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José Bezerra Coutinho (February 7 1910 – November 7 2008) was a Brazilian bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. At the age of 98 he was the sixth-oldest bishop in the Catholic Church and oldest Brazilian bishop. Coutinho was born in Capistrano in the state of Ceará in 1910. He was ordained a priest on December 3 1933 then appointed auxiliary bishop of Sobral Ceará on August 4 1956.