Ptolemais Hermiou

Ptolemais Hermiou

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Ptolemais Hermiou, or Ptolemais in the Thebaid, was a city and metropolitan archbishopric in Greco-Roman Egypt and remains a Catholic titular see.

Today, the city of El Mansha (

Arabic: المنشأة)^[1]-Bsoi (Coptic: ⲡⲥⲟⲓ) in the Sohag Governorate

is located where the ancient city used to be.

History

Ptolemais Hermiou was established on the west bank of the Nile at the site of the Egyptian village of Psoï ( in the Thinis nome by the Ptolemaic ruler Ptolemy I Soter sometime after 312 BCE.^[2] Whether it was intended from the outset to replace Thebes as a political centre is disputed.^[3] The name Hermiou could refer to a person called Hermias that could have coordinated the foundation for Ptolemy.^[4]

According to

Ptolemaic Dynasty. There was also a theater and actor's guild present in the city.^[7]

Titular see

The provincial capital and hence Metropolitan archdiocese of the Late

titular archbishopric

in the late 19th century as Ptolemais antea Syis, renamed simply Ptolemais in 1925, Ptolemais in Thebaide in 1933.

It has been vacant for decades, having had the following incumbents of the highest rank :

Lorenzo Passerini (1892.07.11 – 1901.04.18), later

Titular Latin Patriarch of Antioch

(1901.04.18 – 1915.12.13)

Luigi Canali, Franciscans (O.F.M. Obs.) (1901.08.03 – 1905.04.22)
José Marcondes Homem de Melo (1906.12.06 – 1908.08.09)
Raffaele Virili (1915.01.14 – 1925.03.09)
Paolo Giobbe (1925.03.30 – 1958.12.15) (later Cardinal)
Pietro Parente (1959.10.23 – 1965.12.07) (later Cardinal)

References

^ "Al Manshah, Egypt" Falling Rain Genomics, Inc.
^ Mckechnie, Paul; Outsiders in the Greek Cities in the Fourth Century BC.
^ Pfeiffer, Stefan: Griechische und lateinische Inschriften zum Ptolemäerreich und zur römischen Provinz Aegyptus. Münster: Lit, 2015, p. 25.
^ Huß, Werner: Die Verwaltung des ptolemaiischen Reichs. München: C. H. Beck, 2011, p. 25.
^ Pfeiffer, Stefan: Griechische und lateinische Inschriften zum Ptolemäerreich und zur römischen Provinz Aegyptus. Münster: Lit, 2015, p. 41–45.
^ Cohen, Getzel M. The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa, pp. 350
^ OGIS 51 - Greek inscription in English translation

External links

GCatholic, with titular incumbent bio links

26°29′N 31°48′E / 26.483°N 31.800°E / 26.483; 31.800

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[1] "Al Manshah, Egypt" Falling Rain Genomics, Inc.

[2] Mckechnie, Paul; Outsiders in the Greek Cities in the Fourth Century BC.

[3] Pfeiffer, Stefan: Griechische und lateinische Inschriften zum Ptolemäerreich und zur römischen Provinz Aegyptus. Münster: Lit, 2015, p. 25.

[4] Huß, Werner: Die Verwaltung des ptolemaiischen Reichs. München: C. H. Beck, 2011, p. 25.

[5] Pfeiffer, Stefan: Griechische und lateinische Inschriften zum Ptolemäerreich und zur römischen Provinz Aegyptus. Münster: Lit, 2015, p. 41–45.

[6] Cohen, Getzel M. The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa, pp. 350

[7] OGIS 51 - Greek inscription in English translation

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Regions		Akhmim El Balyana Dar El Salam Girga El Mansha El Maragha Saqultah Sohag Tahta Tima El Usayrat
Important sites	Abydos Beit Khallaf El Hawawish Hut-Repyt Aphrodito El Salamuni Tjebu
Monasteries and Mosques: Monastery of the Martyrs Red Monastery White Monastery Sidi Arif Mosque

Macedonian colonies
Africa	Alexandria Ptolemais Hermiou
Asia	Ai-Khanoum Alexandretta Antioch Apamea Alexandria Arachosia Alexandria Ariana Alexandria Eschate Alexandria in the Caucasus Alexandria on the Indus Alexandria Prophthasia Attalia Edessa Laodicea Paralos Laodicea in Phoenicia Nicaea Philadelphia Seleucia Seleucia Pieria Serraepolis
Europe	Antigonia (Paeonia) Alexandropolis Maedica