Euroea in Phoenicia

Euroea in Phoenicia 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. There are ruins of a Roman castellum and of a basilica.

Not to be confused with Euroea (Epirus).

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[2] it was situated in the Palmyrene province. Georgius Cyprius calls it Euarios or Justinianopolis.

Bishopric

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] Until 1935 it was called Evaria (Euaria, Euroea).[6]

Notes

1. Joseph Bingham, Origines ecclesiasticæ; or, The antiquities of the Christian Church (1834), p. 307.
2. V, xiv.
3. See Échos d'Orient, X (1907), 145.
4. Le Quien, Michel (1740). Oriens Christianus, in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus: quo exhibentur ecclesiæ, patriarchæ, cæterique præsules totius Orientis. Tomus secundus, in quo Illyricum Orientale ad Patriarchatum Constantinopolitanum pertinens, Patriarchatus Alexandrinus & Antiochenus, magnæque Chaldæorum & Jacobitarum Diœceses exponuntur (in Latin). Paris: Ex Typographia Regia. col. 847. OCLC 955922747.
5. Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 891
6. Catholic Hierarchy page,

External links

• Catholic Encyclopedia, Euaria

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "article name needed". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.