Jurisdiction: | Diocese |
Propriá | |
Latin: | Dioecesis Propriensis |
Local: | Diocese de Propriá |
Country: | Brazil |
Rite: | Latin Rite |
Established: | 30 April 1960 (years ago) |
Cathedral: | Cathedral of St Anthony in Propriá |
Area Km2: | 8,198 |
Population: | 307,792 |
Population As Of: | 2004 |
Catholics: | 300,045 |
Catholics Percent: | 97.5 |
Bishop: | Vitor Agnaldo de Menenez |
Metro Archbishop: | José Palmeira Lessa |
Website: | www.diocesedepropria.com.br |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Propriá (la|Dioecesis Propriensis) 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.
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.[1]
(all Roman rite)[2]