Diocese of Estância
The Diocese of Estância is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church located in the city of Estância. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of metropolitan Archdiocese of Aracajú in Brazil.
History
- April 30, 1960: Established as Diocese of Estância from the Diocese of Aracaju
Bishops
Ordinaries
- Bishops of Estância, in reverse chronological order
- * Bishop José Genivaldo Garcia
- * Bishop Giovanni Crippa, I.M.C., appointed Bishop of Ilhéus, Bahia
- * Bishop Marco Eugênio Galrão Leite de Almeida, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of São Salvador da Bahia
- * Bishop Hildebrando Mendes Costa
- * Bishop José Bezerra Coutinho
Other priests of this diocese who became bishops
- Dulcênio Fontes de Matos, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Aracajú, Sergipe in 2001
- Paulo Celso Dias do Nascimento, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro in 2017