Zoara is a Roman Catholic titular see of Palestina Tertia. It is the ancient Bala or Segor, one of the five cities of the Pentapolis in Genesis in the Tanakh or Old Testament, which escaped the thunder and lightning which destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, for having sheltered Lot and his family. It is mentioned by Josephus; Ptolemy (V, xvi, 4); and by Eusebius and Saint Jerome in the Onomasticon. Some bishops have been ascribed to Zoara; * Musonius, at Ephesus (449), and at Chalcedon (451); * Isidore in 518;and * John in 536..