Chronology of Catholic Dioceses:Western Sahara
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- 290-343
- Barcelona - Spain
- 713
- Barcelona (abandoned due to Arab Muslim conquest) - Spain
- 850
- Barcelona (restored) - Spain
- 1237
- Mallorca (reestablished, detached from Barcelona) - Spain
- 1351
- Insulas Fortunatis / Islas Canarias (erected by monks out of Mallorca) - Spain
- 1354
- Islas Canarias (vacant/abandoned) - Spain
- 1369
- Telde / Islas Canarias (revived) - Spain
- 1393
- Islas Canarias (abandoned) - Spain
- 1404
- Rubicon / Islas Canarias (revived) - Spain
- 1485
- Las Palmas / Islas Canarias (new name, previously Rubicon) - Spain
- 1630
- Marocco (AP) - (State of Fez, State of Morocco) - Morocco
- 1908
- Marocco (AV) - (French Morocco, Spanish Morocco) - Morocco
- 1923
- Rabat (AV, detached from Marocco AV) - (French Morocco) - Morocco
- 1955
- Rabat (AD) - Morocco
- 1954
- Spanish Sahara and Ifni (AP, detached from Las Palmas, from Rabat AD, and from Ghardaia in Sahara AV) - (Spanish Sahara and Ifni) Western Sahara
- 1970
- Spanish Sahara (AP, new name, previously Spanish Sahara and Ifni AP) - (Spanish Sahara) Western Sahara
- 1976
- Western Sahara (AP, new name, previously Spanish Sahara AP) - Western Sahara