The Diocese of Termia or Diocese of Thermae or Diocese of Thermia (Latin: ''Dioecesis Thermiensis seu Firminiensis'') was a Latin Catholic crusader bishopric located in the Cyclades
archipelago
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in the
Aegean Sea
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diocese
In Ecclesiastical polity, church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, pro ...
was reestablished as a
titular see
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in 1933 under the name Titular Episcopal See of Cea.
History
The diocese in the Cyclades was first established in 1330 as the Diocese of Ceo, part of the Venetian
Duchy of Naxos
The Duchy of the Archipelago ( el, Δουκάτο του Αρχιπελάγους, it, Ducato dell'arcipelago), also known as Duchy of Naxos or Duchy of the Aegean, was a maritime state created by Venetian interests in the Cyclades archipelago ...
, on the island of
Kea
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Kythnos
Kythnos ( el, Κύθνος), commonly called Thermia ( el, Θερμιά), is a Greek island and municipality in the Western Cyclades between Kea and Serifos. It is from the Athenian harbor of Piraeus. The municipality Kythnos is in area and has a ...
, and the diocese was renamed the Diocese of Thermia. Ordinaries of the diocese observed
Roman Rite
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.
In 1650, the Cyclades were conquered by the
Ottoman Empire
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and the diocese's activities were suppressed. The diocese was nominally restored as the Titular Episcopal See of Cea in 1933, and remains listed as such today.''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ), p. 863
Ordinaries
''Suffragan Bishops of Ceo''
*Nicolò (? – ?)
*Pietro,
Dominican Order
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(O.P.) (1350.11.17 – ?)
*Princivalle,
Friars Minor
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Dionisio Zannettini
Dionisio Zannettini (died 1566) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Mylopotamos (1538–1555) and Bishop of Ceos and Thermia (1529–1538).
, O.F.M. (1529.02.08 – 1538.12.11), later Bishop of Milopotamus (also in Greece; 1538.12.11 – 1555)"Bishop Dionisio Zannettini, O.F.M." '' Catholic-Hierarchy.org''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 21, 2016
*Costantino Giustianiani, O.P. (1540.08.27 – death 1546)
*Giovanni de Gaona,
Canons Regular of saint Augustine
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Since the diocese's nominal restoration in 1933, under the name Cea, it has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank, but is vacant since decades:
* James Thomas O’Dowd (1948.05.22 – 1950.02.05)
* José Clemente Maurer, Redemptorists (C.SS.R.) (1950.03.01 – 1951.10.27), as Auxiliary Bishop of
La Paz
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(Bolivia) (1950.03.01 – 1951.10.27), later Metropolitan Archbishop of
Sucre
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(Bolivia) (1951.10.27 – 1983.11.30), created Cardinal-Priest of SS. Redentore e S. Alfonso in Via Merulana (1967.06.29 – 1990.06.27), President of Episcopal Conference of Bolivia (1968 – 1979)
* Father Wesceslau Nazareno Ponte de Spoleto,
Capuchin Friars
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(O.F.M. Cap.) (1952.04.26 – 1952.06.29)
* Lawrence Bernard Brennan Casey (1953.02.10 – 1966.03.04).
See also
*
List of Catholic dioceses in Greece
The Roman Catholic Church in Greece is composed of
* a Latin hierarchy, comprising two ecclesiastical provinces (including four suffragan dioceses and an apostolic vicariate) and two dioceses immediately subject to the Holy See)
* two Eastern C ...