Beroea

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Archaeological Museum of Veria

Beroea (or Berea) was an ancient city of the

Christian Gospel
.

Location

Berea was in southwestern Macedonia. The city's foundation stood where Veria, or Kar-Verria, in Greece is today. Its a unique position has had a variety of terrain surrounding the city since then.

Berea sat at the base of

hydroelectric dam on the Haliacmon powering the area's industrial sector.[1]

History

The city is reputed to have been named by its mythical founder Beres (also spelled Pheres) or from the daughter of the king of Berroia, who was thought to be the son of Macedon.

A city of the same name that is mentioned in a section of Thucydides's history, which dates it to be around 432 BC. In Polybius's history there were two insertions about an inscription that dates the city back to the later part of the 4th century BC. No one has verified the historical date of the establishment of the city although it has been known to have been surrendered to the Romans from the Macedonians after the Battle of Pydna in 168 BC.[citation needed]

Veria enjoyed great prosperity under the kings of the

Koinon of Macedonians (Κοινόν Μακεδόνων), minted its own coinage and held sports games named Alexandreia in honour of Alexander the Great, with athletes from all over Greece competing in them.[2]

The city was the first

Thessalonica and Beroea, one of them passing close to the ancient city of Pella. There are some assumptions that the Apostle Paul used that route when he visited Beroea.[citation needed
]

Within the city there was a

Thessalonica, and his companion, Silas
, preached to the Jewish and Greek communities of the city in AD 50/51 or 54/55.

In the 7th century, the

History of Veria
.

New Testament references

Paul, Silas, and Timothy traveled to Beroea by night after fleeing from

scriptures to see if Paul and Silas were teaching the truth'.[7] Many of the Beroeans believed, both men and women, but when the Jewish Thessalonian non-believers heard about that, they came to Beroea; stirred up crowds; started riots and ensured that Paul, Silas, and Timothy could not preach. Then, the believers sent Paul to the coast while Timothy and Silas stayed behind. Paul was taken to Athens, and word was given to Timothy and Silas to join him as soon as possible. (Acts 17:10–15
)

Paul and Silas ministered to the

Jewish community of Beroea around 54 and 55 A.D. The two men had been driven out of the city of Thessalonica by an angry mob for spreading the gospel there. Paul and Silas made their journey from Thessalonica to Beroea by night (Acts 17:10). It is also said that Timothy, a student of Paul, joined him during the journey to Beroea. The people of Beroea were more accepting than the people of Thessalonica of the message from the Apostle and his companions. The community was said to consider carefully what they learned from Paul before truly believing it (Acts 17:11–12
).

After Paul, Silas and the other members of their group had spent several days in Beroea, some Jews from Thessalonica got word that Paul and Silas were preaching in Beroea and stirred up trouble, and Paul was again forced to leave. Some members of the congregation helped Paul to get to Athens, but Silas and Timothy stayed in Beroea, then later caught up with Paul in the city of Corinth (Acts 18:5). Later, Sopater of Berea joined Paul on his journey (Acts 20:4). It is said[citation needed] that Sopater was ordered by a delegation from Beroea to go to Judea with funds that would help the needy of that region.

Bishopric

A

Roman Catholic episcopal see of Berrhoea, centred on northern Greece, is today a vacant titular see
.

History

Photius.[8][9]

The Byzantine emperor

metropolitan see by 1300.[10] Berrhoea is listed by the Roman Catholic Church as a titular see.[11][12]

At the time of the last partition of the empire, it was allotted to Macedonia Prima,

Thessalonica
.

Under

Andronicus II
(1283–1328) Beroea was made a metropolis.

The Greek metropolitans added the title of Naoussa, a neighbouring city. It has about 10,000 inhabitants.[14]

Known bishops

Amongst its bishops were:

Catholic titular bishops of Berrhoea

  • Alfredo Ottaviani (April 5, 1962 – April 19, 1962 )
  • Pierre-Auguste-Marie-Joseph Douillard (May 22, 1963 – August 20, 1963)
  • Friedrich Kaiser Depel (October 29, 1963 – September 26, 1993)[16]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Berea". Meander Travel.
  2. ^ Λούκιος ή Όνος 34.15–17
  3. ^ (greek) hellasportal.gr,Apostle Paul preach in Veria[permanent dead link], accessed June 1, 2008.
  4. ISBN 0-19-504652-8
    .
  5. ^ New Living Translation https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts17:10-12&version=NLT accessed 26 September 2015
  6. ^ New American Bible translation https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts17:10-12&version=NABRE accessed 26 September 2015
  7. ^ Acts 17:11
  8. ^ Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Paris 1740, Vol. II, coll. 69–74
  9. ^ Raymond Janin, v. 1. Berrhée in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. VIII, 1935, coll. 885–887
  10. ISBN 978-0-19-504652-6
    .
  11. ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1
    ), p. 838
  12. ^ Berrhoea .
  13. Synecdemos
    , 638
  14. ^ Beroea at newadvetn.org.
  15. ^ Kenneth Meyer Setton, The Papacy and the Levant, 1204–1571 (American Philosophical Society, 1976) p30.
  16. ^ entry in catholic-hierarchy.org (English)

Further reading

External links

Media related to Beroea at Wikimedia Commons

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