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Roman Catholic titular see
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.
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.
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]
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 .
List of bishops
Resident
Domingo,
OP (1225.10.27 – 1236), later bishop of
Baeza
Agnello (1237.06.12 – death ?), previously Bishop of
Fez (1225 – 1237.06.12)
Lope Fernández Daín,
OFM (1246.10.18 – death 1260?)
Rodrigo Gudal, OFM (1289.12.11 – death 1307?)
Bernardo Murcia, OFM (1307.08.29 – ?)
Alfonso Bonhomme , OP (1344.01.10 – death 1353?)
Aymar de Aureliaco (1413.05.10 – 1421.03.21), afterward bishop of
Ceuta (Spain) (1421.03.21 – 1443),
Coadjutor :
Bishop-elect Vicente Trilles, OFM (1490.12.20 – ?)
Titular
Pedro Montemolín (1500–?)
[2]
Martín Cabeza de Vaca ,
OP (1508.01.28 – 1534)
Sebastián Obregón ,
OSB (1534.12.02 – 1559.01.08)
Bishop-elect 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,
OFMCap (1855.12.18 – 1878.02.27)
Louis-Callixte Lasserre, OFMCap (1881.03.15 – 1903.08.22)
See also
References
Sources and external links