Dom Gregório Paixão, OSB, emite decreto sobre funcionamento dos Institutos de Vida Consagrada ou Sociedades de Vida Apostólica

Bishop Gregório Paixão, OSB, issued a decree establishing rules for how institutes of consecrated life and societies of apostolic life may operate within the Archdiocese of Fortaleza.

The document, Decree No. 007/2026, was published on September 2, 2026. It sets the standards required to authorize groups inspired by consecrated or apostolic life to function within the archdiocesan territory.

The Archbishop of Fortaleza signed the decree to help the archdiocese monitor the pastoral work of these groups and their specific missions.