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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