Euroea in Phoenicia

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Euroea in Phoenicia (Italian Eurea di Fenicia) is a Catholic titular see, until 1935 called Evaria (Euaria, Euroea).[1]

It was originally a diocese in Phoenicia Libani.[2] It is today El Hawârin, north of Karyatein and on the road from Damascus to Palmyra. There are ruins of a Roman castellum and of a basilica.

Euaria (Hawârin) is to be distinguished from Hauara or Havara, another titular see in Palaestina Tertia, south of Petra.

[edit] History

The true name of this city seems to have been Hawârin; as such it appears in a Syriac inscription of the fourth to the sixth century. According to Ptolemy[3] it was situated in the Palmyrene province. Georgius Cyprius calls it Euarios or Justinianopolis.

The Notitiae episcopatuum of the Patriarchate of Antioch (sixth century) gives it as a suffragan see of the archdiocese of Damascus.[4] One of its bishops, Thomas, is known in 451; there is some uncertainty about another, John, who lived a little later[5].

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Catholic Hierarchy page, [1]
  2. ^ Joseph Bingham, Origines ecclesiasticæ; or, The antiquities of the Christian Church (1834), p. 307.
  3. ^ V, xiv.
  4. ^ See Echos d'Orient, X (1907), 145.
  5. ^ Lequien, Oriens christianus, II, 847.

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This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.