Euroea in Phoenicia (also spelled Eurœa in Phœnicia) was a city in the late Roman province of Phoenicia Secunda. [1] today Hawarin, north of al-Qaryatayn and on the road from Damascus to Palmyra. A former bishopric, it remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
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 [2] it was situated in the Palmyrene province. Georgius Cyprius calls it Euarios or Justinianopolis.
There are ruins of a Roman castellum and of a basilica.
The Notitiae episcopatuum of the Patriarchate of Antioch (6th century) gives Euroea as a suffragan see of the archdiocese of Damascus. [3] One of its bishops, Thomas, is known in 451; there is some uncertainty about another, John, who lived a little later. [4]
Euroea is included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees. [5] The diocese was nominally restored as a Latin titular bishopric in 1737 as Evaria, which name was changed to Euhara in 1925, Euaria in 1929 and finally Euroea in Phoenicia in 1933. [6] [7]
It is vacant, having had the following incumbents, of the lowest (episcopal) rank with a single intermediary-rank (archiepiscopal) exception: [7]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). " Euaria". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
Euroea in Phoenicia (also spelled Eurœa in Phœnicia) was a city in the late Roman province of Phoenicia Secunda. [1] today Hawarin, north of al-Qaryatayn and on the road from Damascus to Palmyra. A former bishopric, it remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
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 [2] it was situated in the Palmyrene province. Georgius Cyprius calls it Euarios or Justinianopolis.
There are ruins of a Roman castellum and of a basilica.
The Notitiae episcopatuum of the Patriarchate of Antioch (6th century) gives Euroea as a suffragan see of the archdiocese of Damascus. [3] One of its bishops, Thomas, is known in 451; there is some uncertainty about another, John, who lived a little later. [4]
Euroea is included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees. [5] The diocese was nominally restored as a Latin titular bishopric in 1737 as Evaria, which name was changed to Euhara in 1925, Euaria in 1929 and finally Euroea in Phoenicia in 1933. [6] [7]
It is vacant, having had the following incumbents, of the lowest (episcopal) rank with a single intermediary-rank (archiepiscopal) exception: [7]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). " Euaria". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.