Emilio J. M. de Carvalho is a retired Angolan Bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected to that office in 1972. Emilio was born August 3, 1933 in , Malanje, Angola. Carvalho earned his B.D in December 1958 at the Faculdade de Teologia da Igreja Methodista in São Paulo, Brazil. At the same time, he served as the assistant pastor for two local churches. Carvalho later earned a M.A. degree from Northwestern University (June 1960). Carvalho was ordained a deacon in The Methodist Church on June 3, 1960 by Bishop H.C. Northcott at the Wisconsin Annual Conference.