Suffragan diocese Estância, Brazil
Diocese of Estância
Stantian(us)
Latin Church
Latin-rite diocese in Sergipe state, northeastern Brazil. Erected 30 April 1960 from the Diocese (now Archdiocese) of Aracaju, of which it is a suffragan. Its cathedral is the Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Estancia.
On the map
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- Established
- 1960
- Catholics
- 423,228
- Priests
- 44
- Territory
- 6,736 km²
Parishes and churches
15 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
- Catedral Nossa Senhora de GuadalupeEstância · CathedralView parish
- Igreja Divino Espírito SantoIndiarobaView parish
- Igreja Nossa Senhora da ConceiçãoArauáView parish
- Igreja Nossa Senhora da ConceiçãoItabaianinhaView parish
- Igreja Nossa Senhora da GuiaUmbaúbaView parish
- Igreja Nossa Senhora de FátimaSimão DiasView parish
- Igreja Nossa Senhora do AmparoRiachão do DantasView parish
- Igreja Nossa Senhora do SocorroTomar do GeruView parish
- Igreja Nossa Senhora EmperatrizTobias BarretoView parish
- Igreja Santa LuziaSanta Luzia do ItanhyView parish
- Igreja Senhor do BonfimSalgadoView parish
- Igreja Senhora Sant’AnaBoquimView parish
- Igreja São Francisco de AssisCristinápolisView parish
- Igreja São JoséPedrinhasView parish
- Igreja São SebastiãoPoço VerdeView parish
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Jose Genivaldo Garcia
- Born
- 24 August 1968
- Birthplace
- Cumbe
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The cathedral
Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Estancia stands in Estância, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
History
The city of Estância is home to this Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church, known in Latin as Dioecesis Stantianus. It is suffragan to the metropolitan Archdiocese of Aracajú in Brazil.