Diocese of Quixadá, Brazil 🇧🇷

Continent: South America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Quixadá / Quixaden(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Fortaleza

Neighbouring Dioceses: Crateús (←), Sobral (↖), Baturité (↑), Fortaleza (↗), Limoeiro do Norte (→), Iguatu (↓)

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

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Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1971.03.13: Established as Diocese of Quixadá / Quixaden(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Fortaleza and became suffragan of Fortaleza)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2023.05.10 – ...):

Bishop Aurélio Pinto de Sousa (51)

Monsignors (1)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Quixadá (Roman Rite)

Bishop Aurélio Pinto de Sousa (51)
(2023.05.10 – ...)

Bishop of Quixadá (Brazil)

Pascite gregem Dei

Born:	1974.11.12 (Guaraciaba do Norte, CE, Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	2007.07.12
Consecrated Bishop:	2023.07.15

Priest of Tianguá (Brazil) (2007.07.12 – 2023.05.10)

Bishop of Quixadá (Brazil) (2023.05.10 – ...)

Bishop Ângelo Pignoli (79)
(2007.01.03 – 2021.12.15)

Bishop emeritus of Quixadá (Brazil)

Veritas liberabit vos

Born:	1946.12.04 (Cappella Picenardi, Italy)
Ordained Priest:	1976.03.19
Consecrated Bishop:	2007.03.11

Priest of Franca (Brazil) (1976.03.19 – 2007.01.03)

Bishop of Quixadá (Brazil) (2007.01.03 – 2021.12.15)

Bishop Adélio Giuseppe Tomasin, P.S.D.P.
(1988.03.16 – 2007.01.03)

Quærite Primum Regnum Dei

Born:	1930.04.27 (Montegaldella, Italy)
Ordained Priest:	1955.03.26
Consecrated Bishop:	1988.03.26
Died:	2024.09.30 (Quixadá, CE, Brazil † 94)

Superior General of Poor Servants of Divine Providence (1972 – 1984)

Bishop of Quixadá (Brazil) (1988.03.16 – 2007.01.03)

Bishop Joaquim Rufino do Rêgo
(1971.04.21 – 1986.03.25)

In caritate Christi

Born:	1926.01.14 (Picos, PI, Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1952.10.05
Consecrated Bishop:	1971.07.04
Died:	2013.08.10 (Teresina, PI, Brazil † 87)

Bishop of Quixadá (Brazil) (1971.04.21 – 1986.03.25)

Bishop of Parnaíba (Brazil) (1986.03.25 – 2001.02.21)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Catedral Jesus, Maria, José, Quixadá, Ceará
Jubilee Churches in the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy (2016)
Jubilee Churches in the Holy Year 2025

Churches by City (26)

Crateús (←), Sobral (↖), Baturité (↑), Fortaleza (↗), Limoeiro do Norte (→), Iguatu (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 13,874 km²

Population: 344,000 Catholics (97.2% of 354,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 22 parishes, 2 missions

Personnel: 44 priests (40 diocesan, 4 religious), 48 religious (10 brothers, 38 sisters), 14 seminarians