Diocese of Morocco


The Diocese of Morocco 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 rank, but remained vacant for over a century:
In 1469, a diocese again called Marocco was established, with episcopal see in Tangiers, which after suppression, restoration as Apostolic Prefecture of Marocco and promotion to Apostolic Vicariate of Marocco became in 1956 the present, still exempt Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tanger.

List of bishops

Resident

Titular