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The Roman Catholic Diocese of São Carlos ( la, Dioecesis Sancti Caroli in Brasilia) is a
diocese In Ecclesiastical polity, 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 Roman province, pro ...
located in the city of
São Carlos São Carlos (Saint Charles, in English, ; named after Saint Charles Borromeo) is a Brazilian municipality in the interior of the state of São Paulo, 254 kilometers from the city of São Paulo. With a population of 254,484 inhabitants, it is th ...
in the
ecclesiastical province An ecclesiastical province is one of the basic forms of jurisdiction Jurisdiction (from Latin 'law' + 'declaration') is the legal term for the legal authority granted to a legal entity to enact justice. In federations like the United State ...
of
Campinas Campinas (, ''Plains'' or ''Meadows'') is a Brazilian municipality in São Paulo State, part of the country's Southeast Region. According to the 2020 estimate, the city's population is 1,213,792, making it the fourteenth most populous Brazilian ...
in Brazil.


History

* June 7, 1908: Established as Diocese of São Carlos do Pinhal from the
Diocese of São Paulo 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 ...
* November 25, 1957: Renamed as Diocese of São Carlos


Bishops


Ordinaries, in reverse chronological order

* Bishops of São Carlos ** Bishop
Paulo Cezar Costa Paulo Cezar Costa (born 20 July 1967) is a Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been Metropolitan Archbishop of Brasilia since December 2020. He has been a bishop since 2010 and served as Bishop of São Carlos from 2016 to 2020. O ...
(2016.06.22 - present) ** Bishop Paulo Sérgio Machado (2006.11.22 – 2015.12.16) ** Bishop
Joviano de Lima Júnior Joviano de Lima Júnior (April 23, 1942 – June 21, 2012) was the Roman Catholic archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ribeirão Preto, Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ) ...
, S.S.S. (1995.10.25 – 2006.04.05), appointed Archbishop of Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo ** Bishop Constantino Amstalden (1986.09.19 – 1995.10.25) ** Bishop Ruy Serra (1957.11.25 – 1986.09.19) * Bishops of São Carlos do Pinhal (Roman Rite) ** Bishop Ruy Serra (1948.02.13 – 1957.11.25) ** Bishop Gastão Liberal Pinto (1937.10.15 – 1945.10.24) ** Archbishop (personal title) José Marcondes Homem de Melo (1908.08.09 – 1937.10.15)


Coadjutor bishops

* Gastão Liberal Pinto (1934-1937) * Constantino Amstalden (1971-1986)


Auxiliary bishops

*
Sérgio Aparecido Colombo Sérgio Aparecido Colombo (29 August 1954) is a Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been Roman Catholic Diocese of Bragança Paulista, Bishop of Bragança Paulista since 2009. He was an auxiliary bishop in Roman Catholic Diocese of Sã ...
(2001-2003), appointed Bishop of Paranavaí, Parana *
Eduardo Malaspina Eduardo is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the male given name Edward. Another version is Duarte. It may refer to: Association football * Eduardo Bonvallet, Chilean football player and sports commentator * Eduardo Carvalho, Portuguese footb ...
(2018-


Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

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José de Aquino Pereira José de Aquino Pereira (April 22, 1920 – November 17, 2011) was a Brazilian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion ...
, appointed Bishop of Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul in 1958 *
Rubens Augusto de Souza Espínola Rubens Augusto de Souza Espínola (8 June 1928 – 28 December 2017) was a Brazilian Roman Catholic Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy * Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century A ...
, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of São Luís de Montes Belos, Goias in 1980 * Virgílio de Pauli, appointed Bishop of Campo Mourão, Parana in 1981 *
José Antônio Aparecido Tosi Marques José Antônio Aparecido Tosi Marques (born 13 May 1948) is a Brazilian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He has been serving as the Archbishop of Fortaleza since his appointing on 13 January 1999. Biography Born in 1948, first of six b ...
, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of São Salvador da Bahia in 1991 *
Bruno Gamberini Bruno Gamberini (July 16, 1950 – August 28, 2011) was the Roman Catholic archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Campinas, Brazil. Born in Matão, São Paulo São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for ' Saint Paul') is the most populous c ...
, appointed Bishop of Bragança Paulista, São Paulo in 1995 * Francisco José Zugliani, appointed Bishop of Amparo, São Paulo in 1997 *
Sérgio da Rocha Sérgio da Rocha (; born 21 October 1959) is a Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been the Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia on 11 March 2020. Previously, he was the Archbishop of Brasília. Biography Da Rocha was born in Dob ...
, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Fortaleza, Ceara in 2001; future Cardinal *
Francisco Carlos da Silva Francisco is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the masculine given name ''Franciscus''. Nicknames In Spanish, people with the name Francisco are sometimes nicknamed "Paco". San Francisco de Asís was known as ''Pater Comunitatis'' (father of ...
, appointed Bishop of Ituiutaba, Minas Gerais in 2007 * Luis Gonzaga Féchio, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais in 2011 *
Moacir Aparecido de Freitas Moacyr, also spelled Moacir, is a Brazilian masculine name of Tupi origin. According to the Brazilian philologist Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, it means "regret", "repentance". It can refer to: * Moacir Barbosa Nascimento (1921–2000), nicknamed Ba ...
, appointed Bishop of Votuporanga, São Paulo in 2015


References


External links


GCatholic.org



Diocese website (Portuguese)
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