The archeparchy includes the region of Hawran, in southern Syria, bordering the states of Israel and Jordan.
Only in 1763 the Melkite Catholic patriarch Michel Jawhar ordered for the seat of Bosra Archimandrite Francis Siaj.
He was probably only a titular bishop; in fact, when he was elected patriarch (1796), did not bother and perhaps did not have time to appoint a successor on the seat he had left vacant.
In 1798 the new Patriarch Agapius II Matar, wanting to raise the episcopate his brother Athanasius, named him the Archbishop of Bosra; However, only two years later transferred him to the bishopric of Sidon.
One of the first concerns of Patriarch Maximos III Mazloum was to visit in person this old archeparchy abandoned; noted the progress of Catholicism among the ranks of the Melkites, and then decided to restore the seat by appointing the monk Lazarus Fasfous, who took the name of Cyril.