Eurœa in Phœnicia

Euroa in Phoenicia (also spelled Eurœa in Phœnicia) is a former Ancient Roman bishopric and present Latin Catholic titular see.

History

Euoea in Phoenicia, whose Ancient site is in modern Syria, was important enough in the Roman province of Phoenicia Secunda to become a suffragan bishopric of the Metropolitan of Damascus, but it faded.

Titular see

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.

It is vacant, having had the following incumbents, of the lowest (episcopal) rank with a single intermediary-rank (archiepiscopal) exception:

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