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Roman Catholic Diocese of Fez

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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

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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 :

Suppressed circa 1237, its territory being merged into the Diocese of Marocco (at Marrakech, also in present Morocco), to which its incumbent bishop Agnello was appointed.

Titular see

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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:

See also

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