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1/7/17, 9:35:30 AM: ‪+234 803 858 8643‬: BREAKING NOW: Pastor Adeboye Retires As General Overseer Of RCCG; Appoints Joshua Obayemi As New General Overseer

The General Overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye has retired.

Pastor Adeboye on Saturday named a new General Overseer, Pastor Joshua O. Obayemi as his successor, ahead of his 75th birthday on March 2nd.
Pastor Joshua Obayemi was appointed the new General Overseer at the Annual Ministers Thanksgiving at Shimawa, Ogun State.

The newly appointed G.O. was the former Special Assistant to the General Overseer (SATGO) on Finance.

Adeboye also appointed Funsho Odeshola, who was the Special Assistant on Administration and Personnel as the Church Secretary.

Adeboye was born on March 2, 1942 in Ifewara, Osun State. He had his B.Sc in Mathematics at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and subsequently got his PhD in Applied Mathematics at the University of Lagos and Ilorin, before going into full-time priesthood in 1984.

After joining the RCCG in 1973, he began working to translate the sermons of the then Pastor and Founder, Rev. Josiah Olufemi Akindayomi, from Yoruba into English.

In 1981, Adeboye was appointed the General Overseer of the church. He took over from Papa Akindayomi who had the previous year.

For the three years, he performed the role part-time, still lecturing in Ilorin. He finally gave up his university position to preach full-time.

The church which was not well known prior to Adeboye's ascendance, has grown phenomenally to become Nigeria's biggest with branches globally in about 190 countries, including more than 14,000 in Nigeria.

Adeboye had stated that his aim is to put a church within five minutes of every person on earth. He married Adenike , now 68 in 1967. She was born in 13th July, 1948.


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