Ozani Farias

Ozani Farias is a General Authority Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. At the time of his call to be a General Authority, Elder Farias was serving as president of the Georgia Atlanta Mission.

Farias was born in Recife, Brazil, on October 19, 1969. He received a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the Catholic University of Pernambuco in 1995, a postgraduate degree in finance from Pernambuco University, and later received a master’s degree from the Getulio Vargas Foundation. He has worked for the Church since 1995 in various positions, including financial manager, human resources manager, and director of temporal affairs in the Brazil Area.

He and his wife, Giovanna de Medeiros Prata, are the parents of three children.