Diocese of Morocco
The Diocese of Morocco (or Marrakesh, Spanish Marruecos) was 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
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
- 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 Bishop-electVicente Trilles, OFM (1490.12.20 – ?)
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]
- BIOS to ELABORATE
- Pedro Montemolín (1500–?)[2]
- OP(1508.01.28 – 1534)
- Sebastián Obregón, OSB (1534.12.02 – 1559.01.08)
- Bishop-electSancho 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)
Namesake and successor jurisdiction
In 1469, a diocese again called Marocco (by now synonymous with
Apostolic Vicariate of Marocco became in 1956 the present, still exempt Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tanger
.
See also
- List of Catholic dioceses in Morocco, Mauretania and Western Sahara
References
- ^ http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t3405.htm GigaCatholic
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