Ordinaries ;Bishops • Jaime Luiz Coelho (3 December 1956 – 16 October 1979
see below) ;Archbishops • Jaime Luiz Coelho (
see above 16 October 1979 – 7 May 1997) •
Murilo Sebastião Ramos Krieger,
S.C.J. (7 May 1997 – 20 February 2002), appointed, Archbishop of Florianópolis, Santa Catarina •
João Braz de Aviz (17 July 2002 – 18 January 2004), appointed, Archbishop of Brasília, Distrito Federal; future Cardinal • Anuar Battisti (29 September 2004 – 20 November 2019) •
Severino Clasen, O.F.M. (1 July 2020 – )
Other priests of this diocese who became bishops •
Edmar Perón, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of São Paulo in 2009 •
Bruno Elizeu Versari, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Campo Mourão, Parana in 2017 ==Suffragan dioceses==