Diocese of Morocco

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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-elect
    Vicente 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-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)

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

Sources and external links