José Alves da Costa (April 20, 1939 – December 4, 2012) was a Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church who was the bishop of the

Diocese of Corumbá In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associat ...

in Brazil. Ordained to the priesthood in 1965, he was named bishop in 1986 and resigned in 1999.

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20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Brazil 1939 births 2012 deaths Roman Catholic bishops of Corumbá Roman Catholic bishops of Ponta Grossa {{brazil-RC-bishop-stub