Helio R. Camargo

Helio da Rocha Camargo was a Brazilian religious leader who served as the first Brazilian general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was called to the First Quorum of the Seventy in 1985 and served there for four years. In 1989, he was transferred, along with other limited-term members of the First Quorum of the Seventy to the newly created Second Quorum of the Seventy. Camargo was released as a general authority in 1990.
Camargo was born in Resende, state of Rio de Janeiro. He entered a military academy in 1943 and he advanced to the rank of captain in the Brazilian military before his retirement.
Camargo married Nair Belmira de Gouveia in 1948 and they had six children. They served together as temple president|president