Emílio de Carvalho

Emilio J. M. de Carvalho is a retired Angolan Bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected to that office in 1972.

Emilio was born August 3, 1933, in Quiongua, Malanje, Angola. Carvalho earned his B.D in December 1958 at the Faculdade de Teologia da Igreja Methodista in São Paulo, Brazil. At the same time, he served as the assistant pastor for two local churches. Carvalho later earned a M.A. degree from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary and Northwestern University (June 1960). Carvalho was ordained a deacon in The Methodist Church on June 3, 1960, by Bishop H.C. Northcott at the Wisconsin Annual Conference. He was the first indigenous Angolan to achieve that level of theological education. The Rev. de Carvalho returned to Angola and was appointed pastor of the Central Methodist Church in Luanda.

The Angolan War of Independence against colonial rule by Portugal began in early 1961. Carvalho was imprisoned by the colonial secret police from April 1961 to August 1963. The 1988 General Conference approved creating Africa University, and classes began in 1992. Carvalho formally retired on September 1, 2000.