Euroea in Phoenicia (also spelled Eurœa in Phœnicia) was a city in the late Roman province of Phoenicia Secunda. today Hawarin, north of al-Qaryatayn and on the road from Damascus to Palmyra. A former bishopric, it remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
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 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.
Bishopric
The Notitiae episcopatuum of the Patriarchate of Antioch (6th century) gives Euroea as a suffragan see of the archdiocese of Damascus. One of its bishops, Thomas, is known in 451; there is some uncertainty about another, John, who lived a little later.
Euroea is included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees. 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.
Titular bishops
It is vacant, having had the following incumbents, of the lowest (episcopal) rank with a single intermediary-rank (archiepiscopal) exception:
- Titular Bishop Hernando Eusebio Oscot y Colombres, Dominican Order (O.P.) (1737.10.01 – 1743.11.28)
- Titular Bishop Franciszek Kazimierz Dowgiałło Zawisza (1744.04.13 – 1766)
- Titular Bishop Antonius Urbański (1769.09.11 – 1770)
- Titular Bishop Józef Ignacy Rybiński (1774.02.28 – 1777.06.23)
- Titular Bishop Antoni Narzymski (1778.07.20 – 1799.12.10)
- Titular Bishop Nikolaus Rauscher (1808.03.16 – 1815)
- Titular Bishop Johann Baptist Judas Thaddeus von Keller (1816.07.22 – 1828.01.28)
- Titular Bishop Johann Amberg (1865.09.25 – 1882.03.16)
- Titular Bishop José Joaquín Isaza Ruiz (1869.11.22 – 1873.03.29)
- Titular Bishop, Bishop-elect Paul-François-Marie Goethals, Jesuits (S.J.) (1878.01.15 – 1878.02.03), Apostolic Vicar of Western Bengal (India) (1877.12.03 – 1886.09.01); later Titular Archbishop of Hierapolis (1878.02.03 – 1886.09.01), finally Metropolitan Archbishop of Calcutta (India) (1886.09.01 – 1901.07.04)
- Titular Bishop Jean-Pierre Boyer (1878.07.15 – 1879.12.24), later Cardinal-Priest of SS. Trinità al Monte Pincio
- Titular Bishop Raffaele Mezzetti (1880.08.20 – 1881)
- Titular Archbishop Thomas Hyland, O.P. (1882.03.10 – 1884.10.09)
- Titular Bishop Johann Zobl (1885.03.27 – 1907.09.13)
- Titular Bishop Jan Feliks Cieplak (1908.07.12 – 1919.03.28), Auxiliary Bishop of Mohilev (Belarus) (1908.07.12 – 1925.12.14), became Titular Archbishop of Acrida (1919.03.28 – 1925.12.14); also Apostolic Administrator of the above Mohilev (Belarus) (1923.07.05 – 1925.12.14), later Metropolitan Archbishop of Vilnius (Lithuania) (1925.12.14 – 1926.02.17)
- Titular Bishop Antonio Maria Capettini (康道華), Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (P.I.M.E.) (1919.04.07 – 1958.07.06)
- Titular Bishop Edoardo Piana Agostinetti (1958.07.21 – 1976.01.14)
Notes
- Joseph Bingham, Origines ecclesiasticæ; or, The antiquities of the Christian Church (1834), p. 307.
- V, xiv.
- See Échos d'Orient, X (1907), 145.
- 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.
- Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 891
- Catholic Hierarchy page,
- ^ "Titular See of Eurœa in Phœnicia, Syria 🇸🇾". GCatholic. GCatholic.org. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
External links
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Euaria". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.