The Roman Catholic Diocese of Lorena () is a diocese located in the city of Lorena, São Paulo, in the ecclesiastical province of Aparecida in Brazil.
On Tuesday, 18 August 2012, the then-Bishop of Lorena, Bishop Benedito Beni dos Santos, was named by Pope Benedict XVI to serve as one of the papally-appointed Synod Fathers for the October 2012 13th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the New Evangelization.
History
Leadership
- Bishops of Lorena (Roman rite), listed in reverse chronological order
- Bishop Joaquim Wladimir Lopes Dias (13 January 2021 â present)
- Bishop João Inácio Müller, O.F.M. (25 September 2013 â 15 May 2019); formerly, Minister Provincial for the Franciscans in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; appointed Archbishop of Campinas, São Paulo
- Bishop Benedito Beni dos Santos (26 April 2006 â 25 September 2013)
- Bishop Eduardo Benes de Sales Rodrigues (10 January 2001 â 4 May 2005), appointed Archbishop of Sorocaba, São Paulo)
- Bishop João Hipólito de Morais (11 July 1977 â 10 January 2001)
- Bishop Antônio Afonso de Miranda, S.D.N. (3 November 1971 â 11 July 1977), appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Campanha, Minas Gerais
- Bishop Cândido Rubens PadÃÂn, O.S.B. (3 January 1966 â 27 April 1970), appointed Bishop of Bauru, São Paulo
- Bishop José Melhado Campos (29 May 1960 â 22 February 1965), appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Sorocaba
- Bishop LuÃÂs Gonzaga Peluso (13 June 1946 â 25 July 1959), appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Sorocaba
- Bishop Francisco do Borja Pereira do Amaral (21 December 1940 â 3 October 1944), appointed Bishop of Taubaté, São Paulo
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