Portuguese: Benedito Domingos Coscia, (10 August 1922 − 30 April 2008) was an American Friar Minor and a Catholic bishop.
He was born Vito Coscia in Brooklyn, New York, in 1922 and baptized at the Church of Our Lady, Help of Christians, on Staten Island.
[2] After his ordination, Coscia immediately volunteered to serve in the missions being established in South America by his province.
From 1957 to 1961 he then served as a pastor, high school teacher and the Guardian of the community of Friars Minor in Pires do Rio.
He worked hard in the social arena, especially health care, personally driving a health van mobile unit himself to the rural zones of his diocese, as well as supervising the establishment and operation of orphanages and daycare centers.