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

Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

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