ABSTRACT
When the Cid had consolidated his power in the East by the capture of Murviedro, he set about the reorganization of the Christian community of Valencia by restoring its bishopric. From the earliest times the Valencian Mozarabs had had a bishop at the head of their clergy, and in 1087 there is record of a Bishop of Valencia who died at Bari when leading a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. 1 The fact that he carried as a relic an arm of St. Vincent, the martyr, points to the Church of St. Vincent, in the suburb of Rayosa, as having been the Mozarab centre at Valencia. In 1090 the Cid, as already mentioned, imposed a tithe for the Mozarab Bishop, who left Valencia, however, when Ibn Jehhaf revolted.
