This is a list of the richest pastors worldwide.
1. Bishop T. D Jakes:
Bishop Jakes lives in a $1,700,000 mansion, he has been called
America's best preacher and has been featured on the cover of TIME
magazine. He is a writer, preacher and movie producer. Thomas Dexter "T.
D." Jakes, Sr. is the bishop/chief pastor of The Potter's House, a
non-denominational American mega church, with 30,000 members, located in
Dallas, Texas. T.D Jakes wears custom made suits and sports a diamond
ring the size of a coin. This man of God has been endowed with a $150
million net worth.
2. Bishop David Oyedepo:
Bishop David Oyedepo is a Nigerian Preacher, Christian Author, Founder
and Presiding Bishop of Winners Chapel known as Living Faith Church
World Wide. Has been hailed as the wealthiest preacher in Nigeria with a
total net worth of $150 million and properties like 4 private jets and
homes in the United States and England. After the foundation of the
Living Faith Outreach Ministry in 1981, it has evolved to be one of the
largest congregations in Africa and has a flourishing mission in
Nairobi.
3. E A Adeboye: This
messenger of God was listed in an African magazine, NEWSWEEK, as the
most powerful man in Africa and one of the top 50 global power elites in
2008/2009, among others such as President Barack Obama and Nicolas
Sarkozy. Pastor Adeboye heads the Redeemed Christian Church of God
(RCCG), something he has done for the last 28years.Amongst his
posessions are private jets.
4. Benny Hinn:
Israeli televangelist,Toufik Benedictus “Benny” Hinn has an estimated
net worth of $42 million. He is best known for his regular “Miracle
Crusades” – revival meeting/faith healing summits that are usually held
in large stadiums in major cities, which are later broadcast worldwide
on his television program, “This Is Your Day”. Hinn was born on December
3, 1952.
5. Chris Oyakhilome:
This is the man behind Believers’ Loveworld Ministries, a.k.a Christ
Embassy.His church has an estimated net worth of $30 million – $50
million last year, the charismatic preacher was at the center of a $35
million money laundering case in which he was accused of siphoning funds
from his church to foreign banks.
6. Creflo Dollar:
American Bible teacher, pastor, and the founder of World Changers
Church International, Creflo Dollar, has an estimated net worth of $27
million. As his name suggests, this preacher’s “manna” comes in form of
the green buck.
7. Kenneth Copeland: He runs
Kenneth Copeland Ministries, was one of several televangelists whose
finances were investigated from 2007 to 2011 by Republican Sen. Charles
Grassley of Iowa.
According to an article by the Associated Press
that ran in 2008, "His ministry's 1,500-acre campus, behind an iron
gate a half-hour drive from Fort Worth includes a church, a private
airstrip, a hangar for the ministry's $17.5 million jet and other
aircraft, and a $6 million church owned lakefront mansion.
The
article later added that while Copeland has not released up-to-date
salary statements, "the church disclosed in a property-tax exemption
application that his wages were $364,577 in 1995; Copeland's wife,
Gloria, earned $292,593. It's not clear whether those figures include
other earnings, such as special offerings for guest preaching or book
royalties.”
8. Billy Graham:
American evangelical Christian evangelist, William Franklin “Billy”
Graham, Jr., has a net worth of $25 million. The Southern Baptist
evangelist rose to celebrity status as his sermons started getting
broadcast on radio and television. Graham was born on a dairy farm near
Charlotte, North Carolina in 1918, he has conducted many evangelistic
crusades since 1948 . He is now a world renowned televangelist raking in
millions of dollars.
9. Matthew Ashimolowo:
Ashimolowo, the owner of Kingsway International Christian Centre (KICC)
gets an annual income of $200,000. Having his humble beginnings as a
priest in Foursquare Gospel Church, a Nigerian church that sent
Ashimolowo to open a satellite branch in London. Pastor Matthew had
other ideas and decided to set up his own church instead. Today, his
Kingsway International Christian Center is reportedly the largest
Pentecostal church in the whole of the United Kingdom.
10. Temitope Joshua:
Synagogue Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) has an estimated net worth: $10
million – $15 million Nigeria’s most controversial clergyman is also
one of its richest and most philanthropic. T.B Joshua heads the
Synagogue Church of all Nations (SCOAN), a congregation he founded in
1987, which accommodates over 15,000 worshippers on Sundays.
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