Neve (titular see)
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Neve is a Roman Catholic titular see.
Neve was a diocese in Arabia, suffragan of Bostra. Two of its bishops are known:
- Petronius, who attended the Council of Ephesus in 431
- Jobius, who was present at the Council of Chalcedon in 451.
Isaac, a third bishop, mentioned by Le Quien about 540 (Oriens christiana, II, 864) was not a bishop of Neve but of Nineve, and lived at the end of the seventh century ("Echos d'Orient", IV, 11).
The Diocese of Neve is noticed in the Notitia episcopatuum of Antioch in the sixth century ("Echos d'Orient", X, 145), and the city of Neve is referred to by George of Cyprus ("Descriptio orbis romani", ed. Gelzer, 54) in the next century. The "Revue biblique" published (III, 625) some Greek inscriptions from the locality.
A large Muslim village called Nawa, in the Hauran, now occupies the site of this former see and the tower of the ancient Christian church is still visible. Neve must not be confounded with Mount Nebo, situated about 94 miles south of the town.
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This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.
