Hephaestus (titular see)

Hephæstus is a Catholic titular see. The original diocese was in Augustamnica Prima, a suffragan of Pelusium. [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).]

It is mentioned by Hierocles ["Synecdemus", 727, 9.] and by George of Cyprus, as among the thirteen towns of Augustamnica Prima.

Bishops

Lequien ["Oriens christianus", II, 547.] mentions only two bishops: John, who took part in the two Councils of Ephesus (431 and 449), and Peter, present at the Council of Constantinople in 459. Both the native name of Hephæstus and its site are unknown.

References

*Heinrich Gelzer, "Georgii Cyprii descriptio orbis romani" (Leipzig, 1890), 112;
*Smith, "Dict. Greek and Roman Geogr.", s. v.

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