Luis Mário de Souza Pinto

Vice President and Director of Religious Liberty, Seventh-day Adventist Church, South American Division
Luis Mário de Souza Pinto studied theology at the Northeast Adventist Teaching Institute (IAENE), currently Adventist Faculty of Bahia (FADBA), graduating in 1990. He completed a master’s in theology in 2000 at the Adventist University of São Paulo (UNASP) and began a master’s in leadership in 2014 (incomplete). He was a district pastor for ten years in Rio de Janeiro and Curitiba. He then served as an administrator for the Adventist Church for ten years in Curitiba, Brazil; Bolivia; and Espírito Santo, Brazil. He is currently one of two vice presidents of the South American Division of the Adventist Church and director of religious liberty.