Hurbayt

Hurbayt (هربيط) is a town in Sharqia Governorate of Egypt.

It's an ancient town referred to in a stele of the 7th century BC, and described by Herodotus, Strabo, and Pliny.

It served as the capital of the nome of Pharbaethites/Lapt in Lower Egypt.

Etymology
The town's Arabic name comes from Coptic Pharbait (ⲫⲁⲣⲃⲁⲓⲧ), which in turn is derived from Pr-Ḥrw-mr.ty. It was also known as Sheten (Štꜣn).

In Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt it was known as Pharbaithos (Φάρβαιθος) or Pharbaethus. This name is reproduced under the form Karbeuthos in George of Cyprus.

Ecclesiastical history
The original diocese was a suffragan of Leontopolis, in Augustamnica Secunda, Egypt.

There is a record of Bishop Arbetion at Nicæa in 325, and Bishop Theodorus in 1086, but it is possible that the latter was bishop of another Pharbætus situated further to the west, and which according to Vansleb was equally a Coptic see. John of Nikiu relates that under the Emperor Phocas (602-10) the clerics of the province killed the Greek governor Theophilus.

It remains a Roman Catholic titular see under the name Pharbaetus.