Beatriz Ferrari De Arias is a Uruguayan church official. She was president of the Evangelical Methodist Church in Uruguay from 1994 until 2000.

Life

Ferrari worked for three years as a volunteer

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, working with young people in

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. For ten years she then worked as the Secretary for Women and Children Concerns of the

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. As a lay woman, she was elected president of the Methodist Church in Uruguay in 1994, and served as president until 2000.

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