Diocese of Itapipoca
Itapipocan(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Itapipoca, Brazil
The Diocese of Itapipoca is a Latin Church suffragan diocese in the state of Ceara, Brazil, established in 1971 from territory of the Archdiocese of Fortaleza. Its cathedral is dedicated to Our Lady of Mercy.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 13 March 1971
- Latin
- Itapipocan(us)
- Patron
- Our Lady of Mercy
- Annuario code
- 001001694
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 412,000
- Population
- 457,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 90.2%
- Priests
- 59
- Catholics per priest
- 6,983
- Extent
- 11,266 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 37
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
- Rosalvo Cordeiro de Lima
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 Nossa Senhora das Merces stands in Itapipoca, 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 BaturitéBaturité
- Diocese of CrateúsCrateús
- Diocese of CratoCrato
- Archdiocese of FortalezaFortaleza
- Diocese of IguatuIguatu
- 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.
History
Belonging to the ecclesiastical province of Fortaleza in Brazil, this see (Latin: Dioecesis Itapipocana) was erected on March 13, 1971, as the Diocese of Itapipoca, carved from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Fortaleza.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Cúria Diocesana, Av. Duque de Caxias 1125, 62502-388 Fazendinha, Itapipoca, CE, Brasil
- Telephone
- [088]99667-9870
This see keeps no website of its own, so the address of its diocesan offices 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.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.