Marcelo Crivella
| Marcelo Crivella | |
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| 53rd Mayor of Rio de Janeiro | |
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Assumed office January 1, 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Eduardo Paes |
| Senator of the Republic from Rio de Janeiro | |
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In office February 1, 2003 – January 1, 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Artur da Távola |
| Succeeded by | Eduardo Lopes |
| Minister of Fishery and Aquaculture | |
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In office March 2, 2012 – March 17, 2014 |
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| President | Dilma Rousseff |
| Preceded by | Nóbrega de Oliveira |
| Succeeded by | Eduardo Lopes |
| Personal details | |
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October 9, 1957 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Political party | PRB |
| Spouse(s) | Sylvia Jane Hodge |
| Children | 3 |
| Occupation | Evangelical bishop Singer Politician |
| Profession | Engineer |
| Religion | Pentecostal (UCKG) |
| Website | marcelocrivella.com.br |
Marcelo Bezerra Crivella (Portuguese pronunciation: [maʁˈsɛlu biˈzeʁɐ kɾiˈvɛlɐ], Rio de Janeiro, October 9, 1957) is a Brazilian bishop of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God an international evangelical church founded by his uncle Edir Macedo in 1977; a gospel singer, and a politician.
In 2002, Crivella was elected as a federal Senator of Brazil from the state of Rio de Janeiro on a Liberal Party ticket. He has since helped found the Brazilian Republican Party (PRB), which has been allied with President Luís Inácio Lula da Silva. In 2016, Marcelo Crivella won the election for Rio de Janeiro Mayor.
With a Civil Engineering degree from Universidade Santa Ursula, Crivella became known for planning and execution of the Projeto Nordeste, a charitable project to redevelop lands abandoned by the Brazilian federal government in the city of Irecê. The project was developed to use Israeli irrigation practices, which Crivella has observed in his several trips to Israel. It has led to the renewal of agriculture and livestock raising there.
Born in Rio de Janeiro to Catholic parents, Crivella attended the Methodist Church in his youth. His connection with his uncle, Edir Macedo, made them try an unsuccessful commercial partnership, before he was invited in 1977, to work in Macedo's newly founded Universal Church. Soon Crivella became a pastor. He took his family on a mission to Africa in 1992, where he achieved considerable success in planting new UCKG temples, although he spoke no African languages. he became pastor and bishop, having worked ten years diffusing the Universal Church in the African continent.
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