Terenuthis was a town in Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization of Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt. Egyptian civilization coalesced around 3150 BC with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh...

. Located roughly on the spot of the modern town of Tarrana, approximately 70 km north of Cairo

Cairo

Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...

 in the western delta, it was named after the ancient Egyptian god Renenutet

Renenutet

In Egyptian mythology, Renenutet was the anthropomorphic deification of the act of gaining a true name, an aspect of the soul, during birth. Her name simply meaning, gives Ren, with Ren being the Egyptian word for this true name...

. Renenutet is one of the most ancient gods in the Egyptian pantheon, and in later worship was merged with other Egyptian gods like Wadjet

Wadjet

In Egyptian mythology, Wadjet, or the Green One , was originally the ancient local goddess of the city of Dep , which became part of the city that the Egyptians named Per-Wadjet, House of...

. Renenutet was possibly a local protecting deity in pre-dynastic times, as Terenuthis is the oldest known center of her cult.

Tarrana in the Province of Beherah replaces Terenuthis, now known as Kom Abu Billo, 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 lavra

Lavra

In Orthodox Christianity and certain other Eastern Christian communities Lavra or Laura originally meant a cluster of cells or caves for hermits, with a church and sometimes a refectory at the center...

s of these names.

There are archaeological remains dating at least from the Middle Kingdom

Middle Kingdom

Middle Kingdom may refer to:*China, traditional translation of its common name, Zhōngguó *Middle Kingdom of Egypt*Middle kingdoms of India...

. There is a necropolis

Necropolis

A necropolis is a large cemetery or burial ground, usually including structural tombs. The word comes from the Greek νεκρόπολις - nekropolis, literally meaning "city of the dead"...

. From the Ptolemaic period dates a (now mostly destroyed) temple dedicated to Hathor-Thermutis originally built by Ptolemaeus I and II.

Roman Catholic

In Roman Catholicism Terenuthis is the name of a Catholic titular see

Titular see

A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular bishop", "titular metropolitan", or "titular archbishop"....

. The original diocese was in Egypt, a suffragan of Antinoë in Thebais Prima.

Bishops

Le Quien mentions two of its bishops: Arsinthius in 404; Eulogius at the First Council of Ephesus in 431. The monks sometimes sought refuge there during incursions of the Maziks. John Moschus went there at the beginning of the seventh century. There is frequent mention of this town in Christian Coptic literature

Coptic literature

Coptic literature is the body of writings in the Coptic language of Egypt, the last stage of the indigenous Egyptian language. It comprises mostly Christian texts dating after the 2nd century AD, but also includes Old Coptic writings that predate the Christian era.There have been only a few...

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