Maximianopolis was an ancient city in Palestina Secunda. Maximianopolis resumed its ancient name of Rimmon, and is now Roummaneh, nearly four miles to the south of Lajjun

Lajjun

Lajjun was a Palestinian Arab village of nearly 1,300 people located northwest of Jenin. The village along with nearby Umm al-Fahm and seven hamlets, had a total land area of 77,242 dunams or , of which were built-up, while the rest was used for agricultural purposes...

 or Mageddo (see Legio

Legio

Legio was a Roman Catholic titular see in the former Roman province of Palestina Secunda, which was suffragan of ScythopolisIt figures for the first time in a Latin episcopal notitia, dating probably from the eleventh century, where it is given under the name of Legionum, between the Bishoprics of...

). It is also a Catholic titular see

Titular see

A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular bishop", "titular metropolitan", or "titular archbishop"....

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Biblical identification

Its ancient name is Adad-Remmon, according to the Latin Vulgate, and according to the Hebrew original, Hadad-Rimmon. It is found in Zach., xii, 11:

"...there shall be a great lamentation in Jerusalem like the lamentation of Adadremmon in the plain of Mageddon." This is an allusion to the death of Josias, King of Jerusalem, killed by the Pharaoh Nechao in the battle fought near this place.

Bishops

In the time of the so-called Pilgrim of Bordeaux and of St. Jerome, Adad-Remmon already bore the name of Maximianopolis. Three of its ancient bishops are known:

• Paul, in 325;
• Megas, in 518,
• and Domnus, in 536.