Diocese of Estância, Brazil

Continent: South America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Estância / Stantian(us) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Aracaju

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

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Celebrations

Patron Saint: Nossa Senhora de Guadalupe (December 12)

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1960.04.30: Established as Diocese of Estância / Stantian(us) (Latin) (from Diocese of Aracaju and became suffragan of Aracaju)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2022.11.30 – ...):

Bishop José Genivaldo Garcia (56)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Estância (Roman Rite)

Bishop José Genivaldo Garcia (56)
(2022.11.30 – ...)

Bishop of Estância (Brazil)

Enxerit me domines propheta et pastori

Born:	1968.08.24 (Cumbe, SE, Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1994.01.08
Consecrated Bishop:	2023.02.11

Priest of Aracaju (Brazil) (1994.01.08 – 2022.11.30)

Bishop of Estância (Brazil) (2022.11.30 – ...)

Bishop Giovanni Crippa, I.M.C. (65)
(2014.07.09 – 2021.08.11)

Bishop of Ilhéus (Brazil)

In ædificationem corporis Christi

Born:	1958.10.06 (Besana Brianza, Italy)
Ordained Priest:	1985.09.14
Consecrated Bishop:	2012.05.13

Titular Bishop of Accia (2012.03.21 – 2014.07.09)

Auxiliary Bishop of São Salvador da Bahia (Brazil) (2012.03.21 – 2014.07.09)

Apostolic Administrator of Estância (Brazil) (2013.09.25 – 2014.07.09)

Bishop of Estância (Brazil) (2014.07.09 – 2021.08.11)

Bishop of Ilhéus (Brazil) (2021.08.11 – ...)

Bishop Giovanni Crippa, I.M.C. (65)
(Apostolic Administrator 2013.09.25 – 2014.07.09)

Bishop Marco Eugênio Galrão Leite de Almeida (65)
(2003.04.30 – 2013.09.25)

Titular Bishop of Albulæ
Auxiliary Bishop of São Salvador da Bahia (Brazil)

Propter te Domine

Born:	1959.01.30 (Aracaju, SE, Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1989.12.10
Consecrated Bishop:	2003.07.16

Priest of Aracaju (Brazil) (1989.12.10 – 2003.04.30)

Bishop of Estância (Brazil) (2003.04.30 – 2013.09.25)

Titular Bishop of Albulæ (2013.09.25 – ...)

Auxiliary Bishop of São Salvador da Bahia (Brazil) (2013.09.25 – ...)

Bishop Hildebrando Mendes Costa (98)
(1986.03.25 – 2003.04.30)

Bishop emeritus of Estância (Brazil)

Orationi et Ministerio

Born:	1926.06.16 (Barra do Itiúba, AL, Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1951.12.02
Consecrated Bishop:	1981.05.24

Titular Bishop of Arindela (1981.03.15 – 1986.03.25)

Auxiliary Bishop of Aracaju (Brazil) (1981.03.15 – 1986.03.25)

Bishop of Estância (Brazil) (1986.03.25 – 2003.04.30)

Bishop José Bezerra Coutinho
(1961.01.28 – 1985.06.01)

Dominus illuminatio mea

Born:	1910.02.07 (Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1933.12.03
Consecrated Bishop:	1956.10.28
Died:	2008.11.07 († 98)

Titular Bishop of Uthina (1956.08.04 – 1961.01.28)

Auxiliary Bishop of Sobral (Brazil) (1956.08.04 – 1961.01.28)

Bishop of Estância (Brazil) (1961.01.28 – 1985.06.01)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Catedral Nossa Senhora de Guadalupe, Estância, Sergipe
Shrines in the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy

Alagoinhas (↙), Paulo Afonso (↖), Aracaju (↗)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 6,650 km²

Population: 400,800 Catholics (78.2% of 512,389 total)

Pastoral Centres: 28 parishes

Personnel: 44 priests (diocesan), 50 religious (50 sisters), 16 seminarians