Diora

Diora (or Deora) was a medieval Bishop of Rochester.

Diora was consecrated between 765 and 772. He died between 781 and 785.^[1] Around 779 or so King Ethelbert granted land inside the city of Rochester to Diora and his cathedral clergy.^[2]

Citations

References

• Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
• Smith, R. A. L. (1945). "The Early Community of St. Andrew at Rochester, 604-c. 1080". The English Historical Review. 60 (238): 289–299. doi:10.1093/ehr/LX.CCXXXVIII.289.

External links

• Deora 2 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England

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