List of Primates of the Archdiocese of Crete
This is a list of primates of the Archdiocese of Crete since the end of the seventeenth century after the island had been occupied by the Ottoman Turks and came under the jurisdiction of the Church of Constantinople:
Metropolitans
- Arsenios II (1699-1701)
- Ioasaph (1702-1710)
- Constantine (1711-1716) (1st time)
- Gerasimos I (1716-1719)
- Constantine (1719-1722) (2nd time)
- Daniil (1722-1725)
- Gerasimos II (1725-1755)
- Gerasimuo III (1756-1769)
- Zacharias (1769-1786)
- Maximos (1786-1800)
- Gerasimus IV (1800- July 6, 1821)
- Vacant (1821 - 1823)
- Methodios (1823)
- Kallinikos III (April 1823 - March 1830)
- Meletios I (February 1831 - January 1839)
- Porphyrios (August 1839 - September 21, 1839)
- Kallinikos IV (October 1839 - February 24, 1842)
- Kallinikos V (March 13, 1842 - 1843)
- Chrysanthos (December 1843 - September 5, 1850)
- Sophronios I (September 5, 1850 - December 1850)
- Dionysios I (January 1851 - September 9, 1856)
- Ioannikios (September 9, 1856 - 1858)
- Dionysios II (August 7, 1858 - November 28, 1868)
- Meletios II (November 28, 1868 - December 5, 1874) (1st time)
- Sophronios II (December 5, 1874 - June 21, 1877)
- Meletios II (June 21, 1877 - August 25, 1882) (2nd time)
- Timothy I (October 2, 1882 - March 2, 1897)
- Evmenios II (May 24, 1898 - April 14, 1920)
- Titus II (March 7, 1922 - April 25, 1933)
- Timothy II (July 22, 1933 - January 1941)
- Basil V (Markakis) (April 8, 1941 - January 1950)
- Eugene (Psalidakis) (May 23, 1950 - February 28, 1967)
Archbishops
- Eugene (Psalidakis) (February 28, 1967 - February 7, 1978)
- Timothy III (Papoutsakis) (March 10, 1978 - July 26, 2006)
- Irinios (Athanasiadis) (August 30, 2006 - Present)