the Richest Preachers Of All Time
“I always compare pimps to preachers. They wear alligator shoes, flashy suits, diamond rings, drive Cadillacs. And they sell you something you don’t need. The preacher says, “I know God a little bit better than you. If you pay me, I’ll hook you up.””
List of preachers in top photo (left to right, top to bottom).
After intensive searches on the web, I’ve limited the below list to the over $25 Million net worth preachers / televangelists.
I will keep the Pope himself and the Indu gurus for another article.
As you will see below and in my following articles, there is endless amounts of Money made by charismatic leaders all across the world.
22- Pastor Ray Macaulay
- Net Worth $25 Million
- South Africa
21- Rick Warren
- Net Worth $25 Million
- America
20- Billy Graham
- Net Worth $25 Million
- America
19- Joyce Meyer
- Net Worth over $25 Million
- America
18- Creflo Dollar
- Net Worth $27 Million
- America
- Prosperity Theology
17- Pastor Tshifinwa Irene
- Net Worth $35 Million
- South Africa
16- E.A. Adeboye
- Net Worth $39 Million
- Nigeria
Has 14,000 churches in Nigeria alone.
15- Joel Osteen
- Net Worth $40 Million
- America
- Prosperity Theology
14- Benny Hinn
- Net Worth $42 Million
- America
- Faith healer
- Net Worth over $50 Million
- Nigeria
- Faith healer
Nigerian preacher pulling big Money out of his poor community.
12- Prophet Uebert Angel
- Net Worth $60 Million
- Zimbabwe
11- Paul & Jan Crouch
- Net Worth $100 Million
- America
10- Peter Popoff
- Net Worth $100 Million
- America
- Fraudulent faith healer and self-proclaimed prophet
- Net Worth $100 Million
- America
- Prosperity Theology
- Net Worth $100 Million
- America
- Conservative Christianity
There is some speculations that Pat Robertson net worth could be as high as a Billion dollars. He is a shrewd business man who invest where the Money is.
7- Bishop Ayodele Oritsejafor
- Net Worth $120 Million
- Nigeria
- Net Worth $130 Millions
- Nigeria
- Net Worth $147 Million
- America
- Prosperity Theology
4- Prophet Shepherd Bushiri
- Net Worth $150 Million
- Net Worth over $150 Million
- Nigeria
A veritable feat if you take for grant that the average annual income in Nigeria is $730.
Almost 55 percent of Nigeria’s citizens live below the poverty level on under $2 a day. Nigeria has a population of 168,833,776 people. It seem that every people in Nigeria gave him one dollar.
Nigerian people are known to be very spiritual and as having the inate habit to attribute everything to miracles and spirituality. Which make them the perfect audience for charismatic and greedy preachers.
2- Kenneth Copeland
- Net Worth $760 Million
- America
- Prosperity Theology
1- Edir Macedo
- Net Worth $1.1 Billion
- Brazil
- Prosperity Theology
“Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wanted to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.”
Sources and interesting links:
http://www.etinside.com/?p=11679
http://rare.us/story/exposed-creflo-dollar-and-7-other-black-pastors-whose-net-worth-is-200-times-greater-than-their-flocks/
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Wolves/greedy.htm
http://www.inplainsite.org/html/tele-evangelist_lifestyles.html
http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/interviews/a23972/ice-t-interview/
http://kenraggio.blogspot.ca/2014/06/a-word-about-tv-preachers.html
https://biblicalproof.wordpress.com/2013/09/10/preaching-for-the-money/
http://www.lawrencewilson.com/4-types-of-preachers-which-style-are-you/
http://celebritynetworths.org/pope-francis-net-worth/
http://gazettereview.com/2016/02/richest-pastors-in-world/
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https://constative.com/celebrity/top-10-richest-pastors-in-world
http://dustoffthebible.com/Blog-archive/2015/10/28/15-religious-leaders-that-make-more-money-getting-out-of-bed-than-youll-make-all-year/
http://www.reviewcious.com/celebrities/richest-pastors-in-the-world.html
https://pastormikesays.wordpress.com/2014/01/20/forbes-ranks-the-10-wealthiest-pastors-of-the-world-wow/
https://world.wng.org/2009/11/base_royalties
http://www.cedricstudio.com/personal/copeland.html
http://buzztache.com/how-the-richest-religious-leaders-live/