Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Naxos, Tinos, Andros and Mykonos

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Naxos, Tinos, Andros, and Mykonos (Latin: Archidioecesis Naxiensis, Andrensis, Tinensis, et Myconensis) is an Archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman 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 Chora.

The ecclesiastical territory comprises most of the Aegean islands in Greece, including, but not limited to Naxos, Andros, Tinos and Mykonos.

The current Archbishop is Nikólaos Printesis, who was appointed in 1993.

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 (Ottoman conquest), when the Archiepiscopal see for its Knights Hospitallers' crusader state was in fact moved from there.

On June 3, 1919, the Archdiocese of Naxos was united with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tinos and Mykonos (which in 1824 had absorbed the suppressed Roman Catholic Diocese of Andros, without adopting its title) to form the present Archdiocese of Naxos, Tinos, Andros and Mykonos, whose new name also includes Andros.

Province

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

• Roman Catholic Diocese of Chios
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Crete
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Santorini
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Syros and Milos.

Episcopal Ordinaries

(all Roman Rite)

Suffragan Bishops of Naxos

• Giorgio (1252.11.12 – ?)
• Bernardino (1330.10.19 – 1332.05.13), later Bishop of Sorres (1332.05.13 – ?)
• Daniele (? – death 1345)
• Andrea, Carmelites (O. Carm.) (1349.01.19 – 1356.05.29), later Bishop of Bosa (Italy) (1356.05.29 – 1360)
• Tommaso, Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (1357.06.30 – ?)
• Stefano (? – 1377.09.18), later (Metropolitan) Titular Archbishop of Cæsarea in Palæstina (1377.09.18 – ?)
• Pantaleo Dioscoro di Nasso [whichbis Italian for 'of Naxos'] (1418.05.02 – ?), previously Bishop of Syros (Greece) (1410.02.12 – 1418.05.02)
• Leonardo, Augustinian Order (O.E.S.A.) (1446.06.03 – ?)
• Francesco, O.F.M. (1453.04.30 – ?)
• Antonio (1458.12.29 – ?)
• Nicola (1460.08.22 – ?)
• Nicola di Gaeta (1479.02.13 – ?), previously Bishop of Minervino (1492.01.23 – 1497.05.15), Bishop of Acerra (Italy) (1497.05.15 – 1504.04.15)
• Nicolás (Pedro) de Noya, Dominican Order (O.P.) † ( 1505 Appointed - 1515 Died)
• Paolo Zabarella, O.E.S.A. (1515 – ?)
• Filippo di Vegis (1519.09.15 – ?)

Metropolitan Archbishops of Naxos

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• Pietro Martire Giustiniani, O.P. † (10 Dec 1691 Appointed - 10 May 1700 Appointed, Archbishop (Personal Title) of Tinos)
• Binkentios Coressi † (1 Oct 1800 Appointed - 12 Oct 1814 Appointed, Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Constantinople)
• Andrea Veggetti † (8 Mar 1816 Appointed - 15 Nov 1838 Died)
• Lorenzo Bergeretti † (24 Mar 1864 Succeeded - )
• Giuseppe Zaffino † (30 Jul 1875 Appointed - )
• Filippo Camassei † (18 Mar 1904 Appointed - 6 Dec 1906 Appointed, Patriarch of Gerusalemme {Jerusalem})

Metropolitan Archbishops of Naxos, Andros, Tinos and Mykonos

• Leonard Brindisi † (30 Mar 1909 Appointed - 3 Jul 1919 Appointed, Archbishop of Corfu, Zakynthos and Cefalonia)
• Matteo Vido † (3 Jul 1919 Appointed - 18 Sep 1924 Died)
• Alessandro Guidati † (15 Jul 1929 Appointed - 22 Feb 1947 Retired)
• Joannis Baptist Filippucci (Filippoussis) † (29 May 1947 Appointed - 6 Nov 1959 Died)
• Ioannis Perris † (24 Oct 1960 Appointed - 29 Apr 1993 Retired)
• Nikólaos Printesis (29 Apr 1993 Appointed - )

References

• http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dnaxo.html

Sources and External links

• GCatholic.org, with incumbent biography links

Coordinates: 37°34′32″N 25°09′49″E / 37.5756°N 25.1635°E / 37.5756; 25.1635