Eugenio Duarte

[1][2] Born in Cape Verde, Duarte was the first African elected to the General Superintendency in the Church of the Nazarene.

[4] Duarte was elected June 30, 2009 at the 27th General Assembly of the Church of the Nazarene (in Orlando, Florida).

When Cape Verde received its independence from Portugal, the new government asked Duarte to go to Moscow to study electrical engineering.

He also received an honorary Doctorate degree in 2009 from Africa Nazarene University, in Nairobi Kenya.

He was ordained at the Cape Verde District Assembly in 1981 by general superintendent Orville Jenkins.