The Diocese of Morocco (or Marrakesh, Spanish ''Marruecos'') was a Christian diocese. It is presently a

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

Episcopal ordinaries

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* Agnello (1237.06.12 – death ?), previously Bishop of

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(1225 – 1237.06.12) * Lope Fernández Daín, Friars Minor (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 Ceuta (Spain) (1421.03.21 – 1443). **

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Vicente Trilles, Friars Minor (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, Dominican Order (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, Jesuits (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 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

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