Phacusa

Phacusa (Ancient Greek: Φάκουσα and Φάκουσαι)[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.

For the genus of moth, see Phacusa (moth).
For the Greek islands of Koufonisia which were called Phacusai at the past, see Koufonisia.

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 titular we know of.

Notes
  1. Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica, Ph655.1
  2. IV, v, 24.
  3. XVII, i, 26.
  4. In "Goshen and the Shrine of Saft el-Henneh" (London, 1885).
  5. Athanasius, "Apologia contra Arian.", 71.

References
Attribution
  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Phacusa". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. The entry cites:
    • Rougé, Géographie ancienne de la Basse Egypte (Paris, 1891), 137-39.

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