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About Roberto Valenzuela Elphick
- Roberto Valenzuela Elphick was a British-Chilean Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1936.
- He was born 29 August 1873 in Antofagasta, Chile.
- He was the son of a British nitrate producer, Donald E.
- Elphick, and Tomasa Valenzuela, a Chilean Roman Catholic.
- Roberto was converted to the Evangelical Church by reading a New Testament given him by a Methodist Sunday School teacher, Mina Fawcett.
- Later his father, mother, and most of his brothers were also converted. Roberto joined the Presbyterian Church, and was ordained a minister in 1897.
- He transferred to the Chile Annual Conference of the M.E.
- Church in 1906.
- Prior to his election to the Episcopacy, Roberto served as a Pastor, Educator, and Evangelist.
- He was a delegate to the International Missionary Conference in Jerusalem, 1928.
- He was elected bishop in Buenos Aires, and was consecrated to that office in Columbus, Ohio.
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