José dos Santos Garcia S.M.P. (16 April 1913 – 11 December 2010) was a Portuguese bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. At the age of 97, he was one of the oldest Roman Catholic bishops and the oldest Portuguese bishop at the time of his death.

Garcia was born in Aldeia do Souto, Portugal in 1913. He was ordained a priest on 25 June 1938 for the Missionários da Boa Nova. He was appointed bishop to Port Amelia, Mozambique on 5 April 1957 and consecrated on 16 June 1957. He resigned from the position on 15 January 1975 just before Mozambique became independent from Portugal.

José dos Santos Garcia

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1913 births

2010 deaths

Portuguese Roman Catholic bishops in Africa

20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Mozambique

Participants in the Second Vatican Council

Roman Catholic bishops of Pemba

José dos Santos Garcia