A titular see of Palestine, twelve miles west of the Jordan. Its episcopal list is given in Gams (p. 453). Another town of the same name, in Cappadocia, was founded by Archelaus, the last of the Cappadocian kings.
Archelais
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Source notes
LEQUIEN, Oriens Christ. (1740), III, 675-676; SMITH, Dict. of Greek and Roman Geogr., I, 193.
APA citation. Archelais. (1907). In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01694c.htm
MLA citation. "Archelais." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. <https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01694c.htm>.
Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. March 1, 1907. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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Source Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) · Letter A