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 (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.http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/prop0.htm GCatholic.org
Bishops (all Roman rite)http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/prop0.htm GCatholic.org
Episcopal ordinaries 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), went on to be the Metropolitan Archbishop of above Aracaju (1998.08.26 – retired 2017.01.18) Mário Rino Sivieri (1997.03.18 – 2017.10.25) Vítor Agnaldo de Menezes (2017.10.25 – 2025.02.14), appointed Archbishop of Vitória da Conquista, Bahia George Luís Amaral Muniz (2025.10.25 – present)
Other priest of this diocese who became bishop Antônio dos Santos Cabral, appointed Bishop of Natal in 1917
See also List of Catholic dioceses in Brazil
References
Sources end external links GCatholic.org, with Google map & satellite photo - data for all sections Catholic Hierarchy