Diocese of Quixadá
Quixaden(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Quixadá, Brazil
The Diocese of Quixada is a Latin Church see in Ceara, Brazil, erected in 1971 and suffragan to the Archdiocese of Fortaleza. Bishop Aurelio Pinto de Sousa was installed as its fourth bishop in August 2023.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 13 March 1971
- Latin
- Quixaden(sis)
- Patron
- The Holy Family (Jesus, Mary and Joseph)
- Annuario code
- 001002706
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 281,000
- Population
- 313,000
- Catholic share
- 89.8%
- Priests
- 43
- Catholics per priest
- 6,535
- Extent
- 14,846 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 19
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
- Aurélio Pinto de Sousa
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
Catedral de Jesus, Maria e José stands in Quixadá, 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 Fortaleza.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of BaturitéBaturité
- Diocese of CrateúsCrateús
- Diocese of CratoCrato
- Archdiocese of FortalezaFortaleza
- Diocese of IguatuIguatu
- Diocese of ItapipocaItapipoca
- Diocese of Limoeiro do NorteLimoeiro do Norte
- Diocese of SobralSobral
- Diocese of TianguáTianguá
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The city of Quixadá in Brazil hosts the seat of this diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Quixadensis), part of the ecclesiastical province of Fortaleza.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Cúria Diocesana, Rua Basilio Pinto 1149, Bairro Combate, C.P. 34, 63903-415 Quixadá, CE, Brasil
- Telephone
- e fax [088]3412-0548
- [email protected]
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].