Orlando Costas

Orlando Enrique Costas (15 June 1942 – 5 November 1987) was a Hispanic evangelical theologian and missiologist.

He moved with his father to the United States, living first in the Bronx and then Bridgeport, CT.

He finished his high school years at Bob Jones Academy and studied at the Missionary College of Nyack.

at the Free University of Amsterdam, writing on "Theology of the Crossroads in Contemporary Latin America: Missiology in Mainline Protestantism, 1969-1974" under Johannes Verkuyl.

[1] Costas became a major figure in the Latin American Theological Fellowship and the Lausanne movement, advocating for a holistic mission which brought together evangelism with social activism.