Paulo Romeiro

Who is Paulo Romeiro?

Paulo Rodrigues Romeiro is a Brazilian Christian apologist and pastor. Formerly the president of the Instituto Cristão de Pesquisas, he is the chairman of the Agência de Informações Religiosas in São Paulo. He works closely with The Centers for Apologetics Research. He is also a noted member of the Christian countercult movement.

Paulo Romeiro was raised as a Catholic and Spiritist and became Protestant in the 1970s. In 1978 he took a degree in journalism and went to the U.S. to study in the Ministry School sponsored by Pentecostal evangelist Morris Cerullo. He earned a master's degree at the Melodyland School of Theology and later earned a master's degree in theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Romeiro was ordained a minister of the Gospel by the Southern California District Council of the Assemblies of God in 1984. He developed many evangelistic works and returned to Brazil in 1988. In 2004 he received a doctorate in Science of Religion from the Methodist University of São Paulo.

During the time he was associated with ICP, he co-authored the book Desmascarando as Seitas with Natanael Rinaldi. In 1996 he left ICP and started AGIR.