A titular see of Crete,
suffragan of Candia.
Certain historians and geographers identify this locality with the
ancient Pantomatrion. As
to the Latin residential see, its first titular, Matthew, is mentioned about 1212,
shortly after the conquest of the island by the Venetians. From 1538 to 1549 the
Diocese of Cheronesus was
joined to it; on the other hand, in 1641, the Diocese of Milopotamos was united
with Rhethymnos and after
the conquest of the island by the Turks in 1670, became merely titular. We know
the names of about twenty residential Latin bishops. Among the schismatic Greeks
the See of Aulopotamos is united with that of Rhethymnos.
The ruins of the city may be seen along the sea-shore at Castel Mylopotamo,
about twelve miles from Rhethymnos.
S. Vailhe, ed.
Transcribed by: Douglas J. Potter
This extract is cited June 2003 from The Catholic Encyclopedia, New Advent online edition URL below.
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