tyre and, after spending ten days of instruction with the Patriarch of Jerusalem, he was consecrated bishop in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.
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 Medieval Sourcebook: William of Tyre: Deeds Done Beyond the Sea
William of Tyre was born in the Holy Land, born in the Holy Land and was, after a French education, appointed Archbishop of Tyre and Chancellor of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
In their ninth year there was held in France, at Troyes, a council at which the Lord Archbishops of Reims and Sens and their suffragans were present, as well as the Bishop of Albano, who was the legate of the apostolic see, and the Abbots of Citeaux, Clairvaux, Pontigny, with many others.
The sixth of the Latin kings of Jerusalem was the lord Baldwin IV, son of the lord King Amalric of illustrious memory and of the Countess Agnes, daughter of the younger Count Jocelin of Edessa.
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 ASSEN - LoveToKnow Article on ASSEN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The success of jo is expedition induced the pope to send him again to the East 1735, and he,retur~ied with a still more valuable collection.
cc i his return he was made titular archbishop of Tyre and sh rarian of the Vatican library.
He was titular archbishop of tc amea in Syria, and held several rich prebends in Italy.
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 Third Crusade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The news was brought by Genoese merchants to Rome in October, followed closely by the Archbishop of Tyre, come to plead for aid.
King William II of Sicily was one of the first monarchs to hear the news and he immediately sent a fleet to the Holy Land.
The archbishop went north, to gain the help of the English and French, who were at war at the time, but were in the midst of negotiating a truce (January 1188).
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 ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
His appeal was to the lay rulers of Europe, and he had Archbishop Joscius of Tyre go directly to France to appeal to the kings.
He returned to Tyre with Conrad on July 31st, and sailed for France on August 2nd, though he did leave a large portion of his army behind.
Conrad was at Tyre when the news was brought to him and there was general celebration, for Guy was still widely blamed for the disaster at Hattin.
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 Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Prior to the crusades the archbishop of had traditionally been under the control of patriarch of Antioch but Tyre was part of the of Jerusalem rather than the Principality of so it was claimed by the patriarch Jerusalem.
The most notable archbishop of Tyre the historian William of Tyre who served from 1175-1186.
As above the Patriarch of Jerusalem might have served as archbishop of Caesarea - is the case with Patriarch Heraclius (1180-1191).
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 William of Tyre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Born in the Holy Land, studied in Europe and returned home to be appointed archdeacon of Tyre in 1167.
Wrote his highly regarded history between 1169 and 1173, and became archbishop of Tyre in 1175.
Medieval Sourcebook- William of Tyre- Fiasco at Damascus 1148
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 Obedience of Malta - News 08.07.2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
He was consecrated Archbishop of St. John of Acre, Haifa, Nazareth and all Galilee, in Cairo on 13 June 1943, by H.B. Cyril IX Moghabghab, assisted by the Archbishops Dionysios Kfoury and Peter Kamel Medawar, patriarchal auxiliaries.
Finally, he was elected Patriarch by the Holy Synod at Ain Traz on 22 November 1967- Because of age and health he resigned 22 November 2000 from all his offices.
Later as Archbishop he built schools, a junior seminary, an orphanage, a home for the elderly and several churches He took particular care for the clergy and for the religious and secular orders and he brought in several groups of Europeans come to integrate themselves into the Greek-melkite Church.
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 Tyre
Tomb of Hiram: On the road to Qana El-Jaleel, (6 Kilometers southeast of Tyre) is a burial monument from the Persian period (550 - 330 B.C.).
But it was Tyre's purple-dyed textiles, worn throughout the ancient world as a
along Tyre's shores deep among the rocks and sunken archeological remains.
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 WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190) - Online Information article about WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
Tyre and chronicler, belonged to a See also:
Rome from the " unmerited anger " of his archbishop.
Equally untrustworthy is the theory which identifies William with the archbishop of Tyre sent to Europe to preach a new crusade in 1188.
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 THEODOSIUS VI ABOURGELY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
At that time, he stayed close to the Patriarch; he was known as the "Translator".
In 1923 he was elected Metropolitan Archbishop of
He held that rank for 25 years, then, in 1948, he was appointed to the Archdiocese of Tripoli by the Holy Synod of the
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 Medieval Sourcebook: William of Tyre: Outremer, 1150-1185
The lord King and also the lord Patriarch, our predecessor the lord Peter, Archbishop of Tyre, and the other magnates of the realm, both princes and ecclesiastical prelates, together with citizens from each of the towns pitched their tents separately and besieged Ascalon by land.
The whole territory of Egypt, from its furthermost frontiers, which are said to border on Ethiopia, lies between two sandy deserts which are doomed to perpetual sterility.
While Baldwin was still a boy, about nine years old, and while I was still Archdeacon of Tyre, King Amalric put him in my care, after asking me many times and with a promise of his favor, to teach him and to instruct him in-the liberal arts.
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