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Roberto de Lucena

Brazilian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionApr 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ24035071 ↗
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Roberto de Lucena (born 18 April 1966) is a Brazilian evangelical pastor, writer, and politician affiliated with the Republicanos party

Personal life

He is the son of Antonio Vieira de Lucena and Eunice Alves de Lucena. In addition to being a politician, de Lucena is a writer and a pastor of the Igreja Evangélica Pentecostal O Brasil Para Cristo.

Religious Involvement

Graduated in Religious studies from the Ecumenical Institute of Higher Education in 1999, Lucena is a pastor of the Evangelical Pentecostal Church "Brazil for Christ." He served as president of the church in Arujá from 1991 to 2010 and of the Supreme Council of the Brazil for Christ Church from 1999 to 2005. He also held positions in the National Council of Pastors of Brazil, the Bible Society of Brazil, and the National Christian Front for Social and Political Action. He is the author of the book Faith, Work, and Hope, published in 2018.

Political career

On 17 April 2016, he voted in favor of the impeachment proceedings against Dilma Rousseff. During Michel Temer's administration, he supported the Constitutional Amendment Bill on the Public Spending Cap. In April 2017, he opposed the Labor Reform. In August 2017, he voted against the motion to open an investigation into then-president Michel Temer, contributing to the shelving of the charges brought by the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office.

Throughout his three terms, Roberto de Lucena served as president of the Brazil–United Nations Parliamentary Support Group (GPONU); vice president of the Tourism Committee in the Chamber of Deputies; member of the Parliamentary Front for Tourism in the National Congress; Secretary for Transparency of the Chamber of Deputies; and chaired the Standing Committee on Financial Oversight and Control.

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“Roberto de Lucena” enters the record as brazilian politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Roberto, Lucena and Brazilian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Roberto de Lucena” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.