Rhesaina
Rhesaina or Resina 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 MesopotamiaLe Quien mentions nine bishops of Rhesaena:
Roman bishops
- Antiochus, present at the First Council of Nicaea ;
- Eunomius, who forced the Persians to raise the siege of the town;
- John, at the Council of Antioch ;
- Olympius, at the Council of Chalcedon ;
- Andrew ;
- Peter, exiled with Sevenian ;
- Ascholius, his successor, a Monophysite;
- Daniel ;
- Sebastianus, a correspondent of Gregory the Great.
Middle Ages
Titular bishops
- Joseph-Louis Coudé,
- Alexander MacDonell
- Antonio Maria de J. Campos Moreno
- Francis McNeirny
- Domenico Scopelliti
- Vicente Huarte y San Martín
- Joseph Gjonali
- Gerardo Valencia Cano,