Archdiocese of Tangier

	Archdiocese of Tangier
Basic data
Country	Morocco
Ecclesiastical province	Immediate
Diocesan bishop	Sedis vacancy
Emeritus diocesan bishop	Santiago Agrelo Martínez OFM
surface	28,000 km²
Parishes	7 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Residents	4,325,500 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Catholics	3,000 (2017 / AP 2018 )
proportion of	0.1%
Religious priest	15 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Catholics per priest	200
Friars	21 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Religious sisters	77 (2017 / AP 2018 )
rite	Roman rite
Liturgical language	Arabic
cathedral	Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption
address	Rue Sidi Bouabid 55 ; B.P. 2116 [Socco] ; 90000 Tangier, Maroc

Tangier Cathedral

The Archdiocese of Tangiers ( lat. : Archidioecesis Tingitana ) is in Morocco situated Roman Catholic archdiocese , based in Tangier . The 28,000 km² archbishopric essentially comprises the former protectorate area of Spain in Morocco .

history

Already around the year 325 a diocese of Tingis is proven, which later perished like all North African dioceses due to the onslaught of Islam. A Spanish Dominican named Alfonsus Bonihominis has come down to us as bishop from 1344 . In 1469 the diocese of Morocco or Tangier was founded from the Spanish diocese of Ceuta , which was reunited with Ceuta in 1570.

The Archdiocese of Tangier was re-established as the Apostolic Prefecture for Morocco in Tangier from the Diocese of Ceuta on November 28, 1630 , rose to the Apostolic Vicariate on April 14, 1908 , and gave up parts of its territory on July 2, 1923 to establish the Vicariate Apostolic Rabat and was finally raised to an immediate archbishopric on November 14, 1956 .

Before the independence of Morocco (1956), the Archdiocese of Tangier had almost 115,000 believers; in 1980 there were only 9,750. In 2014 there were still 2,500 Catholics out of a total population of 4,175,000 in this region. In 1950 there were 22 diocesan priests , 50 religious priests , 114 friars and 211 religious sisters in 15 parishes .

In 2017 there were only 15 religious priests, 21 religious brothers and 77 religious sisters in 7 parishes in the Archdiocese of Tangier. The number of members of the Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Tangier is given as 3000. Caritas Morocco is represented in three Caritas centers in Rabat, Tangier and Casablanca.

It is not without interest that the diocese of Tangier is one of the mission areas of the Franciscan order , which still provides its bishops today .

Bishops

Bishops of Morocco (1468-1570)

Nunius Alvarez OSB (1468-1491)
Diego de Ortiz de Vilhegas (1491–1500) (also Bishop of Ceuta)
João Lobo (1500–1508)
Nicolas Pedro Mendez (1523–1542)
Gonçalo Pinheiro (1542–1552) (also Bishop of Viseu)
Francisco Guaresma OFM (1557–1585) (afterwards Bishop of Ceuta)

Vicars Apostolic of Morocco (1908-1956)

Francisco María Cervera y Cervera OFM (1908-1926)
José María Betanzos y Hormaechevarría OFM (1926-1948)

Archbishops of Tangier (since 1956)

Francisco Aldegunde Dorrego OFM (1948–1973)
Carlos Amigo Vallejo OFM (1973-1982)
José Antonio Peteiro Freire OFM (1983-2005)
Santiago Agrelo Martínez OFM (2007-2019)
- Sedis vacancy since May 24, 2019

Web links

Entry for the Archdiocese of Tangier on catholic-hierarchy.org
Entry on Archdiocese of Tangier on gcatholic.org (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Wolfgang Stammler: The German Literature of the Middle Ages: Author's Lexicon . Walter de Gruyter, 1978, ISBN 978-3-11-007264-8 ( google.com [accessed March 4, 2019]).
↑ search result. Retrieved March 4, 2019 .

[1] Wolfgang Stammler: The German Literature of the Middle Ages: Author's Lexicon . Walter de Gruyter, 1978, ISBN 978-3-11-007264-8 ( google.com [accessed March 4, 2019]).

[2] search result. Retrieved March 4, 2019 .