Ibora is a titular see in the Roman Catholic Church Roman Catholic ecclesiastical province of Helenopont, suffragan of Amasia . Its site is at Turhal , Tokat Province , Turkey . According to some sources, the primitive name of the city was Gaziura , formerly a royal city, mentioned by Strabo as deserted XII, xv Dio Cassius , xxxv, 12 . In fact a Greek language Greek inscription, which dates from the time of Mithridates 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 famous Origen ist ascetic of the fourth century, was a native of Ibora Sozomen, Hist. Eccl., VI, xxx situated not far from it was Arnesi , the property of Saint Basil , who led a religious life on the bank of the river Ye il River Iris with his friend Saint Gregory and his sister Macrina the Younger Macrina . There is frequent mention in the correspondence of these two saints of Ibora, which, according to Procopius Historia Arcana , xviii , was destroyed by an earthquake in the sixth century. Le Quien Oriens Christ. , I, 533 mentions seven bishops of Ibora, from the fourth to the ninth century. The bishopric still existed about the year 1170 under Manuel Comnenus Hierocles author of Synecdemus Hierocles Parthey , Hieroclis Synecdemus, 108 . See also Gaziura Talaura Turhal References http www.newadvent.org cathen 07615a.htm Catholic Encyclopedia SmithDGRG Catholic Former settlements in Turkey Category Roman towns and cities in Turkey Category Ancient Greek sites in Turkey Category Pontus Category Titular sees Category Former populated places in Turkey Category History of Tokat Province AncientGreece stub Europe RC diocese stub de Ibora it Diocesi di Ibora ... more details
1986 , p. 205. ref Arnesi File Basil of Caesarea icon.jpg thumb Russian icon of Basil of Caesarea ... on his family estate at Arnesi in Pontus. ref Encyclopaedia Britannica 15th ed. vol. 1, p. 938 ..., Gregory of Nazianzus, asking Gregory to join him in Arnesi. ref Rousseau 1994 , p. 66. ref Gregory ... more details
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