The Diocese of Morocco (or Marrakesh, Spanish ''Marruecos'') was a

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. It is presently a

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, i.e. a former diocese that no longer functions.

History

The diocese was established in 1226 on Moroccan territory split off from Metropolitan

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, presumably its Metropolitan. In 1237? it gained territory from the suppressed

Diocese of Fez The Roman Catholic Diocese of Fez was a short-lived (c. 1225 – 1237) Roman Catholic diocese in Fez, Morocco. History The Diocese of Fez (Fes, Fecen(sis) or Fessen(sis)) was a Latin Rite diocese established around 1225 in the territory of m ...

. On 4 April 1417 it lost territory to establish the

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, in 1500 it was suppressed.

Episcopal ordinaries

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; many European members of Latin missionary congregations * Domingo,

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(O.P.) (1225.10.27 – 1236), later bishop of Baeza * Agnello (1237.06.12 – death ?), previously Bishop of

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(1225 – 1237.06.12) * Lope Fernández Daín,

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(O.F.M.) (1246.10.18 – death 1260?) * Rodrigo Gudal, O.F.M. (1289.12.11 – death 1307?) * Bernardo Murcia, O.F.M. (1307.08.29 – ?) * Alfonso Bonhomme, O.P. (1344.01.10 – death 1353?) * Aymar de Aureliaco (1413.05.10 – 1421.03.21), afterward bishop of

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(Spain) (1421.03.21 – 1443). **

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Vicente Trilles,

(O.F.M.) (1490.12.20 – ?)

Titular see

From its suppression as residential diocese in 1500, it remained a Latin

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, which has had the following incumbents, all of the lowest (Episcopal) rank, but remained vacant for over a century : :BIOS to ELABORATE * Pedro Montemolín (1500–?) * Martín Cabeza de Vaca,

(O.P.) (1508.01.28 – 1534) * Sebastián Obregón,

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(O.S.B.) (1534.12.02 – 1559.01.08) *

Sancho Díaz de Trujillo (1539.09.09 – ?) * Juan Terés (1575.02.04 – 1579.05.22) (later Archbishop) * Miguel Espinosa (1579.10.26 – 1601.10.07) * Tomás Espinosa (1606.09.25 – 1631.06.16) * Valerio Maccioni (1668.09.17 – 1676.09.05) * Piotr Mieszkowski (1678.06.06 – ?) * John Skarbek (later Archbishop) (1696.01.02 – 1713.01.30) * Jan Franciszek Kurdwanowski,

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(S.J.) (1713.05.22 – 1729.12.28) * João de Silva Ferreira (1742.11.26 – 1775.01.19) * John Geddes (1779.09.30 – 1799.02.11) * Carolus von Aulock (1826.03.13 – 1830.05.03) * Bishop-elect Maria Nicolaus Silvester Guillon (1832.12.17 – ?) * Felicissimo Coccino,

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(O.F.M. Cap.) (1855.12.18 – 1878.02.27) * Louis-Callixte Lasserre, O.F.M. Cap. (1881.03.15 – 1903.08.22).

Namesake and successor jurisdiction

In 1469, a diocese again called Marocco (by now synonymous with

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) was established, with episcopal see in

Tangiers Tangier ( ; ; ar, طنجة, Ṭanja) is a city in northwestern Morocco. It is on the Moroccan coast at the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar, where the Mediterranean Sea meets the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Spartel. The town is the capit ...

, 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 The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tanger ( la, Dioecesis Tingitanus) is a Roman Catholic archdiocese in Morocco. Headquartered in Tangier, it is immediately subject to the Holy See. History * 1469: Established as Diocese of Morocco from the Dioc ...

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