Areopolis

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(Rabbath-Moab).

A titular see of Palestine. Its episcopal list (449-536) is given in Gams p. 454). There was another town of the same name in Lydia, Asia Minor.

Sources

LEQUIEN, Oriens Christ. (1740), III, 536; SMITH, Dict. of Greek and Roman Geogr., I, 197.

Source Record

Publication: The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1907.
Nihil Obstat: Nihil Obstat. March 1, 1907. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor.
Imprimatur: Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.