Diocese of Crato, Brazil 🇧🇷

Celebrations

History

• 1914.10.20: Established as Diocese of Crato / Craten(sis) (Latin) (from Diocese of Ceará and became suffragan of Olinda)
• 1915.11.10: Became suffragan of Fortaleza
• 1961.01.28: Lost territory to establish Diocese of Iguatu

Present Prelates

Ordinaries

Former Prelates

• Coadjutor Bishop:  Bishop Gilberto Pastana de Oliveira (68) (later Archbishop) (2016.05.18 – 2016.12.28)
• Auxiliary Bishop:  Bishop Newton Holanda Gurgel (1979.04.10 – 1993.11.24)
• Auxiliary Bishop:  Bishop Vicente de Paulo Araújo Matos (1955.04.21 – 1961.01.28)

Statistics (2022.12.31)