Euroea in Phoenicia (also spelled Eurœa in Phœnicia) was a city in the late

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Phoenicia Secunda Phoenice Libanensis (, also known in Latin as Phoenice Libani, or Phoenice II/Phoenice Secunda), was a province of the Roman Empire, covering the Anti-Lebanon Mountains and the territories to the east, all the way to Palmyra. It was officially cre ...

. today Hawarin, north of

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and on the road from

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. A former bishopric, it remains a

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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

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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 of the

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(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

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's list of

s. The diocese was nominally restored as a Latin

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in 1737 as Evaria, which name was changed to Euhara in 1925, Euaria in 1929 and finally Euroea in Phoenicia in 1933.''Catholic Hierarchy'' page
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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,

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(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,

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(S.J.) (1878.01.15 – 1878.02.03),

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(India) (1886.09.01 – 1901.07.04) * Titular Bishop

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(1878.07.15 – 1879.12.24), later

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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),

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of Mohilev (Belarus) (1908.07.12 – 1925.12.14), became Titular Archbishop of Acrida (1919.03.28 – 1925.12.14); also

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of the above Mohilev (Belarus) (1923.07.05 – 1925.12.14), later Metropolitan Archbishop of

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(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)

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