Terenuthis

Terenuthis is a Catholic titular see. The original diocese was in Egypt, a suffragan of Antinoë in Thebais Prima.

Tarrana in the Province of Beherah replaces Terenuthis, now known as Kom Abu Billo [http://www.egyptsites.co.uk/lower/delta/western/abubillo.html] , the ruins of which lie about a mile and a quarter to the west. About nine miles away are Lake Nitria and Lake Scetis, near which were the lavras of these names.

Bishops

Le Quien ["Oriens christianus", II, 611.] mentions two of its bishops: Arsinthius in 404; Eulogius at the Council of Ephesus in 431. The monks sometimes sought refuge there during incursions of the Maziks. [Cotelier, "Ecclesiæ græcæ monumenta", I, 393.] John Moschus went there at the beginning of the seventh century. [Pratum spirituale, LIV, CXIV.] There is frequent mention of this town in Christian Coptic literature.

References

*"Georgii Cyprii Descriptio orb. rom.", ed. Heinrich Gelzer, 125;
*AMÉLINEAU, "La géog. de l'Egypte a l'époque Copte" (Paris, 1893), 493.

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