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,
Dominican Order (O.P.) (1325.02.13 – 1325.06.07), later
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 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
titular bishopric 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:
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)
Joseph Larocque (1852.07.06 – 1860.06.22) as Coadjutor Bishop of Montréal (
Quebec, Canada) (1852.07.06 – 1860.06.22); next Bishop of
Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Hyacinthe (Quebec, Canada) (1860.06.22 – retired 1866.02.04), emeritate as
Titular Bishop of
Germanicopolis (1867.01.15 – death 1887.11.18)
BIOs TO BE ELABORATED
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)
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 :
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)
Charles-Jean Seghers (1878.07.23 – 1878.09.28) between prelatures; later
Titular Archbishop of
Hemesa (1878.09.28 – 1880.12.12) as
Coadjutor Archbishop of
Oregon City (1878.09.18 – 1880.12.18), later succeeded as Metropolitan Archbishop of Oregon City (1880.12.18 – 1884.03.09) and
Archbishop-Bishop of Vancouver
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
Riga (
Latvia) (1918.09.29 – 1920.04.10); later Titular Bishop of
Pergamum (1922.12.21 – 1925.12.30) as
Apostolic Administrator 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).