Roman Catholic Diocese of Fez

The Diocese of Fez was a short-lived (c. 1225 – 1237) was a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or diocese of the Catholic Church in Fez, Morocco.

History

The Diocese of Fez (Fes, Fecen(sis) or Fessen(sis)) was a Latin Church diocese established around 1225 in the territory of modern Morocco, without direct predecessor.

Its only resident incumbent Ordinary was :

• Bishop Agnello (1225 – 1237.06.12), later Bishop of
  Marocco (Marrakech)
  (1237.06.12 – ?)

Suppressed circa 1237, its territory being merged into the

Titular see

Circa 1496 the diocese was nominally restored as a Latin titular see, though it was however again suppressed even as titular see in 1730, having had the following incumbents, all of the fitting episcopal rank:

• Teotónio de Bragança,
  Coadjutor Archbishop of Évora (Portugal
  ) (1578.06.28 – 1578.12.07); succeeded as Metropolitan Archbishop of Évora (1578.12.07 – death 1602.07.24)
• Jorge Queimado,
  Auxiliary Bishop of Braga
  (Portugal) (1599.02.01 – ?)
• Manuel dos Anjos, Observant?
  Friars Minor (O.F.M. Obs.) (1621.11.15 – death 1634.10.28) as Auxiliary Bishop of above Évora
  (Portugal) (1621.11.15 – 1634.10.28)
• Gabriel ab Annuntiatione, Secular Canons of Saint John (C.R.S.J.E.) (1640.03.26 – death 1644.03.18) as Auxiliary Bishop of above Évora (Portugal) (1640.03.26 – 1644.03.18)
• Stanislaus Giannotti,
  Canons Regular of Saint Augustine (C.R.S.A.) (1659.12.01 – death 1681) as Auxiliary Bishop of then Archdiocese of Kyiv–Černihiv (now Kyïv–Žytomyr, Ukraine
  ) (1659.12.01 – 1681)

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