Phacusa

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

Phacusa (Ancient Greek: Φάκουσα and Φάκουσαι) 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 makes it the suffragan of the nomos of Arabia in Lower Egypt; Strabo 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 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; he is the only known titular.

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.