Ossesio Silva

Machine-translated from the Portuguese article

Ossesio José da Silva (Rio de Janeiro, December 9, 1954) is a Brazilian religious leader and politician affiliated with Republicanos. In 1980, at the age of 26, he joined the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, where ten years later he was ordained a pastor and a few years later was ordained a bishop. In 2002, in the state of Bahia, Ossesio ran for his first elected office, that of State Deputy, for the PTB, receiving 28,117 votes and becoming an alternate.