Diocese of Limoeiro do Norte


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 on 18,440 km2 in 25 parishes and 1 mission with 41 priests, 73 lay religious and 9 seminarians.

Bishops

Episcopal ordinaries

;Suffragan Bishops of Limoeiro do Norte

Coadjutor bishop

Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

  • José Mauro Ramalho de Alarcón Santiago, appointed Bishop of Iguatú, Ceara in 1961