Orthosias (titular see)

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Orthosias is a Catholic titular see. The original diocese was in Phœnicia Prima, suffragan of Tyre.

The discovery on the banks of the Eleutherus of Orthosian coins, dating from Antoninus Pius and bearing figures of Astarte, led to the identification of the site of Orthosias near the River El-Barid at a spot marked by ruins, called Bordj Hakmon el-Yehoudi.

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[edit] History and geography

The city is mentioned for the first time in I Mach., xv, 37, as a Phœnician port[1]; Pliny[2] places it between Tripoli, on the south, and the River Eleutherus, on the north; Strabo[3], near the Eleutherus; Peutinger's "Table", agreeing with Hierocles, George of Cyprus, and others, indicates it between Tripoli and Antaradus.

[edit] Bishops

Le Quien[4] mentions four bishops, beginning with Phosphorus in the fifth century. Two Latin titulars of the fourteenth century appear in Eubel.[5] In the Notitiae Episcopatuum of Antioch for the sixth century[6] Orthosias is suffragan of Tyre, while in that of the tenth century (op. cit., X, 97) it is confounded with Antaradus or Tortosa.

[edit] References

  • BEURLIER in VIGOUROUX, Dict. de la Bible, s. v.;
  • SMITH, Dict. of Greek and Roman Geography, II, 407.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ D. V., Orthosias.
  2. ^ Hist. Nat., V, xvii.
  3. ^ Geographia, XVI, ii, 12, 15.
  4. ^ Oriens Christianus, II, 825.
  5. ^ "Hierarchia cath. medii ævi", I, 396.
  6. ^ "Echos d'Orient", X, 145.

[edit] External link

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