Phacusa
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Phacusa (Template:Langx)[1] was a city in the late Roman province of Augustamnica Prima. It served as a bishopric that was a suffragan of Pelusium, the metropolitan see of that province.
Ptolemy[2] makes it the suffragan of the nomos of Arabia in Lower Egypt; Strabo[3] places Phacusa at the beginning of the canal which empties into the Red Sea; it is described also by Peutinger's Table under the name of Phacussi, and by the Anonymous of Ravenna (130), under Phagusa.
Phacusa is identified widely with the modern Tell-Fakus; Heinrich Brugsch and Edouard Naville[4] place it at Saft el-Hinna, about twelve miles from there.
Bishops
In the list of the partisan bishops of Melitius present at the Council of Nicæa in 325 may be found Moses of Phacusa;[5] he is the only known titular.
Notes
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References
- Attribution
- Template:Catholic The entry cites:
- Rougé, Géographie ancienne de la Basse Egypte (Paris, 1891), 137-39.
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