Roman Catholic Diocese of Presidente Prudente

History

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

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Bishops

Episcopal Ordinaries

• 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