cktheluckyman:


What stupid point are you trying to make? Don't we have protestants who also fight wars? Don't we even have pastors who commit adultery,murders etc in your protestant and even this new age churches? Were this practices part of their church doctrines?

Ain't fighting sir.

Would Jesus have been part of a war? Was he at anytime? Do you recall him being part of the politics of his time? Do you remember his hiding himself when he was to be made a king by force?

Did Jesus celebrate his birth

Answer my questions and stop quarelling

Brymo:
If the God of Ayo Joseph Babalola, shows His finger in your Life, óti pari. That's my cry everyday.

It's no longer ethical to pray in the name of any man of God before getting what you what Why not channel your need to supreme being and with faith its'll work out well.

My opinion though!

ephemm:
Church Business is the Most Lucrative business in Nigeria.

You guys keep saying this! Why not start your own, what are you waiting for?

Elzends:
Catholic Church..
Founder... Jesus Christ.. 2000yrs ago
1st leader.... Saint Peter the apostle
Current leader pope Francis the 1st
Has millions of lay faithfuls all over the world
#proudlycatholic#


Muslims n Anglicans oya add ur own

Blind follower, it's very pathetic that you don't know the history of your church.

Blind followers everywhere!

Handsomecole:
Proudly Roman Catholic, church found by no human other than our Lord Jesus Christ himself with Apostle Peter the Ist Pope. Over 2500 years of existence with unbroken tradition with over 4 billion worshippers around every corner of the Earth.

We are Catholics we are Proud...

Blind followers, go back to your bible, Jesus Christ has never in His life on earth established a church.

hanastazia:
yes oo..I rep celestial too.

I rep cele too bt am nt one of you. During my nysc days, our nccf miango co-ordinator is a cele. He was the one that made me believe that the greatest yardstick used in judging a christian is hie/her life style( self conduct and manner).

bladeAnders:
I am looking forward to a time wen all Christians will WORSHIP under one umbrella of praise.. plenty church, too many confusion

You have insight.

I hope God is still with them, their life is contrary to that of Christ

princetom1:


Thank u o. People don't speak up in this our country, that is why they keep using terms like, DONT JUDGE, DONT SPEAK AGAINST THE ANNOINTED, and so on. If u have eyes and ears but cant see, i wonder what use is it. Even God said, he has put life and death before us, we must choose life, he reiterated.

Who are the anointed? Who anoint them? What oil are they anointed with? v...abi groundnut oil?

Very few in that list are anointed and call by God, majority of them on that list anointed and called themselves to defraud with prosperity messages. I feel like mentioning names but I will not

Did Jesus Christ slap anyone in the bible? Did he support masturbation? Did he publicized his miracles? I thought he always advice those He delivers to go their way and not to tell anyone.

All these thing they are doing there's Godoooooo!

Joseph ayodele Babalola after your depature your name is still proactive to influence a request from God. Baba lola olomiye

heskeyw:

I rep cele too bt am nt one of you. During my nysc days, our nccf miango co-ordinator is a cele. He was the one that made me believe that the greatest yardstick used in judging a christian is hie/her life style( self conduct and manner).

Christianity is supposed to be a way of living? By their fruits ye shall know them

ValentineMary:
All claim to have visions from the same deity yet they have parallel teachings. They buy private jets at the expense of their members suffering. And yet they are celebrated. For what exactly spreding a jewish myth?

And how many of them has a private jet(s)?


Don't meant to disrespect your stand but get your facts right sir..

Ehp 4:4-6
One body, one spirit, one hope, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and father of all......
Christ is the founder of the one true church (church of christ)....so any other founder is fallacy......

Handsomecole:
Proudly Roman Catholic, church found by no human other than our Lord Jesus Christ himself with Apostle Peter the Ist Pope. Over 2500 years of existence with unbroken tradition with over 4 billion worshippers around every corner of the Earth.

We are Catholics we are Proud...

Have you worshipped Mary today?

Brymo:
If the God of Ayo Joseph Babalola, shows His finger in your Life, óti pari. That's my cry everyday.

is his God different ? Not the same biblical God? Explain more please ?

calabardick:


Christianity is supposed to be a way of living? By their fruits ye shall know them

Christianity is nt just a religion, it is a culture.
Its nt achieved by going to church or fellowship, but by your life conduct. How you relate with people and how you relate with God.

walebabs3:
Religion is said to be beliefs people have in God or deities. In the world, Nigerian churches are force to reckon on religious matters.

Churches in Nigeria and their founders have, through deliverance services, evangelism, sermons, out reaches and crusades, brought liberations and solutions to many across the world. This some have adjudged to have aided the Nigerian economy.

Newsmath examines some churches in Nigeria and their founders.

These are list of some churches and their Founders. It also contains the year of establishment, founder and the current general Overseer.


1. Christ Apostolic Church

Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) is the first Aladura Pentecostal church present in Nigeria and other countries. It has come into existence in the first half of the 20th century, in the then-British empire. It was formally established in 1941 after a split from the Apostolic Church which the original Aladura organization (Faith Tabernacle) had invited to Nigeria. Its growth was led by Joseph Ayo Babalola, a road construction driver who became its founder.

♦ Born : April 25, 1904
Odo-Owa, Oke-Afa LGA Kwara State, Nigeria

♦ Died :July 26, 1959 (aged 55)
Ede, Osun State, southwestern, Nigeria


2. The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG)

RCCG was founded in 1952 by Rev. Josiah Olufemi Akindayomi (1909–1980) after he had been involved in several other churches. Pastor Akindayomi then chose Enoch Adeboye, a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Lagos, who joined the church in 1973. Adeboye initially became one of the interpreters translating Akindayomi’s sermons from Yoruba to English. He was ordained a pastor of the church in 1975, and his appointment as leader of the church was formalized by the posthumous reading of Akindayomi’s sealed pronouncement.

♦ Governance : Enoch Adeboye, General Overseer (1981–Date)



3. Living Faith Church Worldwide

Living Faith Church Worldwide (also known as Winners Chapel) is a megachurch and a Christian denomination founded by Bishop David Oyedepo in 1981. The organization has since become a global network of churches with congregations in 49 countries.

The beginnings of the church can be traced back to May 1981 when Oyedepo claims to have had an 18-hour vision from God. In this vision God spoke to him saying, “Now the hour has come to liberate the world from all oppressions of the devil, through the preaching of the Word of faith; and I am sending you to undertake this task”. Two years later the church was formed with four members.

♦ Born : September 27, 1954 (age 61)
Omu Aran, Kwara State, Nigeria



4. Christ Embassy

Christ Embassy also known as Believers’ LoveWorld Incorporated, is a megachurch and a Christian denomination founded by pastor Chris Oyakhilome in 1990. The Church has since become a global network of churches with congregations in many countries, with millions of members. The headquarters of Lagos has over 40 000 members. The ministry was founded in Pastor Chris’ university. There are several major programs with thousands to millions of people in attendance.

Chris Oyakhilome began by leading a prayer group at the University of Edo State, while studying architecture. The church’s foundation dates back to 1990 in Lagos. The denomination has churches in many countries. It counts 1 million members. The headquarters of Lagos has 40 000 members.
♦ Born: December 7, 1961 (age 54)



5. Deeper Christian Life Ministry

Deeper Christian Life Ministry (also known as Deeper Life Bible Church)is anon-denominational Christian Church with its international headquarters,Deeper Life Bible Church Lagos
in Lagos, Nigeria. It is overseen by the General Superintendent of Deeper Life Bible Church, Pastor William Folorunso Kumuyi. It is a Holiness-Pentecostal church.In 1973, while serving as a Mathematics Lecturer at the University of Lagos, W.F. Kumuyi started a Bible study group with 15 university students who had come to him requesting training in the Scriptures. The church started as the Deeper Christian Life Ministry.
William Folorunso Kumuyi, was a former Anglican who joined the Apostolic Faith Church after being his baptism.In 1975, he was expelled from the church for preaching without credentials. He continued his independent ministry, which in 1982 became the Deeper Life Bible Church. By the early 1980s that small group had grown to several thousand, at which time Deeper Life Bible Church was formally established.
♦ born : 6 June 1941(age 75)
Erin-Ijesha, Osun State, Nigeria


6. Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries

The Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries(MFM) is a Pentecostal organisation founded in Yaba, Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria in 1989, now with churches in several English-speaking and non-English speaking countries. It was founded by Dr. Daniel Kolawole Olukoya (DKO). Mountain Of Fire And Miracles Ministries was founded by Daniel Kolawole Olukoya at a prayer meeting in 1989 in his living room.

The prayer group purchased a large site at an abandoned slum near the University of Lagos, and converted it into the International Headquarters of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries of which Olukoya is the General Overseer. The first service there was on April 24, 1994.

♦ Born : 15th July
Akure, Ondo State



7. The Lord’s Chosen Charismatic Revival Movement

The Lord’s Chosen Charismatic Revival Movement (popularly called Lord’s Chosen) is a Nigerian Christian megachurch founded by Lazarus Muoka. The church which has its headquarters located along the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway in Surulere local government area of Lagos State started with a few people and went on to experience rapid growth with over 300,000 branches all over the world. In 1994, Lazarus Muoka claimed to have had a vision from God instructing him to leave his former church to form what is now known as The Lord’s Chosen Charismatic Revival Movement. The church which was founded on 23 December 2002 commenced service on 24 December 2002 with a few pioneer members in a rented apartment at Ilasamaja, a town in Mushin, Lagos

Due to the increase in new converts in a short period, the church was moved to its present location in Ijeshatedo on a sixty plot of land which can contain over 30,000 members in a service.

♦Born : Mgbidi in Imo State



8. The Synagogue, Church of All Nations (SCOAN)

Temitope Balogun Joshua (born June 12, 1963), commonly referred to as T. B. Joshua, is a Nigerian prophet and televangelist. He is the leader and founder of The Synagogue, Church of All Nations (SCOAN), a religious organisation that runs the
Emmanuel TV
television station from Lagos, Nigeria.

Joshua wrote that in a heavenly vision he had received divine anointing and a covenant from God to start his ministry.Following this, Joshua founded the ministry organisation The Synagogue, Church of All Nations (SCOAN) with only a handful of members. According to the organisation, more than 15,000 members attend its weekly Sunday service; visitors from outside Nigeria are accommodated in the accommodation blocks constructed at the church

♦Born : June 12, 1963 (age 53)
Arigidi, Nigeria


9.Celestial Church of Christ

The Celestial Church of Christ is an African Initiated Church founded by the Rev.
Samuel Biléhou Joseph Oshoffa on 29 September 1947 in Porto-Novo,Benin.Mainly located in Africa and in the Afro-descendant communities in the world, particularly in Benin and Nigeria.

The movement was founded by Samuel Joseph Bilewu Oschoffa, a former carpenter born in Dahomey (now Benin) in 1909. Raised as Protestant(Methodism), he had a divine revelation on 27 May 1947, during a solar eclipse, in a forest where he was lost. He felt called to pray, to heal the sick and raise the dead and founded his church in September 1947. Having appointed himself prophet, Reverend, pastor and founder, he occupied the highest office of the movement he had just founded.

♦ Born: 19 May 1909
Porto-Novo, Benin

♦ Died: 1985
Lagos, Nigeria


10. Eternal Sacred Order of the Cherubim and Seraphim

The Eternal Sacred Order of the Cherubim and Seraphim is the first African initiated church
established in 1925 by Moses Orimolade Tunolase. The church was born out of the Anglican
church community among the Yoruba people in Western Nigeria.

♦Born: c1879
Ayibiri in Ondo State of Nigeria.
♦Died: October 19, 1933

http://www.newsmath.com/churches-in-nigeria-and-their-founders/

babalola of cac is from oke ero. nothing like oke afa in kwara

ggggg

Winners in the house shout GLORY

Handsomecole:
Proudly Roman Catholic, church found by no human other than our Lord Jesus Christ himself with Apostle Peter the Ist Pope. Over 2500 years of existence with unbroken tradition with over 4 billion worshippers around every corner of the Earth.

We are Catholics we are Proud...

excuse me, Jesus never founded a church, The Romans started the catholic church. for your information, denomination started a long time again even before people started giving it names. if you are bible student, you will remember when the early christians argued that they belonged to paul, while others said they belonged to appolos? The church of Jesus has no denomination Those who are genuinely born again are part of that church... there is no denomination with christ

Princewell2012:
Very soon my name will be on that list. By the grace of God!!!





But the most important question is,

Is your name in the book of life

That is, if you are still a virgin by now.

Thats 9ce bt i disagree with that number two, thats nt exactly how baba adeboye became the general overseer.....

Pls, where is Arigidi

dermmy:


You are a big liar, the first church started the day the Apostles were baptised with the holy ghist and 3000 people were added to that church that day after the preaching of peter. Go read Acts 2:47 or whole of Act chapter 2. Apostle paul himself took the gospel to Rome and rome was a pagan nation back then that worship idols. All the Apostles were matyred even peter whom u said was the first pope was crucified. I was fed all these lies when i was a catholic but when i started reading my bible i found the truth. Early Catholic church commited atrocities
they did everything to subvert the truth that led to killing of Jon Huss and Wycliff who went against the atrocities roman catholic church commited, they were burned at the stake. The pope made sure no body had bible so that the people won't come to the light of the truth. Thank God for Martin Luther the father of protenstanism he was the one that challenged the papal's authority and broke away.

Are you so sure you read fully about the life and times of Martin Luther, you just quoted.
Jesus gave the authority of the church to st. Peter on whom the catholic faith is founded.
visit the Vatican and see for your self, peter is buried along side other popes at a particular tomb. thus making st. Peter the first pope. you were with the light, catholic, because of your ignorance you chose darkness.
I was of the winners, but now I am of the light, proudly catholic.

Handsomecole:
Proudly Roman Catholic, church found by no human other than our Lord Jesus Christ himself with Apostle Peter the Ist Pope. Over 2500 years of existence with unbroken tradition with over 4 billion worshippers around every corner of the Earth.

We are Catholics we are Proud...

4billion? big lie

leofab:
is his God different ? Not the same biblical God? Explain more please ?

Elisha prayed in ii Kings 2:14 And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the LORD God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over. God names are specific, each with a specific function (the same God, mind you), God of Elijah for example is a God that answers by fire, i can go on and on, but these are not milk, they are solid foods not for spiritual babes and sucklings. I AM THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB.

Better caption would have been:
RELIGIOUS BUSINESSES IN NIGERIA AND THEIR RESPECTIVE CEO's


I am a Protestant Christian ooo. So don't get it twisted

cktheluckyman:


James the just was indeed the first bishop of Jerusalem but Jesus did not hand over his church to him.It was to peter he hasked to take care of his flocks beffore he ascended into heaven.Peter later became the first bishop of Antioch and later first bishop of Rome where he died in AD 67

It can't b peter. What happens to John

promqueen247:
How come almost all of them started out by having vision and dream from God and till date new churches springing up up the same way. I probably might get my own vision and dream too lol.

Lol. Even the bible said not all of them are called by God. Jere 23:21, jere 14:14

Akinz0126:



It's no longer ethical to pray in the name of any man of God before getting what you what Why not channel your need to supreme being and with faith its'll work out well.

My opinion though!

yeah, thank God you added my opinion though, but this is not my opinion thought, Elisha called out the God of Elijah in 2Kings 2 vs 14, the same God of heaven, and he received immediate answer. The mysterious operations of God are beyond human ethics and modu operandis, His ways are higher than our ways, it is beyond human phenomena, beyond human grasp and comprehension.

Handsomecole:
Proudly Roman Catholic, church found by no human other than our Lord Jesus Christ himself with Apostle Peter the Ist Pope. Over 2500 years of existence with unbroken tradition with over 4 billion worshippers around every corner of the Earth.

We are Catholics we are Proud...

Bros, we Catholics never reach 4 billion yet!