List Of The Richest Pastors Worldwide

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 worshipers
on Sundays.