CRATO, Diocese of. - It occupies the southern part of the State of Ceará in Brazil, a hot and very fertile region, but sometimes struck by terrible droughts.

A suffragan of the archdiocese of Fortaleza, it extends over 40,000 sq. km., has over 570,000 inhabitants of whom 569,500 are Catholics, 29 parishes, 45 diocesan priests and a minor seminary; the regular clergy is represented by the Salesians and by the Fathers of the Holy Family; the women's institutions are the Congregation of the Daughters of St. Teresa of Jesus and the diocesan one of the Daughters of St. Teresa founded in 1923. The titular [church] is the Madonna della Penna; feast on September 1. C. has been a city since 1852.

Its nucleus was founded at the beginning of the 17th century when Ceará was still under the jurisdiction of the governor of Pernambuco. With the Catholicae Ecclesiae, of October 20, 1914 by Benedict XV, it was erected as the seat of the diocese, whose territory was taken from that of Fortaleza, though it formed part of the ecclesiastical province of Olinda and Recife. The following year it was declared a suffragan of Fortaleza, when that city was elevated to a metropolis.

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BIBL.: AAS, 6 (1914), p. 551 and 7 (1915), p. 571; J. B. Lehmann, O Brasil Católico 1947, Juiz de Fora 1947, pp. 114-19.

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