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Roman Catholic Diocese of Presidente Prudente

Roman Catholic Diocese of Presidente Prudente

Latin Catholic ecclesiastical territory in Brazil

The Diocese of Presidente Prudente (Latin: Dioecesis Prudentipolitana) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Southern Brazil. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Botucatu.

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Its cathedra is in the Catedral São Sebastião, dedicated to Saint Sebastian, in the episcopal see of Presidente Prudente.

History

  • Established on January 16, 1960, as Diocese of Presidente Prudente, on territory split off from Diocese of Assis.

Statistics

As per 2015, it pastorally served 542,400 Catholics (93.1% of 582,700 total) on 15,513 km2 in 53 parishes and 4 missions with 67 priests (55 diocesan, 12 religious), 58 lay religious (22 brothers, 36 sisters) and 17 seminarians .

Bishops

Episcopal Ordinaries

(all native Brazilians)

Suffragan Bishops of Presidente Prudente
  • José de Aquino Pereira (1960.03.26 – 1968.05.06); previously Bishop of Dourados (Brazil) (1958.01.23 – 1960.03.26); next Bishop of Rio Preto (Brazil) (1968.05.06 – retired 1997.02.26), died 2011
  • José Gonçalves da Costa, C.SS.R. (later Archbishop) (1969.11.24 – 1975.08.19); previously Titular Bishop of Rhodopolis (1962.06.25 – 1969.11.24) as Auxiliary Bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) (1962.06.25 – 1969.11.24), Secretary General of National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (1964 – 1968); later Titular Archbishop of Ulcinj (1975.08.19 – 1979.04.19) as Coadjutor Archbishop of Niterói (Brazil) (1975.08.19 – 1979.04.19), succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Niterói (1979.04.19 – 1990.05.09), died 2001
  • Antônio Agostinho Marochi (1976.02.02 – retired 2002.02.20), died 2018; previously Titular Bishop of Thabraca (1973.09.27 – 1976.02.02) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Londrina (Brazil) (1973.09.27 – 1976.02.02)
  • José María Libório Camino Saracho (2002.02.20 – retired 2008.04.16); previously Titular Bishop of Urusi (1999.06.16 – 2002.02.20) as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of São Miguel Paulista (Brazil) (1999.06.16 – 2002.02.20)
  • Benedito Gonçalves dos Santos (2008.04.16 – ...).

Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

  • Maurício Grotto de Camargo, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Assis, São Paulo in 2000

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