Diocese of Crete

The Diocese of Crete is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church located on the island of Crete in the ecclesiastical province of Roman Catholic [Archdiocese of Naxos, Andros, Tinos and Mykonos|Naxos, Andros, Tinos and Mykonos] in Greece.

History

Roman Catholic presence on the island of Crete dates to its conquest by the Republic of Venice in the years after the Fourth Crusade, and its establishment as a Venetian colony in 1212. Immediately after that, the first Latin Rite Archbishop of Crete was appointed, with a succession of holders until the Ottoman conquest of the island in the Cretan War (1645–1669). Thereafter the see remained vacant, until re-established as a simple bishopric on 28 August 1874, initially a suffragan of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of İzmir, but today a suffragan of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Naxos, Andros, Tinos and Mykonos.
Present day Catholic Churches in Heraklion, Chania, Rethymnon

See vacant from 1669.