Rhesaina


Rhesaina was a city in the late Roman province of Mesopotamia Secunda and a bishopric that was a suffragan of Dara.
Rhesaina was an important town at the northern extremity of Mesopotamia, near the sources of the Chaboras represents it as under the jurisdiction of the governor or Dux of Osrhoene. Hierocles also locates it in this province but under the name of Theodosiopolis; it had in fact obtained the favour of Theodosius the Great and taken his name. It was fortified by Justinian. In 1393 it was nearly destroyed by Tamerlane's troops.

Bishops

Rhesaina was also the site of a Bishopric. The Diocese of Rhesaina is today a suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church in the episcopal province of Mesopotania
Le Quien mentions nine bishops of Rhesaena:

Roman bishops

The see is again mentioned in the 10th century in a Greek Notitia episcopatuum of the Patriarchate of Antioch. Le Quien mentions two Jacobite bishops: Scalita, author of a hymn and of homilies, and Theodosius. About a dozen others are known.

Titular bishops