Roman Catholic Diocese of Crete

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Diocese of Crete

Dioecesis Candiensis

Επισκοπή Κρήτης
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Interior of Assumption Cathedral
Location
Country Greece
Ecclesiastical province Naxos, Andros, Tinos and Mykonos
Metropolitan Naxos, Andros, Tinos and Mykonos
Statistics
Area8,393 km2 (3,241 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2013)
512,000
5,000 (1%)
Information
Rite Latin Rite
Established1213
(As Archdiocese of Candia)
28 August 1874
(As Diocese of Crete)
Cathedral Cathedral of the Assumption, Chania
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Bishop Sede Vacante
Apostolic Administrator Petros Stefanou

The Diocese of Crete (Latin : Dioecesis Candiensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church located on the island of Crete in the ecclesiastical province of Naxos, Andros, Tinos and Mykonos in Greece.

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History

Roman Catholic presence on the island of Crete dates to its conquest by the Republic of Venice in the years after the Fourth Crusade (1204), and its establishment as a Venetian colony in 1212. Immediately after that, the first Latin Rite Archbishop of Crete was appointed, with a succession of holders until the Ottoman conquest of the island in the Cretan War (1645–1669). Thereafter the see remained vacant, until re-established as a simple bishopric on 28 August 1874, initially a suffragan of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of İzmir, but today a suffragan of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Naxos, Andros, Tinos and Mykonos.

Present day Catholic Churches in Heraklion (Saint John The Baptist), Chania, Rethymnon (St. Antony on Padua)

Bishops

Venetian period

See vacant from 1669.

Modern period

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References

  1. Louise Buenger Robbert, "Venetian Participation in the Crusade of Damietta", Studi veneziani, Ser. NS, vol. 30 (1995), pp. 15–34, at 25. The archbishop arrived after the siege of Damietta along with Archbishop Henry of Milan and probably brought with him a small Venetian contingent.

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