Phacusa

{{About||the genus of moth|Phacusa (moth)|the Greek islands of Koufonisia which were called Phacusai at the past|Koufonisia}}

'''Phacusa''' ({{langx|grc| Φάκουσα and Φάκουσαι}})<ref>[https://topostext.org/work/241#Ph655.1 Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica, Ph655.1]</ref> 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<ref>IV, v, 24.</ref> makes it the suffragan of the nomos of Arabia in Lower Egypt; Strabo<ref>XVII, i, 26.</ref> 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<ref>In "Goshen and the Shrine of Saft el-Henneh" (London, 1885).</ref> 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;<ref>Athanasius, "Apologia contra Arian.", 71.</ref> he is the only known titular.

==Notes== {{Reflist}}

==References==

;Attribution *{{Catholic|wstitle=Phacusa}} The entry cites: **Rougé, ''Géographie ancienne de la Basse Egypte'' (Paris, 1891), 137-39.

Category:Catholic titular sees in Africa