Speaker Profile
Davi Charles Gomes
About Davi Charles Gomes
The Rev. Dr. Davi Charles Gomes was installed as International Director of WRF in October 2017, at the Wittenberg meeting of the Board. Before transitioning full-time into his role at WRF in the beginning of 2020, he was Chancellor of Mackenzie Presbyterian University, a 50k student educational institution, present in 6 locations of Brazil, and one of the foremost private universities in this country.
Davi also presided the Andrew Jumper Presbyterian Graduate School of Theology (CPAJ) of the Presbyterian Church of Brazil from 2004 through 2013 and still teaches some modules in their graduate programs. He holds degrees from the University of Massachusetts at Boston (B.A.), The Theological Seminary of the Reformed Episcopal Church (Dip.Th. and M.Div.), Westminster Theological Seminary (Ph.D.) and courses at the Philadelphia Lutheran Theological Seminary and the University of Geneva.
Dr. Gomes was ordained and spent the first ten years of his ministry in the PCA, serving in the Boston area, where he was also the Operations Manager and later a member of the Board of Directors of the Emmanuel Gospel Center, as well as a founding board member of the Boston Christian Economic Coalition. He is also the president of the Commission on Inter-Ecclesiastical Relations of the Presbyterian Church of Brazil (CRIE-IPB) and a representative of the Presbyterian Church of Brazil at WRF, as well as an individual member of WRF. Dr. Gomes has participated on the Edwards Project Committee, served as Co-Chairman of the Theological Education Commission, has represented WRF at the International Council for Evangelical Theological Education (ICETE) and has been on the Executive Committee of the WRF since 2010.
He has pastored and planted churches in the USA (Boston and Philadelphia) and in Brazil, and is presently the senior minister of the Igreja Presbiteriana Paulistana, a church in downtown Sao Paulo that was planted under his Leadership. He has published several books, articles and contributions to books in English as well as Portuguese. Besides having taught at institutions in the USA (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and Reformed Theological Seminary) and Brazil, Dr. Gomes has also lectured in countries throughout Latin America, Africa, Asia, Oceania and Europe. He lives in Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil, with his wife, Adriana Heringer Gomes and their twin adult sons.