José Ornelas Carvalho, SCJ (born 5 January 1954) is a Portuguese prelate of the Catholic Church who has been bishop of Leiria-Fátima since 2022.

[2] He was ordained priest on 9 August 1981, in his hometown of Porto da Cruz, in a ceremony presided by Maurílio de Gouveia,[3] then Titular Archbishop of Mitylene.

[2] He was appointed Bishop of Setúbal on 24 August 2015, by Pope Francis, succeeding Gilberto Canavarro dos Reis; he received his episcopal consecration on 25 October 2015 from the Patriarch of Lisbon Manuel Clemente in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Grace, in Setúbal.

[6] In October 2022, it was reported that José Ornelas is being investigated by the Portuguese Attorney General's Office on suspicion of "participation in the cover-up" of cases of sexual abuse of minors.

The case allegedly happened in 2011, in Mozambique, when José Ornelas was a high-ranking representative of the Dehonians (Congregation of Priests of the Sacred Heart of Jesus), a congregation to which the priest who ran the orphanage where the abuse allegedly occurred belonged.