Haroldo Dutra Dias

Haroldo Dutra Dias (born 20 September 1971) is a Brazilian spiritist speaker, writer, translator, neuroscientist, and jurist. He is currently a judge at the Court of Justice of Minas Gerais. He is considered one of the greatest disseminators of the Spiritist doctrine in the 21st century. He obtained a Master's degree in Neuroscience from UFMG in 2022 and a Doctorate from the same university in 2024.

At the age of 15, Haroldo Dias participated in the study of the Gospel, Genesis and the Apocalypse at the Emmanuel Spiritist Group, in Belo Horizonte, with Honório Onofre Abreu. In 2011, in partnership with record producer Júlio Adriano Corradi and cinematographer Thiago Franklin, Dias founded the Instituto SER, with the aim of "promotion and literary, intellectual and artistic dissemination of the Spiritist doctrine". In March 2013, Haroldo was one of the founders of the Center for Study and Research of the Gospel (NEPE), within the Brazilian Spiritist Federation (FEB).

In 2010, at the III Brazilian Spiritist Congress, the International Spiritist Council launched Haroldo Dias' translation of the four canonical gospels and the Acts of the Apostles, called O Novo Testamento (Evangelhos e Atos). In 2013, Haroldo Dias granted the copyright and property rights of his work to the FEB, which launched a new edition of O Novo Testamento (Evangelhos e Atos) in April of the same year.

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