Roman Catholic Diocese of Presidente Prudente
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.
Diocese of Presidente Prudente Dioecesis Prudentipolitana Diocese de Presidente Prudente | |
|---|---|
 Cathedral of St. Sebastian | |
| Location | |
| Country | Brazil |
| Ecclesiastical province | Botucatu |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 13,251 km2 (5,116 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2004) 511,445 470,000 (91.9%) |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Catholic Church |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | 16 January 1960 (63 years ago) |
| Cathedral | Cathedral of St Sebastian in Presidente Prudente |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | Benedito Gonçalves dos Santos |
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
Sources and External links
- GCatholic.org - data for all sections
- Catholic Hierarchy
- Diocese website (in Portuguese)
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