Roman Catholic Diocese of La Canea

35°30′54″N 24°01′01″E / 35.515°N 24.017°E / 35.515; 24.017 The Roman Catholic Diocese of La Canea or Cidonia (Cydonia /sɪˈdoʊniə/) was a bishopric on Crete, with see at present Chania, and afterward was twice a Latin titular see.^[1][2]

History

The Ancient city of Kydonia on Crete (insular Greece) had a bishop no later than the second Byzantine rule (961 AD – 1204 AD), when it was given the modern name of Chania.

The Venetians (and shortly the Genoans) who conquered Crete firmly established a Latin diocese. It was suppressed only in 1700.

Episcopal ordinaries

(incomplete? - lacking first century; all Roman Rite)

Suffragan Bishops of Kydonia/Chania

• Matteo (1300? – ?)
• Giacomo (? – 1311.05.19), later Bishop of Bisaccia (Italy) (1311.05.19 – death 1328)
• Tommaso,
  Sutri
  (1325.06.07 – ?)
• Filippo (1326.06.25 – ?)
• Francesco (? – ?)
• Antonio (? – ?)
• Reprandino di Santa Lucia,
  Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (1352.05.25 – ?), previously Bishop of Ario
  (Crete, Greece) (1349.07.08 – 1352.05.25)
• Marco (1364.03.16 – ?)
• Bartolomeo (1369.02.21 – ?)
• Marco Canterano, Carmelites (O. Carm.) (1389.07.12 – ?)
• Caterino Barbo, O.F.M. (1390.12.01 – ?)
• Andrea Bon (1396.04.12 – ?), previously Bishop of Caorle (northeastern Italy) (1382 – 1394.02.16) and Bishop of Pedena (1394.02.16 – 1396.04.12)
• Paolo Barozzi (1411.03.27 – ?)
• Luca Grimani di Candia (1418.05.04 – ?), previously Bishop of
  Retimo
  (1409.11.13 – 1418.05.04)
• Michele di Candia, O.P. (1451.10.01 – death 1479)
• Raimondo (? – ?)
• Antonio Ursi (1481 – death 1511)
• Paolo (1481.03.19 – ?)
• Bartolomeo Merula (1511.10.01 – ?)
• Francesco de Molendina, O.F.M. (1523.07.24 – ?)
• Agostino Donà (1525 – 1535)
• Filippo Donà (1536.01.19 – 1565)
• Alvise Dolfin (1565.10.26 – death 1587.12.12)
• Domenico Bollani (or Bolano), O.P. (1588.01.29 – death 1613)
• Andrea Corbelli (1613.02.11 – death 1614)
• Giovanni Alberto de Garzonibus (1614.02.17 – death 1619)
• Giorgio alias
  Apostolic Administrator of Andros
  (insular Greece) (1611.05.13 – 1616.08.03)
• Crosier Canons (O.Cruc.) (1621.06.07 – 1642.04.28), later Metropolitan Archbishop of Zadar (Croatia
  ) (1642.04.28 – death 1656.02.14)
• Milano Benzio (1642.05.26 – death 1657)
• Giorgio Demedi = Georgius Demedus (1657.11.19 – ?) (1657.11.19 – ?)

• Agostino Bruti (1728.09.20 – death 1733.09.28) as emeritate; formerly Bishop of Koper (Slovenia
  ) (1733.09.28 – 1747.10)
• Nicolas Navarre (1735.05.25 – death 1754) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Lyon (France) (1735.05.25 – 1754)
• Henri Hachette des Portes, Carmelites (O. Carm.) (1755.07.21 – 1771.09.23) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Reims (France) (1755.07.21 – 1771.09.23); next Bishop of Glandèves (1771.09.23 – death 1798)
• Michał Jerzy Poniatowski (1773.07.12 – 1785.02.14), as
  Coadiutor Bishop of Płock (Poland); later succeeding as Bishop of Płock (1774 – 1785.02.14), finally Metropolitan Archbishop of Gniezno
  (Poland) (1785.02.14 – 1794.08.12)
• Gaetano Ginanni (1775.07.17 – 1777.12.15) without actual prelature yet; next Bishop of Foligno (Italy) (1777.12.15 – death 1785.03.28)
• François-Philippe Taboureau,
  Benedictine Order
  (O.S.B.) (1778.06.01 – ? death?), without actual prelature
• Václav von Chlumčansky (1795.06.01 – 1802.03.29) as Auxiliary Bishop of
  Archdiocese of Praha (Prague in Bohemia, Czechia) (1795.06.01 – 1802.03.29); later Bishop of Litoměřice
  (Czechia) ([1801.10.15] 1802.03.29 – 1815.03.15), Metropolitan Archbishop of above Praha (Prague, Czechia) ([1814.12.30] 1815.03.15 – death 1830.06.14)
• Tomás Díez Bedoya,
  Capuchin Friars Minor (O.F.M. Cap.) (1825.12.19 – death 1851.12.26) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela
  (Spain) (1825.12.19 – 1851.12.26)
• Joseph Larocque (1852.07.06 – 1860.06.22) as Coadjutor Bishop of Montréal (
  Germanicopolis
  (1867.01.15 – death 1887.11.18)

• George Butler (1861.06.13 – 1864.06.04)
• Titular Archbishop José María de Jesús Yerovi Pintado, O.F.M. (1865.09.25 – 1867.04.02),
  Coadjutor Archbishop of Quito
  (Ecuador) (1865.09.25 – 1867.04.02), succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Quito (1867.04.02 – 1867.06.20)
• Giovanni Battista Bagala Blasini (1868.05.12 – 1876.04.03)
• Francesco Vitagliano (1876.06.26 – 1882.03.30)
• Charles-Jacques Mouard, O.F.M. Cap. (1882.09.15 – 1888.08.08)
• Angelus Boccamazzi (1890.06.23 – 1896)
• Teofilo Massucci, O.F.M. (1896.08.24 – 1900.05.10)
• Giuseppe Candido (1901.02.04 – 1906.07.04)
• Wladyslaw Bandurski (1906.09.26 – 1932.03.06).

• Bishop-elect José Miguel Gordoa y Barrios (1830.10.19 – 1831.02.28), later Bishop of Guadalajara (Mexico
  ) (1831.02.28 – death 1832.07.12)
• Jacobus Grooff (1842.09.20 – death 1852.04.29), as
  Apostolic Prefect of above Dutch Guyana–Suriname
  ) (1826.10.13 – 1842.09.12)
• Charles-Jean Seghers (1878.07.23 – 1878.09.28) between prelatures; later
  Vancouver Island (BC, Canada
  ) (1884.03.09 – 1886.11.28); previously Bishop of above Vancouver Island (1873.03.11 – 1878.09.18)
• Nicolas Donnelly (1883.10.03 – death 1920.03.29), while Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin (Ireland) (1883.10.03 – 1920.03.29)
• Eduard Graf O’Rourke (1920.04.10 – 1922.04.21), in between prelature; previously Bishop of
  Gdańsk (Danzig, then German Empire, now Poland) (1922.04.21 – 1925.12.30), Bishop of above Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) (1925.12.30 – 1938.06.13), emeritate as Titular Bishop of Sophene
  (1938.06.13 – death 1943.06.27).

• List of Catholic dioceses in Greece
• Catholic Church in Greece

References

Sources and external links

• GigaCatholic - Cydonia, with residential and titular incumbent biography links
• Giga Catholic - La Canea, with residential and titular incumbent biography links
• Catholic Hierarchy Canea ^{[self-published]}
• Catholic Hierarchy Canea (Cydonia) ^{[self-published]}