Roman Catholic Diocese of Limoeiro do Norte
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Limoeiro do Norte is a Latin rite suffragan diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of Fortaleza, both in Ceará state, northeast Brazil.
Its cathedral episcopal see is Catedral Nossa Senhora da Conceiçao, dedicated to Immaculate Conception, in the city of Limoeiro do Norte.History
As per 2014, it pastorally served 489,000 Catholics on 18,440 km² in 25 parishes and 1 mission with 41 priests, 73 lay religious and 9 seminarians.Bishops
Episcopal ordinaries
;Suffragan Bishops of Limoeiro do Norte
- Aureliano de Matos, no previous prelature
- José Freire Falcão, succeeding as previous Titular Bishop of Vardimissa as Coadjutor Bishop of Limoeiro do Norte ; later Metropolitan Archbishop of Teresina , Metropolitan Archbishop of Brasília , Second Vice-President of Latin American Episcopal Council, created Cardinal-Priest of S. Luca a Via Prenestina
- Pompeu Bezerra Bessa, died 2000
- Manuel Edmilson da Cruz, previously Titular Bishop of Vicus Cæsaris as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of São Luís do Maranhão and as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Fortaleza , also Apostolic Administrator sede plena of Limoeiro do Norte
- José Haring, Friars Minor
- André Vital Félix da Silva, Dehonians .
Coadjutor bishop
- José Freire Falcão ; future Cardinal
Other priest of this diocese who became bishop
- José Mauro Ramalho de Alarcón Santiago, sppointed Bishop of Iguatú, Ceara in 1961
