The Roman Catholic Diocese of Limoeiro do Norte () is a Latin Rite suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Fortaleza, both in Ceará state, northeast Brazil.
Its cathedral episcopal see is Catedral Nossa Senhora da Conceiçao, dedicated to Immaculate Conception, in the city of Limoeiro do Norte.
History
Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 489,000 Catholics (90.4% of 541,000 total) on 18,440 km<sup>2</sup> in 25 parishes and 1 mission with 41 priests (28 diocesan, 13 religious), 73 lay religious (18 brothers, 55 sisters) and 9 seminarians.
Bishops
(all Roman rite)
Episcopal ordinaries
Suffragan Bishops of Limoeiro do Norte
- Aureliano de Matos (1940.01.30 â death 1967.08.19), no previous prelature
- José Freire Falcão (1967.08.19 â 1971.11.25), succeeding as previous Titular Bishop of Vardimissa (1967.04.24 â 1967.08.19) as Coadjutor Bishop of Limoeiro do Norte (1967.04.24 â 1967.08.19); later Metropolitan Archbishop of Teresina (Brazil) (1971.11.25 â 1984.02.15), Metropolitan Archbishop of BrasÃÂlia (Brazil) (1984.02.15 â 2004.01.28), Second Vice-President of Latin American Episcopal Council (1987 â 1991), created Cardinal-Priest of S. Luca a Via Prenestina (1988.06.28 â ...)
- Pompeu Bezerra Bessa (1973.01.25 â death 1994.05.18), died 2000
- Manuel Edmilson da Cruz (1994.05.18 â retired 1998.05.06), previously Titular Bishop of Vicus Cæsaris (1966.08.08 â 1994.05.18) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of São LuÃÂs do Maranhão (Brazil) (1966.08.08 â 1974.07.03) and as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Fortaleza (Brazil) (1974.07.03 â 1994.05.18), also Apostolic Administrator sede plena of Limoeiro do Norte (1992 â 1994.05.18)
- José Haring, O.F.M. (2000.01.19 â retired 2017.05.10)
- André Vital Félix da Silva, Dehonians (S.C.I.) (2017.05.10 â ...).
Coadjutor bishop
Other priest of this diocese who became bishop
See also
Sources and external links