The Catholic diocese of Ceuta, first Portuguese and afterwards Spanish, existed from 1417 to 1879. It was a suffragan of the Patriarchate of Lisbon until 1675, with the end of the Iberian Union, when Ceuta choose to remain linked to the king of Spain. Since then it was a suffragan of the archdiocese of Seville.^[1] Its territory around Ceuta had previously belonged to the Order of Christ.^[2]

The diocese of Tanger was united to it, in 1570.^[3] In 1851, upon the signature of the concordat between the Holy See and Spain, the diocese of Ceuta was agreed to be suppressed, being combined into the diocese of Cádiz y Ceuta^[4] (up to then diocese of Cádiz y Algeciras). However, the agreement was not implemented until 1879.

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• Cathedral of St Mary of the Assumption (Ceuta)

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[edit] External links

• La definitiva agregación de la diócesis de Ceuta a la de Cádiz (1877-1879), María José Vilar, Hispania sacra, ISSN 0018-215X, Vol. 57, Nº 115, 2005, pgs. 243-262 (Spanish)