- Ibora (titular see)
Ibora is a
titular see in the Roman Catholic ecclesiastical province of Helenopont, suffragan ofAmasia . Its site is atTurhal ,Tokat Province ,Turkey . According to some sources, the primitive name of the city wasGaziura , formerly a royal city, mentioned byStrabo as deserted (XII, xv:Dio Cassius , xxxv, 12). In fact a Greek inscription, which dates from the time ofMithridates VI of Pontus , has been discovered on the rock of the fortress; a subterranean gallery, hewn from the rock, descends to the interior of the mountain and served perhaps as a secret depository for the royal treasures.Evagrius Ponticus , the famousOrigen ist ascetic of thefourth century , was a native of Ibora (Sozomen, "Hist. Eccl.," VI, xxx); situated not far from it wasArnesi , the property ofSaint Basil , who led a religious life on the bank of the river Iris with his friendSaint Gregory and his sister Macrina. There is frequent mention in the correspondence of these two saints of Ibora, which, according toProcopius ("Historia Arcana", xviii), was destroyed by anearthquake in thesixth century .Le Quien ("Oriens Christ.", I, 533) mentions seven bishops of Ibora, from the fourth to theninth century . The bishopric still existed about the year1170 underManuel Comnenus (Hierocles;Parthey , "Hieroclis Synecdemus," 108).ee also
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Gaziura
*Talaura
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* [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07615a.htm Catholic Encyclopedia]
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