showed the existence of the temple, but this was the first time that ruins of the temple were found. Roman military roads Of the six military roads formed or adopted by the Romans in Egypt, the following are mentioned in the Itinerarium of Antoninus as connected with Pelusium: From Memphis to Pelusium. This road joined the great road from Pselcis in Nubia at Babylon, nearly opposite Memphis, and coincided with it as far as Scenae Veteranorum. The two roads, viz. that from Pselcis to Scenae Veteranorum, which turned off to the east at Heliopolis, and that from Memphis to Pelusium, connected the latter city with the capital of Lower Egypt, Trajan's canal, and Arsinoe, near Suez, on the Sinus Heroopolites (modern Gulf of Suez). From Acca to Alexandria, ran along the Mediterranean Sea from Raphia to Pelusium. Ecclesiastical history Pelusium is named (as "Sin, the strength of Egypt") in the Biblical Book of Ezekiel, chapter 30:15. Pelusium became the seat of a Christian bishop at an early stage. Its bishop Dorotheus took part in the First Council of Nicaea in 325. In 335, Marcus was exiled because of his support for Athanasius of Alexandria. His replacement Pancratius, an exponent of Arianism, was at the Second Council of Sirmium in 351. Several of the succeeding known bishops of Pelusium were also considered heretical by the orthodox. As the capital of the Roman province of Augustamnica Prima, Pelusium was ecclesiastically the metropolitan see of the province. Pelusium is still the seat of a metropolitan bishopric of the modern-day Eastern Orthodox Church. Isidore of Pelusium (d. c.450), who was born in Alexandria, became an ascetic and settled on a mountain near Pelusium, in the tradition of the Desert Fathers. Pelusium is today listed by the Catholic Church as a Metropolitan titular archbishopric both in the Latin Church and the Eastern Catholic Melkite Catholic Church. Latin titular see In the nineteenth century, the diocese was nominally restored as a Metropolitan titular archbishopric Pelusium of the Romans. It is vacant since decades, having had the following incumbents, of the highest rank with a single episcopal (lowest rank) exception : Joseph Sadoc Alemany y Conill, Dominican Order (O.P.) (1885.03.20 – 1888.04.14) Guido Corbelli, Order of Observant Friars Minor (O.F.M. Obs.) (1888.03.08 – 1896.06.22) Giovanni Nepomuceno Glavina (1896.12.03 – 1899.11) Alphonse-Martin Larue (1899.12.14 – 1903.05.01) Theodor Kohn (1904.06.10 – 1915.12.03) Titular Bishop John Francis Regis Canevin (1921.01.09