Hauara was an ancient episcopal see in Palestina Tertia, a suffragan of Petra.
Location
This Hauara, situated between Aila and Petra, is certainly distinct from the Hauara of Stephen of Byzantium, the Leuke kome of the Greeks, a harbour of the Red Sea; but it has been impossible to discover its location. It is unknown even when it became a titular see, because it formerly had no bishop, and does not figure in any episcopal Notitiae.
The Tabula Peutingeriana locates a place of this name thirty-eight miles of Petra (see Clermont-Ganneau in "Revue biblique", N.S. III, 419–421). The city is also mentioned by Ptolemy (V, 16) and by the Notitia dignitatum (ed. Boecking, 79), which mentions the garrison of equites sagittarri indigenae.
At one time it was reckoned as a Catholic titular see, but it is no longer included among the titular sees listed in the Annuario Pontificio.
References
- Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), "Sedi titolari", pp. 819-1013
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Hauara". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. The entry cites:- 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. 11507. OCLC 955922747.