Diocese of Cumania

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The Diocese of Cumania was a Roman Catholic diocese in Hungary.

The diocese was founded in 1227 with its seat in Milcov, serving the Cumans and the Teutonic Knights in the Burzenland. The diocese was destroyed during the course of the Mongol invasion of Europe in 1241.

It was a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Esztergom.

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