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Neldrizzy:
Here’s another list put together by richlifestyle.com of the richestPastors in the world and Nigeria’s Bishop David Oyedeporanks number one with a whooping $150million net worth. The list also shockingly boasts of 4 other Nigerian pastors.
A pastoris an ordained leader of a Christian congregation. Many pastors worldwide are serving humanity by providing guidance to people belonging to the community. Some of them have become very rich through their churches and other investments. These millionaire men of God are known all over the world.
Here is the top 10 richestpastors in the world as of 2014.

10) Joseph Prince – Net worth: $5 Million (Singapore)
Annual salary of this Singaporean pastoris $550,000. PastorJoseph Prince is the senior pastorof the New Creation Church in Singapore. The New Creation Church’s financial income was reported at $44.7 million US dollars in 2008. He hosts a religious program called “Destined to Reign.” He has addressed many congregations worldwide.

9) Chris Okotie– Net worth: $10 Million (Nigeria)
Chris Okotiewas a pop musician in the 1980s. He embraced the Bible and set up the Household of God Church, one of Nigeria’s most flamboyant congregations. He is an automobile lover and owns several posh cars which include a Mercedes S600, Rolls-Royce, Hummer and Porsche.

8. ) Matthew Ashimolowo – Net worth: $10 Million (Nigeria)
Matthew Ashimolowo’s Kingsway International Christian Center is the largest Pentecostal church in the United Kingdom. It has assets worth more than $40 million and earns profit of more than $10 million.

7) T.B. Joshua– Net worth: $15 Million (Nigeria)
Prophet Temitope Balogun Joshua is Nigeria’s most powerful, controversial and philanthropic preacher. He heads the Synagogue Church of all Nations (SCOAN), a congregation he founded in 1987. The christian minister, televangelist and faith healer is a big giver; his humanitarian works include education, healthcare and rehabilitation programs. He is the owner of Emmanuel TV, a Christian television network.

6) T. D. Jakes – Net worth: $18 Million (United States)
Bishop T. D. Jakes is the apostle/bishop of The Potter’s House, a non-denominational American mega-church that has over 30,000 members. His ministry’s annual revival MegaFest draws more than 100,000 people.

5) Billy Graham– Net worth: $25 Million (United States)
Billy Grahamis a southern Baptist. He earned celebrity status when his sermons were broadcast on radio and TV stations all over the USA. He founded the Billy GrahamEvangelist Association in 1950.

4) Creflo Dollar– Net worth: $27 Million (United States)
This American televangelist, pastoris also a Word of Faith teacher. He is a founder of the non-denominational World Changers Church International. He has built a multimillion dollar ministry on the message “It is the will of God for you to prosper in every way.”

3) Benny Hinn– Net worth: $42 Million (United States)
This Israeli-American televangelist earned wealththrough his ministry and evangelical program. He is well-known for his regular miracle healing crusades, which are held in large stadiums in major cities and broadcasted in the TV.

2) Chris Oyakhilome– Net worth: $50 Million (Nigeria)
Chris Oyakhilome’s church Christ Embassy has more than 40,000 members, several of whom are successful entrepreneurs and politicians. This pastor’s diversified interests include magazines, newspapers, a TV station, a record label, hotels, satellite TV and real estate.

1) David Oyedepo– Net worth: $150 Million (Nigeria)
Bishop David Oyedepois the richest pastorin Nigeria and the world. He is the founder of the Living Faith World Outreach Ministry. Ever since he founded this ministry in 1981, it has grown to become one of Africa’s largest congregations. He hosts three services every Sunday in The Faith Tabernacle. This prosperous pastorowns private jets and homes in the US and the UK.



Source http://www.36ng.com.ng/2014/10/08/top-10-richest-pastors-in-the-world-2014-bishop-oyedepo-rev-chris-oyakhilome-rank-number-1-2/

ur data is half truth...wat abt papa Adeboye, pst kenneth copeland and Yongi cho?

daresma93:
Can we meet after lecture today like say I b scarce comodity

leshluap:
Dat number 10 jst gt me laughing

1]. Are U a player? - Yes CHELSEA FC wants tosign me next season* do they expect U 2 say yes?

2]. why do U wan't my Pin??- want to use it to burst balloon.

3]. Can U die 4 me?- My name is surely not Romeo

4]. My Bis will soon expire, what am i going todo?- Return the BB to the seller and get a Nokia33105].

5.If I sleep over in your Place, hope Nothingfunny will happen?- No,trust me we would just perform night vigil

6].Hope U won't break my Heart?- If u don't put it at the edge of the table...

7]. Can U take me out?- sorry are U in prison?

8]. Pls come and pick me..- like say she be beans.

9]. I think i've missed my period..- then ask the class captain for the next class!!!

10.] Can't you get a Car?- Did your father have a car when he was in college?
...FEEL FREE TO ADD URS... LETS GET THE BALL ROLLING

According to one traditional account, the original people and founders of the Benin Empire, the Bini, were initially ruled by the Ogisos (Kings of the Sky). The city of Ubini (later called Benin City) was founded in 1180 AD.

About 36 known Ogiso are accounted for as rulers of the empire. One oral tradition states that during the reign the last Ogiso, his son and heir apparent Ekaladerhan was banished from Benin as a result of one of the Queens changing a message from the oracle to the Ogiso. Prince Ekaladerhan was a powerful warrior and well loved. On leaving Benin he travelled in a westerly direction to the land of the Yoruba. At that time the Ifá oracle said that the Yoruba people of Ile Ife (also known as Ife) will be ruled by a man who would come out of the forest. Following Ekaladerhans arrival at the Yoruba city of Ife also known as Ile Ife, he finally rose to the position of the Oba (meaning 'king' or 'ruler' in the Yoruba language) and later received the title of Ooni of Ife. He changed his name to 'Izoduwa,' (which in his native language meant, 'I have chosen the path of prosperity') and became The great Oduduwa, also known as Odudua, Oòdua and Eleduwa, of the Yoruba. On the death of his father, the last Ogiso, a group of Benin Chiefs led by Chief Oliha came to Ife, pleading with Oba (King) Oduduwa to return to Benin to ascend the throne. Oduduwa's reply was that a ruler cannot leave his domain but he had seven sons and would ask one of them to go back to Benin to become the next King.

Note: there are other versions of the story of Oduduwa. Many Yoruba often attribute Oduduwa as coming from a place towards the east of the land of the Yoruba peoples, however it tends not to be attributed to Benin City.

Oranyan (also known as Oranmiyan), one of the sons of Oduduwa and son of Oduduwa's Yoruba wife Okanbi, agreed to go to Benin. He spent some years in Benin before returning to the Yoruba lands before establishing his own Yoruba kingdom at Oyo. It is said that he left the place in anger and called it 'Ile Ibinu' (meaning, 'land of annoyance and vexation) and it was this phrase that became the origin of Benin city's former name 'Ubini'. Oranmiyan, on his way home to Ife, stopped briefly at Ego, where he impregnated Princess Erimwinde, the daughter of the Enogie of Ego and she gave birth to a son named Eweka.

During Oba Oduduwas reign as Alaafin of Oyo, Eweka became the oba at Ile Ibinu. Oba Ewedo, an ancestor of Oba Ewaka I, changed the name of the city of Ile Ibinu to Ubini, which the Portuguese, in their own language, corrupted it to Benin or Bini. In 1440, Oba Ewuare, also known as 'Ewuare the Great', came to power and turned the city-state into an empire. Around 1470, he named the new state Edo.



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Golden Age

The Oba had become the paramount power within the region. Oba Ewuare, the first Golden Age Oba, is credited with turning Benin City into a military fortress protected by moats and walls. It was from this bastion that he launched his military campaigns and began the expansion of the kingdom from the Edo-speaking heartlands.

Oba Ewuare was a direct descendant of Oduduwa, the first Oni of Ife. Oduduwa was considered divine according to some legends the god Oduduwa descended to Ife (the center of all creation) and became it's first Oni or ruler. Other legends say he came from Mecca or Egypt. a series of walls marked the incremental growth of the sacred city from 850 CE until it's decline in the 16th century. In the 15th century Benin became the greatest city of the empire created by Oba or king Ewuare. To enclose his palace he commanded the building of Benin's inner wall, a seven mile (11 km) long earthen rampart girded by a moat 50 feet (15 m) deep. This was excavated in the early 1960s by Graham Connah. Connah estimated that it's construction if spread out over 5 dry seasons would have required a workforce of 1,00 laborers working 10 hours a day 7 days a week. Ewuare also added great thoroughfares and erected 9 fortified gateways. Excavations also uncovered a rural network of earthen walls 4 to 8 thousand miles long that would have taken an estimated 150 million man hours to build and must have taken hundreds of years to build. these were apparently thrown down to mark out territories for towns and cities. 13 years after Ewuare's death tales of Benin's splendors lured the Portuguese traders to the city gates.[2]

At its maximum extent the empire is claimed by the Edos to have extended from the Igbo kingdom of Onitsha in the east of Nigeria, through parts the southwestern region of Nigeria, Modern day Benin Republic, Togo, and into the present-day nation of Ghana. The Ga peoples of Ghana trace their ancestry to the ancient Kingdom of Benin.

The state developed an advanced artistic culture especially in its famous artifacts of bronze, iron and ivory. These include bronze wall plaques and life-sized bronze heads of the Obas of Benin. The most common artifact is based on Queen Idia, now best known as the FESTAC Mask after it was used in 1977 in the logo of the Nigeria-financed and hosted Second Festival of Black & African Arts and Culture (FESTAC 77).

rattlesnake:
Ote Call ur own mechanic na let him build it

...even the richest man in ur village cannot do 1/100th of what Oyedepo has done

enemy of progress

God bless you rattle snake....not even in nthe history of his community

unyours:
Jehovah witnesses no doubt practise the truest of Christianity. One thing i don't like about them is they are filled with pride and boast like kokolet007 and hold useless arguments like no.6 on the list, birthdays & birth of Christ, death of Christ on Stake, etc. They claim they preach but only to those who already know about Christ whilst they skip your doorstep if you are a muslim. They are very arrogant too for they don't even wanna give ears to a word from other Christian preachers.

true word

paulGrundy:
I asked you a question and you are refering me your website, you didn't even post the link to the answer.

Am not clicking on that site.

Beehshorp:
our choir was superb toda so during gospel acclamation they sang "alleluia to the lord God ominipotent reigneth " then at the end
the preist was like " there is no word like ominipotent but omnipotent" and d congregation was like boo boo to the choir

tweetobyte post=/post/26830610:
Is shareful the past tense of cheerful?

hahahahah

Yomieluv post=/post/26822651:
Being a police will be sweet there,after the day's work,just cruise the car to flex with your babe.

That's what I call official flexing.

must they cheat us in evry thing? even our position as d num 1 most corupt nation they wont giv it 2 uz? haba mallam

dytbabe: She didn't reply first time
10th time
Leave her na
Haba
*frowns*