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| Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, |
"Let Somebody Shout Hallelujah!" The General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG),
Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, fondly known as G.O or Daddy G.O is 70 years old today. The easy-going Pastor Adeboye, who was
born into a humble family from Ifewara in the present Osun
State, became the General Overseer of the RCCG in 1981, after the demise
of the founder, Pa Josiah Akindayomi.
His Birthday occasion coinciding with the March Special National Holy Ghost Service
of the church.
In 2008, Newsweek magazine named Adeboye one of the fifty (50) most powerful people in the world.
Pastor Adeboye has a PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Lagos, and worked as a lecturer in mathematics at the universities of Lagos and Ilorin; After joining the RCCG, he began working to translate the sermons of
its then Pastor and founder, Rev. Josiah Olufemi Akindayomi, from Yoruba into English.
In 1981 Adeboye was appointed General Overseer the church, taking over from Papa Akindayomi, who had died the previous year.
For three years he filled the role part-time, still lecturing at
Ilorin, until giving up his university position to preach full-time.
The church, which was not well known before Adeboye took charge, now claims branches in over a hundred countries, including more than 14,000 in Nigeria. Adeboye has stated that his aim is to put a church within five minutes of every person on Earth.
He is married to Foluke Adeboye, also a pastor, with whom he has children.
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