General Convention of the Assemblies of God in Brazil

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The General Convention of the Assemblies of God in Brazil (Portuguese: Convenção Geral das Assembleias de Deus no Brasil) is a Pentecostal Christian denomination in Brazil. It is part of the Assemblies of God network (Assembleias de Deus no Brasil) and has its headquarters in Rio de Janeiro. It began from the missionary work of Daniel Berg and Gunnar Vingren, Swedish Pentecostal missionaries who arrived in Belém in 1910, and the denomination was officially founded in 1930. By 2003 it reported about 280,000 churches and 3.5 million members; by 2013 it claimed around 12 million members, making it the largest Assembly of God convention in Brazil. In 2017, about 10,000 churches left to form the Convention of the Assembly of God in Brazil, due to leadership concerns and the prohibition of women pastors.