Elias Gabriel Galvan - Ordained Ministry

Ordained Ministry

Elias was ordained a Deacon and became a Probationary Member of the Southern California-Arizona Conference of the Methodist Church in 1964. He was received into Full Connection and ordained an Elder in 1970. As a Pastor, Rev. Galvan served the following appointments in the Southern California-Arizona Conference: Asbury Church (Associate) and as Pastor of the City Terrace Church, and of the Church of All Nations in Los Angeles. He then served as Director of Ethnic Planning and Strategy (1971-74). He then was appointed Superintendent of the Santa Barbara District (1974-79, also serving two years as Dean of the Cabinet). He became the Conference Council Director in 1980, which position he held until elected to the Episcopacy in 1984.