The first indisputable attestation of a Bishop in the Siwa Oasis
The first indisputable attestation of a Bishop in the Siwa Oasis is given by a recently identified text, a "Historia episcopatus Alexandrie" written towards the end of the 4th century which mentions two Bishops of the oasis ordered by "Theonas d'Alexandrie" between in 282 and 300 AD Athanasius of Alexandria visited the Ammoniaque in the year 332 with the aim of spreading Christianity in Marmarica. For now I have not found any information from this visit apart from the fact th