BOTRYS (Botrus). — Today Batrun, a city of Phoenicia, whose bishop Porphyrius signed the acts of the Council of Chalcedon (448). Reorganized in 1848, it was joined to that of Gbaji (Gibailen[sis] et Botryen[sis] Maronitarum); both, governed by patriarchal vicars, constitute the particular diocese of the patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites. In 1932 it had 46,984 faithful, 112 priests, and 40 parishes.
BIBL.: M. Le Quien, Oriens christ., II, Paris 1740, cols. 827–28 and III, cols. 91–92; P. B. Gams, Series episcop., Regensburg 1873, p. 434; S. Congregazione orientale, Statistica..., Vatican City 1932, p. 60. Alberto Galicci