Phacusa ()Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica, Ph655.1 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.
PtolemyIV, v, 24. makes it the suffragan of the nomos of Arabia in Lower Egypt; StraboXVII, i, 26. 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 NavilleIn "Goshen and the Shrine of Saft el-Henneh" (London, 1885). 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;Athanasius, "Apologia contra Arian.", 71. he is the only known titular.
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References
Attribution The entry cites: Rougé, Géographie ancienne de la Basse Egypte (Paris, 1891), 137-39.