José María Libório Camino Saracho (13 November 1931 – 30 August 2021) was a Spanish-Brazilian

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. He served as the auxiliary bishop of the

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from 1999 to 2002,

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from 1999 to 2002, and the Bishop of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Presidente Prudente The Diocese of Presidente Prudente ( la, 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 Ar ...

from 2002 until his retirement in April 2008. Libório was born on 13 November 1931, in

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province in Spain's

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. His childhood was dominated by the

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. He was ordained a

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on July 6, 1958. He arrived as missionary in

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in 1967. Libório became a priest at the São Benedito parish in the Guaianases of

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in February 1968.

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appointed him as the simultaneous auxiliary bishop of the

and the titular bishop of

on 16 July 1999. His ordination took place on September 29, 1999. Libório was appointed the 4th Bishop of the

on 20 February 2002, and ordained on 7 April 2002. He served until his retirement on 17 August 2008. Bishop Emeritus José María Libório Camino Saracho died from complications of

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surgery at Santa Maggiore Hospital in

on 30 August 2021, at the age of 89. He was buried in the

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of the Catedral São Miguel Arcanjo in São Miguel Paulista on 31 August 2021.

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