The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rabat ( la, Archidioecesis Rabatensis) is an ecclesiastical territory or

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of the

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. It was erected as the Apostolic Vicariate of

Rabat Rabat (, also , ; ar, الرِّبَاط, er-Ribât; ber, ⵕⵕⴱⴰⵟ, ṛṛbaṭ) is the capital city of Morocco and the country's seventh largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) and a metropolitan populatio ...

on July 2, 1923, by

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, and promoted to the rank of an

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on September 14, 1955. La Cathédrale de Rabat

The archdiocese's mother church and seat of its archbishop is St. Peter's Cathedral, Rabat. Cristóbal López Romero, S.D.B. was appointed as the Archbishop of Rabat on December 29, 2017.

Bishops

Ordinaries

Vicars Apostolic of Rabat

# Victor Colomban Dreyer, O.F.M Cap. (1923–1927), appointed Vicar Apostolic of Canale di Suez , Egypt # Henri Vielle, O.F.M. (1927–1946) # Louis Lefèbvre, O.F.M. (1947–1955 ''see below'')

Archbishops of Rabat

# Louis Lefèbvre, O.F.M. (''see above'' 1955–1968) # Jean Chabbert, O.F.M. (1968–1982), appointed Archbishop (personal title) of Perpignan-Elne, France # Hubert Michon (1983–2001) # Vincent Landel, S.C.J. (2001–2017) # Cristóbal López Romero,

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(2017– present ) (Cardinal in 2019)

Coadjutor Archbishops

* Jean-Berchmans-Marcel-Yves-Marie-Bernard Chabbert, O.F.M. (1967-1968) * Vincent Louis Marie Landel, S.C.I. di Béth. (1999-2001)

Auxiliary Bishop

* Pierre-Jean-Marie-Louis Peurois, O.F.M. (1936-1946), resigned; (1957?-1959)

External links

Official website
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