Diocese of Morocco

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The Diocese of Morocco (or Marrakesh, Spanish Marruecos) was a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church. It is presently a Latin Catholic titular see, i.e. a former diocese that no longer functions.

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History

The diocese was established in 1226 on Moroccan territory split off from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Toledo, presumably its Metropolitan. In 1237? it gained territory from the suppressed Diocese of Fez.

On 4 April 1417 it lost territory to establish the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ceuta, in 1500 it was suppressed.

Episcopal ordinaries

(incomplete?) – all Latin rite; many European members of Latin missionary congregations

Titular see

From its suppression as residential diocese in 1500, it remained a Latin titular bishopric, which has had the following incumbents, all of the lowest (Episcopal) rank, but remained vacant for over a century: [1]

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Namesake and successor jurisdiction

In 1469, a diocese again called Marocco (by now synonymous with Morocco) was established, with episcopal see in Tangiers, which after suppression, restoration as Apostolic Prefecture of Marocco (again alias Marruecos) and promotion to Apostolic Vicariate of Marocco became in 1956 the present, still exempt Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tanger.

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References

  1. http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t3405.htm GigaCatholic
  2. Fita Colomé, Fidel (2012). Dos obispos de Marruecos. Linkgua digital. pp. 34–38. ISBN   9788498977516.[ permanent dead link ]