Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Aracaju
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Aracaju is a Latin Metropolitan archdiocese in the State of Sergipe, northeastern Brazil.
Its cathedral archiepiscopal see is Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora da Conceiçao, dedicated to Our Lady of Immaculate Conception, in the city of Aracaju. It has two more World Heritage Site, parish/convent churches in São Cristóvão, Sergipe: Igreja de Santa Casa de Misericórdia and Igreja e Convento de São Cruz.Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 1,086,000 Catholics on 7,019 km² in 99 parishes with 159 priests, 21 deacons, 321 lay religious and 34 seminarians.History
It was established on January 3, 1910, as Diocese of Aracaju, on territory split off from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of São Salvador da Bahia.
On April 30, 1960, it was promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Aracaju, losing territory to establish its two suffragans: Diocese of Estância and Diocese of Propriá.Ecclesiastical province
Its Suffragan dioceses are both daughter sees :
;Suffragan Bishops of Aracaju
;Metropolitan Archbishops of Aracaju
Coadjutor archbishops
- José Palmeira Lessa
- João José da Costa, O. Carm.
Auxiliary bishops
- Nivaldo Monte, appointed Apostolic Administrator of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte
- Luciano José Cabral Duarte, appointed Archbishop here
- Edvaldo Gonçalves Amaral, S.D.B., appointed Bishop of Parnaíba, Piaui
- Hildebrando Mendes Costa, appointed Bishop of Estância, Sergipe
- João Maria Messi, O.S.M., appointed Bishop of Irecê, Bahia
- Dulcênio Fontes de Matos, appointed Bishop of Palmeira dos Índios, Alagoas
- Henrique Soares da Costa, appointed Bishop of Palmares, Pernambuco
Other priests of this diocese who became bishops
- Manuel Raimundo de Melo, appointed Bishop of Caetité, Bahia in 1914
- Avelar Brandão Vilela. appointed Bishop of Petrolina, Pernambuco in 1946; future Cardinal
- Marco Eugênio Galrão Leite de Almeida, appointed Bishop of Estância, Sergipe in 2003
- Carlos Alberto dos Santos, appointed Bishop of Teixeira de Freitas-Caravelas, Bahia in 2005
- Valdemir Vicente Andrade Santos, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Fortaleza, Ceara in 2018
