Hephaestus, Egypt

Hephæstus was a town in Roman Egypt, in the province of Augustamnica Prima, the eastern part of the Nile Delta.

The name Hephæstus is known only from ecclesiastical sources; its Egyptian name and its site are unknown.

Ecclesiastical history

The original diocese was in Augustamnica Prima, a suffragan of Pelusium.^[1]

It is mentioned by Hierocles^[2] and by George of Cyprus, as among the thirteen towns of Augustamnica Prima.

Lequien^[3] mentions only two bishops: John, who took part in two Councils of Ephesus (First, 431 and Second, 449), and Peter, present at the Council of Constantinople in 459.

It remains a Roman Catholic titular see.

Notes

1. ↑ Parthey's Notitia Prima and the Coptic allusion to it published by J. de Rougé, in his "Géographie ancienne de la Basse Egypte" (Paris, 1891, 157).
2. ↑ Synecdemus, 727, 9.
3. ↑ Oriens christianus, II, 547.

References

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Hephæstus". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton.  The entry cites:
  • Heinrich Gelzer, Georgii Cyprii descriptio orbis romani (Leipzig, 1890), 112;
• Smith, Dict. Greek and Roman Geogr., s. v.