); (Coptic: Ⲕⲁⲓⲥ or Ⲕⲟⲉⲓⲥ[5]) in the seventeenth nome of Upper Egypt,[6] was home to the cult of Anubis,[7] a canine-shaped deity.

[13] Cynopolis was destroyed by the viceroy of Nubia Pinehesy during the reign of Ramses XI: the survivors were enslaved.

[6] The diocese, which became obscure under Islam, was nominally restored in 1933 as a Latin Catholic titular bishopric.

[17][dubious – discuss] It was a suffragan bishopric of Oxyrhynchus, the Metropolitan Archbishopric and provincial capital of the Late Roman province of Arcadia Aegypti.

The diocese was nominally restored in 1922 as a Latin Catholic titular bishopric under the name Cynopolis.