Catholic Church

The Catholic church of St. Anthony of Padua can be found in the old town of Rethymnon, behind the old Venetian port. The curch was worked in 1897 and, regardless of its little measurements, the delightful engineering and neo-traditional facing makes it one of the towns' incredible attractions. There has been a Catholic people group in Rethymno for a long time, in reality at the season of the Venetian mastery, it was the See of the Catholic Bishopric.

The first Cathedral of St.Nikolas, was arranged in the Fortezza, up on the slope. Later it was changed over to the mosque of Ibrahim Han. A little church was worked in the Monastery of the Franciscan Capuchins in Mesologghiou road. This cloister was worked by the Capuchin Friars at the season of the Turkish occupation in 1855. The Capuchin Friars, at that point, as now, served the Catholic people group. The nearby Catholics were anxious to manufacture another church it was started and finished inside multiyear in 1897.

The new, greater and noteworthy church of St. Anthony of Padua was worked to serve the regularly expanding number of admirers around then. There are numerous Catholics in and around Rethymnon. The greater part of guests to the congregation is the huge number of vacationers who visit the town between the long periods of March and November. The congregation is open for revere throughout the day, consistently, for anybody wishing to visit the congregation, empowering St. Anthony to wind up a gathering point for individuals of ious nationalities, participated in Faith.