FARAMA, AL- (Pelusium), city located in the northwest corner of
the Sinai Peninsula about 14 miles (22.5 km) east of the Suez
Canal and 3 miles (5 km) inland from the Mediterranean Sea.
Coptic tradition holds that the Holy Family stopped in al-Farama
during the FLIGHT INTO EGYPT. Attestations of Christianity in
Pelusium in the Byzantine period are numerous. The Melitian
bishop Kallinikos was in office in the city as early as A.D.
325. SOZOMEN reports that the patriarch ALEXANDER I (312-326)
brought Kallinikos into the office of bishop and that ATHANASIUS
(326-373), the next patriarch, excommunicated him and replaced
him with a man named Mark (Historia ecclesiastica 2.25). The
name of Kallinikos, however, does not appear in the lists of
participants in the Council of NICAEA in 325. Instead, the lists
show that Bishop Dorotheus represented Pelusium at Nicaea.
Nonetheless, around 335 Kallinikos attended a synod in Tyre as
bishop of Pelusium and in 351 he subscribed the canons of the
Council of Sardica as bishop