Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Naxos, Tinos, Andros and Mykonos


The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Naxos, Tinos, Andros, and Mykonos 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 Naxos town.
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, 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.

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
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