- Thmuis
Thmuis (Greek: polytonic|Θμουίς; Arabic: "Tell El-Timai") is a city of Lower Egypt, on the canal east of the Nile, between its Tanitic and Mendesian branches. In Greco-Roman
Egypt , Thumis replacedDjedet as the capital ofLower Egypt 's 16th nome ofKha [Herodotus (II, 166) ] . The two cities are only several hundred meters apart.Ptolemy also states that the city was the capital of theMendesian nome .Thumis was an episcopal see in the Roman province of
Augustamnica Prima , suffragan ofPelusium . Today it is part of the Coptic Holy Metropolitanate of Beheira (Thmuis &Hermopolis Parva ), Mariout (Mariotis),Marsa Matruh (Antiphrae &Paractorium ),Libya (Livis) andPentapolis (Cyrenaica ).In the fourth century it was still an important Roman city, having its own administration and being exempt from the jurisdiction of the
Prefect of Alexandria . It was in existence at the time of theArab invasion in 641 AD, and was later called Al-Mourad or Al-Mouradeh; it must have disappeared after the Turkish conquest.Its ruins are at "Tell El-Timai", about five miles north-west of
Sinbellawein , a station on the railway fromZagazig toMansourah in the central Delta.Le Quien ("Oriens christianus", II, 537) names nine bishops of Thmuis, the last three beingMonophysites of the Middle Ages. The others are:*
St. Phileas , martyr (in theMartyrology ,4 February )
*Saint Donatus , his successor, martyr
*Liberius (not Caius), at theFirst Council of Nicaea in 325
*Saint Serapion of Thmuis , died shortly before 360, the author of various works, in part preserved, a friend ofSt. Athanasius
*Ptolemæus at theCouncil of Seleucia (359)
*Aristobulus, at theCouncil of Ephesus (431).See also
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Serapion Bishop of Thmuis Source
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* Baines & Malek Cultural Atlas of Ancient Egypt, 2000. ISBN 0-8160-4036-2
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