Lorea
Lorea
Titular see in the province of Arabia, suffragan of Bostra. The city figures in the different manuscripts of the “Notitiae episcopatuum” of Antioch in the tenth century under the names of Lourea, Dourea, and Lorea (Echos d’orient, II, 170; X, 95). This is all that is known concerning the city, which is not mentioned by and geographer, and the location of which is unknown.
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S. VAILHÉ Transcribed by Michael T. Barrett
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume IXCopyright © 1910 by Robert Appleton CompanyOnline Edition Copyright © 2003 by K. KnightNihil Obstat, October 1, 1910. Remy Lafort, CensorImprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York