2. ABUCARA (Ἀβουκαρᾶ, an Arabic name signifying " Father (sc. bishop) of Cara; " derived from the city of which Theodore was bishop), a Greek ecclesiastical writer.
He flourished, at the latest, in the beginning of the ninth century, and is to be carefully distinguished from Theodorus, bishop of Caria in Thrace [No. 20], the contemporary of Photius; from Theodore of Rhaithu [No. 65], and from Theodore of Antioch, otherwise Theodore Hagiopolita [No. 11], with each of whom he appears to have been, by various writers, improperly confounded. Very little is known of him. The time at which he lived is ascertained by the inscription to a piece published among his works, from which it appears that he was contemporary with the patriarch Thomas of Jerusalem, probably Thomas I., whose patriarchate extended from A. D. 807, or earlier, to somewhere between A. D. 821 and 829. (Comp. Le Quien, Oriens Christianus, vol. iii. col. 356.) Of what place Abucara was bishop has been much disputed, but it appears probable that it was a village called Cara or Charran in Coele-Syria.