Arlindo Gomes Furtado, CSSp (born 15 November 1949) is a Cape Verdean Catholic prelate who has served as Bishop of Santiago de Cabo Verde since 2009.

He studied at a primary school in nearby Achada Lem and by October 1962 completed his secondary education at the Seminary of São José in Praia.

He worked at the Nossa Senhora da Graça until Bishop Evora ordained him a priest on 18 July 1976 and made him parish vicar there.

He became a member of the National Education Council, taught at the Police Training School, and served as vicar general of the Diocese of Santiago.

[2] On 11 December 2003, Pope John Paul II named him the first bishop of the newly created diocese of Mindelo.