Elias Gabriel Galvan (born 9 April 1938) is a Mexican-American former Bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 1984.
Galvan was born into a Methodist parsonage in San Juan Acozac, Puebla, Mexico.
Elias married Zoraida Freytes (a native of Puerto Rico, also raised in a United Methodist parsonage) 12 July 1986.
Galvan was ordained a deacon and became a Probationary Member of the Southern California-Arizona Conference of the Methodist Church in 1964.
He then was appointed superintendent of the Santa Barbara District (1974–79, also serving two years as dean of the cabinet).
He was assigned to the Phoenix Episcopal Area (Desert Southwest Annual Conference), which was formed by the Jurisdiction in 1984.