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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Maastricht (Latin Traiectum ad Mosam) was a Roman Catholic jurisdiction in parts of present Netherlands (including the see Maastricht) and Belgium, which has been nominally revived as a Latin titular bishopric.

History[edit]

Established in 530 as Diocese of Maastricht on the territory of the suppressed Diocese of Tongeren and Maastricht (thus renamed to acknowledge Maastricht as its secondary see circa 380).

Suppressed in 720, its territory being used to establish the Roman Catholic Diocese of Liège, which also become a great prince-bishopric within the Holy Roman Empire.[1][2]

Ordinaries[edit]

Various terms of office are disputed, some bishops may be legendary

Titular see[edit]

In 1971 the diocese was nominally restored as a Latin Titular see of Episcopal rank.

It has had the following incumbents :

See also[edit]

Servatius of Tongeren

References[edit]

  • ^ a b New Advent website, St. Hubert
  • ^ University of Liège website, The relics of Saint Perpète (Dinant, Belgium), bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht between the end of the 6th and the beginning of the 7th century, in the light of anthropobiologival, archaeological and written data, by Wymmersch, Guillaume and Polet, Caroline (2021)
  • ^ Riché, Pierre (1993). The Carolingians: A Family Who Forged Europe. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-8122-1342-3.
  • ^ Saint for a Minute website, Saint Theodard of Maastricht
  • ^ Vatican Press Office website, Resignations and Appointments, 15.02.2018
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