Diocese of Propriá
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Propriá is a Latin Rite suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archbishopric of Aracaju in Sergipe state, northeastern Brazil.
Its cathedral episcopal see is Catedral Santo Antônio, dedicated to Saint Anthony of Padua, 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 Diocese of Aracaju.
Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 334,500 Catholics on 8,181 km² in 25 parishes with 30 priests, 40 lay religious and 9 seminarians.Bishops
Episcopal ordinaries
;Suffragan Bishops of Propriá- José Brandão de Castro, Redemptorists, died 1999
- José Palmeira Lessa, went on to be the Metropolitan Archbishop of above Aracaju
- Mário Rino Sivieri
- Vítor Agnaldo de Menezes, appointed Archbishop of Vitória da Conquista, Bahia
- George Luís Amaral Muniz
Other priest of this diocese who became bishop
- Antônio dos Santos Cabral, appointed Bishop of Natal in 1917