The Roman Catholic Diocese of La Canea or Cidonia (Cydonia ) was a bishopric on
Crete
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, with see at present
Chania
Chania ( el, Χανιά ; vec, La Canea), also spelled Hania, is a city in Greece and the capital of the Chania regional unit. It lies along the north west coast of the island Crete, about west of Rethymno and west of Heraklion.
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History
The Ancient city of
Kydonia
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on
Crete
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(insular
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) had a bishop no later than the second Byzantine rule (961 AD – 1204 AD), when it was given the modern name of
Chania
Chania ( el, Χανιά ; vec, La Canea), also spelled Hania, is a city in Greece and the capital of the Chania regional unit. It lies along the north west coast of the island Crete, about west of Rethymno and west of Heraklion.
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.
The Venetians (and shortly the
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ns) who conquered Crete firmly established a Latin diocese. It was suppressed only in 1700.
Episcopal ordinaries
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;''Suffragan Bishops of Kydonia/Chania''
* Matteo (1300? – ?)
* Giacomo (? – 1311.05.19), later Bishop of
Bisaccia
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(Italy) (1311.05.19 – death 1328)
* Tommaso,
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(O.P.) (1325.02.13 – 1325.06.07), later
Sutri
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(1325.06.07 – ?)
* Filippo (1326.06.25 – ?)
* Francesco (? – ?)
* Antonio (? – ?)
* Reprandino di Santa Lucia,
Friars Minor
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(O.F.M.) (1352.05.25 – ?), previously Bishop of
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(Crete, Greece) (1349.07.08 – 1352.05.25)
* Marco (1364.03.16 – ?)
* Bartolomeo (1369.02.21 – ?)
* Marco Canterano,
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Caorle
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(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
Georgius Perpignani
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of
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Crosier Canons
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) (1642.04.28 – death 1656.02.14)
* Milano Benzio (1642.05.26 – death 1657)
* Giorgio Demedi = Georgius Demedus (1657.11.19 – ?) (1657.11.19 – ?)
Titular see of Cydonia
As soon as the residential diocese was suppressed in 1700 it was turned into a Latin
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under the title of ''Cydonia'' (or ''Cidonia'' in Curiate Italian).
This was itself suppressed in 1933, having had the following incumbents, of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank, ''with a single exception of intermediary (archiepiscopal) rank'':
*
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(1728.09.20 – death 1733.09.28) as emeritate; formerly Bishop of
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Slovenia
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) (1733.09.28 – 1747.10)
* Nicolas Navarre (1735.05.25 – death 1754) as Auxiliary Bishop of
Archdiocese of Lyon
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(France) (1735.05.25 – 1754)
* Henri Hachette des Portes,
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(O. Carm.) (1755.07.21 – 1771.09.23) as Auxiliary Bishop of
Archdiocese of Reims
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(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
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(Poland); later succeeding as Bishop of Płock (1774 – 1785.02.14), finally Metropolitan Archbishop of
Gniezno
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(Poland) (1785.02.14 – 1794.08.12)
* Gaetano Ginanni (1775.07.17 – 1777.12.15) without actual prelature yet; next Bishop of
Foligno
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(Italy) (1777.12.15 – death 1785.03.28)
* François-Philippe Taboureau,
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(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
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(Czechia) (
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1802.03.29 – 1815.03.15), Metropolitan Archbishop of above Praha (Prague, Czechia) ( 814.12.301815.03.15 – death 1830.06.14)
* Tomás Díez Bedoya,
Capuchin Friars Minor
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(O.F.M. Cap.) (1825.12.19 – death 1851.12.26) as Auxiliary Bishop of
Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela
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, Canada) (1852.07.06 – 1860.06.22); next Bishop of
Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Hyacinthe
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(Quebec, Canada) (1860.06.22 – retired 1866.02.04), emeritate as
Titular Bishop
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of Germanicopolis (1867.01.15 – death 1887.11.18)
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* 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),
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of
Quito
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Apparently based on the same Cretan historical diocese, another line of titular bishops was started in 1830 under the name Canea (also Agia in Italian).
It was suppressed in 1922 having had the following incumbents, all of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank :
*
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José Miguel Gordoa y Barrios (1830.10.19 – 1831.02.28), later Bishop of
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Mexico
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) (1831.02.28 – death 1832.07.12)
* Jacobus Grooff (1842.09.20 – death 1852.04.29), as
Apostolic Vicar
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of
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(on
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,
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; now Archdiocese of Jakarta) and first
Apostolic Vicar
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Suriname
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) (1846.12.01 – 1852.04.29); previously last
Apostolic Prefect
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Apostolic Prefect
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of above Dutch Guyana–Suriname) (1826.10.13 – 1842.09.12)
* Charles-Jean Seghers (1878.07.23 – 1878.09.28) between prelatures; later
Titular Archbishop
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(1878.09.18 – 1880.12.18), later succeeded as Metropolitan Archbishop of Oregon City (1880.12.18 – 1884.03.09) and
Archbishop-Bishop
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of Vancouver
Vancouver Island
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(BC,
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) (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
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Ireland
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) (1883.10.03 – 1920.03.29)
* Eduard Graf O’Rourke (1920.04.10 – 1922.04.21), in between prelature; previously Bishop of
Riga
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Latvia
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) (1918.09.29 – 1920.04.10); later Titular Bishop of
Pergamum
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(1922.12.21 – 1925.12.30) as
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, now
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) (1922.04.21 – 1925.12.30), Bishop of above Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) (1925.12.30 – 1938.06.13), emeritate as Titular Bishop of
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Catholic Church in Greece
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Chania
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