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Roman Catholic Diocese of Propriá

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Rite
  
Latin Rite

Area
  
8,198 km²

Metropolitan archbishop
  
José Palmeira Lessa

Pope
  
Francis

Country
  
Brazil

Population - Total - Catholics
  
(as of 2004) 307,792 300,045 (97.5%)

Established
  
30 April 1960 (56 years ago)

Cathedral
  
Cathedral of St Anthony in Propriá

Ecclesiastical province
  
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Aracaju

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Propriá (Latin: Dioecesis Propriensis) is a suffragan Latin diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archbishopric of Aracaju in Sergipe state, northeastern Brazil.

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Its cathedral episcopal see is Catedral Santo Antônio, dedicated to Saint Anthony, in the city of Propriá, also in Sergipe.

History

  • Established on April 30, 1960 as Diocese of Propriá, on territory split off from its simultaneously promoted mother see, the (newly Arch)Diocese of Aracaju.

    • Statistics

    As per 2014, it pastorally served 334,500 Catholics (97.4% of 343,600 total) on 8,181 km² in 25 parishes with 30 priests (29 diocesan, 1 religious), 40 lay religious (1 brother, 39 sisters) and 9 seminarians.

    Episcopal Ordinaries

    (all Roman rite)

    Suffragan Bishops of Propriá
  • José Brandão de Castro, Redemptorists (C.SS.R.) (1960.06.25 – retired 1987.10.30), died 1999
  • José Palmeira Lessa (1987.10.30 – 1996.12.06), also Coadjutor Archbishop of Aracaju (Brazil) (1996.12.06 – 1998.08.26); previously Titular Bishop of Sita (1982.06.21 – 1987.10.30) as Auxiliary Bishop of (São Sebastião do) Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) (1982.06.21 – 1987.10.30); next succeeded as Metropolitan Archbishop of above Aracaju ((1998.08.26 – retired 2017.01.18)
  • Mário Rino Sivieri (1997.03.18 – ...), no previous prelature

    • References

    Roman Catholic Diocese of Propriá Wikipedia
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