Archdiocese of Naxos, Tinos, Andros and Mykonos


The Archdiocese of Naxos, Tinos, Andros, and Mykonos is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic church in insular Greece.
Its cathedral archiepiscopal see is the cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary, in the village of Xinara, on Tinos, but is also has a Co-Cathedral of the Presentation of the Lord, in Naxos town.
The ecclesiastical territory comprises most of the Aegean islands in Greece, including, but not limited to Naxos, Andros, Tinos and Mykonos.
Josif Printezis was appointed bishop in January 2021, and will be consecrated and installed in March.

History

Originally erected as the Diocese of Naxos in the 13th century, the Latin bishopric was promoted to the rank of Metropolitan Archdiocese of Naxos in 1522, after the fall of Rhodes, when the Archiepiscopal see for its Knights Hospitallers' crusader state was in fact moved from there.
In 1538, Naxos fell to the Ottoman naval commander Hayreddin Barbarossa. In response, Pope Paul III assembled a ’’Holy League’’, comprising the Papacy, Spain, the Republic of Genoa, the Republic of Venice and the Knights of Malta, to confront Barbarossa but were defeated at the Battle of Preveza.
On June 3, 1919, the Archdiocese of Naxos was united with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tinos and Mykonos to form the present Archdiocese of Naxos, Tinos, Andros and Mykonos, whose new name also includes Andros.
In 1964, the parish charitable funds and the various Catholic associations and brotherhoods of the diocese were brought together in a single organisation, as an attempt to unify the efforts. This organisation had the name To spíti tou ftochoú and helped families through donations and loans, promoting education, and supporting the disabled, widows, and orphans. It was renamed Caritas Naxos-Tinos in the 1980s and expanded its goals, and became a member of Caritas Hellas in 1981. In 1994, it was registered as an NGO. Caritas Naxos-Tinos is the official social arm of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Naxos, Tinos, Andros and Mykonos.

Province

The Metropolitan's ecclesiastical province comprises his own archdiocese and the following suffragan dioceses :

Diocese of Naxos

Erected: 13th Century

Latin Name: Naxiensis
Elevated: 1522
Latin Name: Naxiensis
  • Giacomo Coppi
  • Giuseppe de Montanaris
  • Sebastiano Leccavella, O.P.
  • Antonio Giustiniani, O.P.
  • Francesco Pisani
  • Domenico di Grammatica
  • Dionisio Reudio, O.F.M.
  • Angelo Gozzadini
  • Marco Antonio Quirino, O.Cruc.
  • Raffaele Schiattini
  • Bartolomeo Polla
  • Pietro Martire Giustiniani, O.P.
  • Antonio Giustiniani
  • Giovanni Francesco Bossi, O.F.M. Conv.
  • Antonio Maturi, O.F.M.
  • Pietro Martire de Stefani, O.P.
  • Giovanni Battista Crispi
  • Godefroid Philippe Joseph de La Porte, O.F.M. Cap.
  • Binkentios Coressi
  • Andrea Veggetti
  • Niccola Candoni
  • Domenico Castelli, O.P.
  • François Cuculla
  • Lorenzo Bergeretti
  • Giuseppe Zaffino
  • Filippo Camassei
  • Leonard Brindisi

    Archdiocese of Naxos, Andros, Tinos and Mykonos

United: 3 June 1919 with the Diocese of Andros, the Diocese of Mykonos, and the Diocese of Tinos
Latin Name: Naxiensis, Andrensis, Tinensis, et Myconensis
  • Leonard Brindisi
  • Matteo Vido
  • Alessandro Guidati
  • Joannis Baptist Filippucci
  • Ioannis Perris
  • Nikólaos Printesis