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References
- ↑ Jerusalem Patriarchate website, Apostolic Succession section
- ↑ Reynolds, Daniel, 'Death of a Patriarch: The Murder of Yūḥannā ibn Jamī (d. 966) and the Question of “Melkite” Identity in Early Islamic Palestine', in Rutger Kramer, and Walter Pohl (eds.), Empires and Communities in the Post-Roman and Islamic World, C. 400-1000 CE (New York, 2021; online edn, Oxford Academic, 20 Jan. 2022), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190067946.003.0008
- ↑ Steven Runciman, A History of the Crusades, vol. 1 The First Crusade (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), p. 30.
