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    The Breton and French Catholic diocese of Dol, situated in the northern part of the department of Ille-et-Vilaine, 6 km (3.8 mi) from the English Channel...
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    part of the ancient Diocese of Dol; the greater part of the ancient Diocese of St. Malo; ten parishes that had formed part of the ancient Diocese of Vannes...
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  • Archbishop of Dol - The Ancient Diocese of Dol reached the peak of its ecclesiastical powers around the 10th century, but lost the privileges of an archdiocese...
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  • Alan fitz Flaad (category Year of birth uncertain)
    son (or possibly a brother) of Alain, dapifer to the Ancient Diocese of Dol, with its see at Dol-de-Bretagne, who had taken part in the First Crusade...
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    of Dol (or Thivisiau, Tuien, Turiav, Turiave, Turiavus, Turien, Turiano, Turiavo; died c. 750) was a Breton abbot and bishop of the ancient Diocese of...
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    Saint-Thurien, Finistère (category Communes of Finistère)
    department of Brittany in north-western France. It takes its name from Saint Turiaf of Dol, bishop of the ancient Diocese of Dol. Inhabitants of Saint-Thurien...
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    FitzAlan (category Surnames of Breton origin)
    son (or possibly a brother) of Alain, dapifer to the Ancient Diocese of Dol, with its see at Dol-de-Bretagne, who had taken part in the First Crusade...
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    Saint-Thurien, Eure (category Former communes of Eure)
    Le Perrey. It took its name from Saint Turiaf of Dol, bishop of the ancient Diocese of Dol. Communes of the Eure department Téléchargement du fichier...
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  • local bishop of the Ancient Diocese of Dol--in which the abbey was located--to have his diocese promoted to an archdiocese, claiming ancient privilege....
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    Saint-Thuriau (category Communes of Morbihan)
    It takes its name from Saint Turiaf of Dol, bishop of the ancient Diocese of Dol. Calstock, Cornwall, UK Communes of the Morbihan department "Maires du...
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  • time, Jersey would have been part of the ancient diocese of Dol. As with many of the early saints of this part of the world, it is difficult to separate...
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    former French diocese of Saintes existed from the 6th century to the French Revolution. Its bishops had their see in the cathedral of Saintes in western...
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    prefatory epistle for the Historia Hierosolymitana of Archbishop Baldric of Dol. One must also mention the Chronicon Malleacense. On 13 May 1197, by a solemn...
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    Ireland. Dol, Treguier, and Alet were considered monastery-bishoprics until the 11th century. Already by the mid-6th century the metropolitan bishop of Tours...
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    Črna). Roman-era graves have been found in Dol pri Hrastniku, testifying to ancient settlement in the area. Part of a Roman sacrificial altar was discovered...
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    portion of the Diocese of Tréguier; (3) a part of the old Dioceses of St. Malo, Dol, and Quimper and Léon, and (4) the parishes of the Diocese of Vannes. In...
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    Illtud (category Family of King Arthur)
    centre of learning. At its height, it had over a thousand pupils and schooled many of the great saints of the age, such as David, Samson of Dol, and the...
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    Concordat of 1801, the diocese of Saint-Omer was united with the diocese of Arras and the diocese of Boulogne, to form an enlarged diocese of Arras. Guillaume...
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    Samson, one of the founding saints of Brittany. It was formerly the seat of the Archbishop of Dol, one of the nine ancient bishoprics of Brittany. The...
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    southern end of the Cotentin Peninsula on the E40 road connecting Saint-Lô with Brittany and on the rail line between Lison (linking to Caen) and Dol (linking...
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    Department of Finistère. The diocese is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Rennes, Dol, and Saint-Malo...
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    2022, in the Diocese of Vannes there was one priest for every 1,884 Catholics. The ancient Gallo-Roman name for the city of Vannes (city of the Veneti)...
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    independence the see of Dol briefly exercised metropolitical functions (mainly tenth century). In 1859 the Breton dioceses except that of Nantes were constituted...
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    came to be particularly venerated in the nine traditional dioceses of Brittany (Cornouaille, Dol, Léon, Nantes, Rennes, Saint-Brieuc, Saint-Malo, Tréguier...
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  • Vannes, Saint-Malo, Nantes, Dol-de-Bretagne and Rennes). The work was expanded and republished under the auspices of Guy Autret of Missirien (Rennes, Jean...
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    Varna Province (category Provinces of Bulgaria)
    (Dolni Chiflik, Avren) Valchi prehod (Dolni Chiflik) Kirov dol (Dolni Chiflik) Varbov dol (Dalgopol) Kalfata (Dalgopol) Golden Sands Nature Park (Varna...
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    covers, besides the ancient diocesan limits, 116 parishes of the ancient Diocese of Langres and 20 belonging to the ancient diocese of Sens. On 8 December...
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    Samsonis, Vita Paterni, and Merovingian Hagiography", St Samson of Dol and the Earliest History of Brittany, Cornwall and Wales, (Lynette Olson, ed.), Boydell...
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    Senj (redirect from Senia (Ancient Rome))
    found in the Lika-Senj County of Croatia, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gospić-Senj and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rijeka. Senj has apparently been...
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    diocese consists of the department of Loire-Atlantique. It has existed since the 4th century. It is now suffragan of the Archdiocese of Rennes, Dol,...
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