Roman Catholic Diocese of Presidente Prudente

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 (64 years ago)
Cathedral	Cathedral of St Sebastian in Presidente Prudente
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Benedito Gonçalves dos Santos

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.

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)