Diocese of Presidente Prudente
The Diocese of Presidente Prudente 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.
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 on 15,513 km2 in 53 parishes and 4 missions with 67 priests, 58 lay religious and 17 seminarians.Bishops
Episcopal Ordinaries
;Suffragan Bishops of Presidente Prudente- José de Aquino Pereira ; previously Bishop of Dourados ; next Bishop of Rio Preto, died 2011
- José Gonçalves da Costa, C.SS.R. ; previously Titular Bishop of Rhodopolis as Auxiliary Bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Secretary General of National Conference of Bishops of Brazil ; later Titular Archbishop of Ulcinj as Coadjutor Archbishop of Niterói, succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Niterói, died 2001
- Antônio Agostinho Marochi, died 2018; previously Titular Bishop of Thabraca as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Londrina
- José María Libório Camino Saracho ; previously Titular Bishop of Urusi as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of São Miguel Paulista
- Benedito Gonçalves dos Santos.
Other priest of this diocese who became bishop
- Maurício Grotto de Camargo, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Assis, São Paulo in 2000