Diocese of Baturité
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Baturité, Brazil
The Diocese of Baturité is a Latin Church diocese in Ceará, Brazil, newly erected on 1 January 2026 from territory of the Archdiocese of Fortaleza and comprising 14 municipalities. It is a suffragan of Fortaleza, with Bishop Luis Gonzaga Silva Pepeu, O.F.M. Cap., as its first ordinary.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1 January 2026
- Patron
- Our Lady of the Palm (Nossa Senhora da Palma)
- Annuario code
- 001005140
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 205,770
- Population
- 298,221
- Catholic share
- 69.0%
- Priests
- 39
- Catholics per priest
- 5,276
of the people living within its bounds
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Luis Gonzaga Silva Pepeu, O.F.M. Cap.
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Palm stands in Baturité, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Fortaleza
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Fortaleza.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of CrateúsCrateús
- Diocese of CratoCrato
- Archdiocese of FortalezaFortaleza
- Diocese of IguatuIguatu
- Diocese of ItapipocaItapipoca
- Diocese of Limoeiro do NorteLimoeiro do Norte
- Diocese of QuixadáQuixadá
- Diocese of SobralSobral
- Diocese of TianguáTianguá
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- . . . . ., Baturité, Brasil
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it, are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].