[1] Uchôa studied fishing engineering and was converted to Protestant Christianity through the work of Aliança Bíblica Universitária do Brasil, a campus ministry organization.
He and PAES were part of the Fresh Expressions movement, conducting Christian outreach in cafes, museums, beaches and skate parks.
[5] In 2015, an appellate court in Pernambuco ruled that diocesan assets belonged to the IEAB-affiliated rump diocese, resulting in the loss of four churches.
[9] As primate, Uchôa has participated in the 2018 Global Anglican Future Conference in Jerusalem[10] and the 2020 enthronement of Stephen Kaziimba as archbishop of the Church of Uganda.
In 2023, after the Church of England General Synod's vote to welcome blessings of same-sex unions, he signed the Global South statement rejecting the Archbishop of Canterbury's leadership of the Anglican Communion.