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Roberto Garrido Padin (born 1945 in Brazil) is a bishop of the Independent Catholic Church, based at the church of Santa Barbara in Salvador de Bahia, Northern Brazil. Roberto Garrido Padin was born into a Spanish family. He was ordained priest in 1972 by Bishop Luigi Mascolo of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church, and served as a parish priest and as secretary to the bishop. He was consecrated bishop by Manoel Ceia Laranjeira on 2 May 1989 at Salvador de Bahia. Bishop Manoel Ceia Laranjeira had been consecrated bishop in 1951 by Bishop Salomão Barbosa Ferraz of the Free Catholic Church of Brazil. Bishop Roberto Garrido Padin currently serves as bishop of the Diocese of Salvador de Bahia of the .