Roman Catholic Diocese of Termia

The Diocese of Termia or Diocese of Thermae or Diocese of Thermia (Latin: Dioecesis Thermiensis seu Firminiensis) was a Latin Catholic crusader bishopric located in the Cyclades archipelago in the Aegean Sea ^[1][2], which in 1600 was renamed but .

History

• Established in 1330 as Diocese of Ceo, as part of the Venetian Duchy of Naxos, on island territory in the Cyclades with see on the island of Kea^[2]
• Renamed in 1600 as Diocese of Thermia after its new see when the bishopric moved to the island of Kythnos
• Suppressed in 1650, after the Ottoman conquest
• In 1933 it would be nominally restored as Titular Episcopal See of Cea^[2]

Ordinaries

(all Roman Rite) ^[2]

Suffragan Bishops of Ceo

• Nicolò (? – ?)
• Pietro, Dominican Order (O.P.) (1350.11.17 – ?)
• Princivalle, Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (1370.05.29 – ?)
• Simone da Arezzo, O.F.M. (1376.06.16 – ?)
• Giorgio (? – ?)
• Francesco da Venezia, O.F.M. (1422.07.06 – ?)
• Francesco Barberi (1435? – death 1445?)
• Francesco, O.F.M. (1445.06.09 – 1453.04.30), later Bishop of Naxos (Greek island) (1453.04.30 – ?)
• Giovanni di Sicilia, O.F.M. (1454.11.29 – ?)
• Nicolò (? – ?)
• Pietro (? – ?)
• Gómez (1498.05.24 – ?)
• Giorgio Barozzi (? – ?)
• Giovanni Zotto (1520.02.06 – ?)
• Dionisio Zannettini, O.F.M. (1529.02.08 – 1538.12.11), later Bishop of Milopotamus (also in Greece; 1538.12.11 – 1555)^[3]
• Costantino Giustianiani, O.P. (1540.08.27 – death 1546)
• Giovanni de Gaona, Canons Regular of saint Augustine (C.R.S.A.) (1546.02.19 – ?)
• Giacomo Rocca (1550? – ?)

Suffragan Bishops of Termia

Metropolitan: Archdiocese of Naxos

• Petrus Pitarca, O.F.M. (26 Jun 1617 - 1622 Died)^[4]
• Cristóforo Chrisostome Carletti, O.F.M. (23 May 1622 - 1634 Resigned)^[5]
• Giacomo Della Rocca (25 Sep 1634 - 1644 Died)^[6]
• Giovanni Camponeschi, O.F.M. (19 Dec 1644 - 22 Jun 1654 Confirmed, Bishop of Mottola)

Latin Catholic titular see of Cea

It is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.^[7]

Since the diocese's nominal restoration in 1933, under the name Cea, it has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank, but is vacant since decades:^[2]

• James Thomas O’Dowd (1948.05.22 – 1950.02.05)
• José Clemente Maurer, Redemptorists (C.SS.R.) (1950.03.01 – 1951.10.27), as Auxiliary Bishop of La Paz (Bolivia) (1950.03.01 – 1951.10.27), later Metropolitan Archbishop of Sucre (Bolivia) (1951.10.27 – 1983.11.30), created Cardinal-Priest of SS. Redentore e S. Alfonso in Via Merulana (1967.06.29 – 1990.06.27), President of Episcopal Conference of Bolivia (1968 – 1979)
• Father Wesceslau Nazareno Ponte de Spoleto, Capuchin Friars (O.F.M. Cap.) (1952.04.26 – 1952.06.29)
• Lawrence Bernard Brennan Casey (1953.02.10 – 1966.03.04).

See also

• List of Catholic dioceses in Greece

References

External links

• GCatholic