With the rapid development of the global dye industry, a series of environmental problems affecting the ecosystem and human health has been perceived. In this work, a porous porphyrin catecholate iron-based metal-organic framework (MOF) (PorphCat-Fe) has been prepared and evaluated for the first time for adsorptive removal of azo-dye methyl orange (MO) pollutant from aqueous media. Consequently, various MO adsorption factors using PorphCat-Fe MOF were studied and optimized. PorphCat-Fe was able to remove about 98% of the pollutant from the water within 20 min in the batch experiments with maximum adsorption capacity of 232.5 mg g À1 . Under optimum conditions, the limit of detection (LOD) was found to be 0.8 μg L À1 . The MOF could maintain its adsorption efficiency toward MO in the real samples. The combination of electrostatic attractions, hydrophobic and π-π interactions, and iron-organic coordination bonding make PorphCat-Fe able to show the superior MO adsorption capacity. Remarkably, the removal efficiency of MO was nearly unchanged after five regeneration sequences on PorphCat-Fe. This effort offers the ability for application of MOFs beyond metal-carboxylate linkers in wastewater remediation.