The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of
God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye has retired.
Adeboye
Pastor Adeboye, on Saturday named a new General
Overseer (GO), Pastor J.O Obayemi, as his his successor,
ahead of his 75th birthday on 2 March.
The new GO is Pastor Joshua Obayemi was appointed the
new GO at the Annual Ministers Thanksgiving at Shimawa,
in Ogun State.
The newly appointed GO was the former Special Assistant
to the General Overseer (SATGO) on Finance.
Adeboye also appointed Pastor Johnson Odesola, who was
the Special Assistant on Administration and Personnel, as
the church Secretary.
Adeboye was born on March 2, 1942, in Ifewara, Osun
State.
Pastor Adeboye had his B.Sc. in Mathematics at University
of Nigeria Nsukka, and subsequently got his PhD in applied
mathematics from the University of Lagos, and worked as a
lecturer in Mathematics at the universities 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 its then Pastor and founder, Rev.
Josiah Olufemi Akindayomi, from Yoruba into English.
In 1981, Adeboye was appointed General Overseer of the
church.
He took over from Papa Akindayomi, who had died the
previous year.
For three years he performed the role part-time, still
lecturing at 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 has 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 on 13th
July 1948.
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