Roman Catholic Diocese of La Canea
The Roman Catholic Diocese of La Canea or Cidonia was a bishopric on Crete, with see at present Chania, and afterward was twice a Latin titular see.
History
The Ancient city of Kydonia on Crete had a bishop no later than the second Byzantine rule, when it was given the modern name of Chania.The Venetians who conquered Crete firmly established a Latin diocese. It was suppressed only in 1700.
Episcopal ordinaries
;Suffragan Bishops of Kydonia/Chania
- Matteo
- Giacomo, later Bishop of Bisaccia
- Tommaso, Dominican Order, later Sutri
- Filippo
- Francesco
- Antonio
- Reprandino di Santa Lucia, Friars Minor, previously Bishop of Ario
- Marco
- Bartolomeo
- Marco Canterano, Carmelites
- Caterino Barbo, O.F.M.
- Andrea Bon, previously Bishop of Caorle and Bishop of Pedena
- Paolo Barozzi
- Luca Grimani di Candia, previously Bishop of Retimo
- Michele di Candia, O.P.
- Raimondo
- Antonio Ursi
- Paolo
- Bartolomeo Merula
- Francesco de Molendina, O.F.M.
- Agostino Donà
- Filippo Donà
- Alvise Dolfin
- Domenico Bollani, O.P.
- Andrea Corbelli
- Giovanni Alberto de Garzonibus
- Giorgio alias Georgius Perpignani, previously Bishop of Tinos–Mykonos and Apostolic Administrator of Andros
- Bernardo Florio, Crosier Canons, later Metropolitan Archbishop of Zadar
- Milano Benzio
- Giorgio Demedi = Georgius Demedus
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.This was itself suppressed in 1933, having had the following incumbents, of the fitting Episcopal rank, with a single exception of intermediary rank:
- Agostino Bruti as emeritate; formerly Bishop of Koper
- Nicolas Navarre as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Lyon
- Henri Hachette des Portes, Carmelites as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Reims ; next Bishop of Glandèves
- Michał Jerzy Poniatowski, as Coadiutor Bishop of Płock ; later succeeding as Bishop of Płock, finally Metropolitan Archbishop of Gniezno
- Gaetano Ginanni without actual prelature yet; next Bishop of Foligno
- François-Philippe Taboureau, Benedictine Order, without actual prelature
- Václav von Chlumčansky as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Praha ; later Bishop of Litoměřice, Metropolitan Archbishop of above Praha
- Tomás Díez Bedoya, Capuchin Friars Minor as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela
- Joseph Larocque as Coadjutor Bishop of Montréal ; next Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Hyacinthe, emeritate as Titular Bishop of Germanicopolis
- George Butler Titular Archbishop José María de Jesús Yerovi Pintado, O.F.M., Coadjutor Archbishop of Quito, succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Quito
- Giovanni Battista Bagala Blasini
- Francesco Vitagliano
- Charles-Jacques Mouard, O.F.M. Cap.
- Angelus Boccamazzi
- Teofilo Massucci, O.F.M.
- Giuseppe Candido
- Wladyslaw Bandurski.
Titular see of Canea
Apparently based on the same Cretan historical diocese, another line of titular bishops was started in 1830 under the name Canea.It was suppressed in 1922 having had the following incumbents, all of the fitting Episcopal rank :
- Bishop-elect José Miguel Gordoa y Barrios, later Bishop of Guadalajara
- Jacobus Grooff, as Apostolic Vicar of Batavia and first Apostolic Vicar of Dutch Guyana–Suriname
- Charles-Jean Seghers between prelatures; later Titular Archbishop of Hemesa as Coadjutor Archbishop of Oregon City, later succeeded as Metropolitan Archbishop of Oregon City and Archbishop-Bishop of Vancouver Vancouver Island ; previously Bishop of above Vancouver Island
- Nicolas Donnelly, while Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin
- Eduard Graf O’Rourke, in between prelature; previously Bishop of Riga ; later Titular Bishop of Pergamum as Apostolic Administrator of Gdańsk, Bishop of above Danzig, emeritate as Titular Bishop of Sophene.