Ptolemais Hermiou


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 -Bsoi 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 as well as a cult for the worship of the Ptolemaic Dynasty. There was also a theater and actor's guild present in the city.

Titular see

The provincial capital and hence Metropolitan archdiocese of the Late Roman province of Thebais Secunda, which had faded, was nominally restored as a Latin Metropolitan 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 :