after leaving valencia, jerome was in the northwest the next month. on 22 june 1102, duke raymond and his wife, urraca, granted him the two churches that stood in zamora at that time. this grant probably took place in zamora. raymond and urraca refer to jerome as "our teacher" ("magistro nostro"). on 26 june 1102, he is first recorded as bishop of salamanca, when duke raymond and his wife, urraca, made a gift to his church. the charter dated 22 june formally re-establishing the dioceses of salamanca and zamora and placing them under jerome was forged after jerome's death and before 1135. it was, however, confirmed by alfonso vi in 1136. the formal installation of jerome as bishop of salamanca and administrator of the sees of zamora and ávila may have taken place at the synod of carrión in early january 1103.