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In 2007, the largest megachurch in the world by attendance was South Korea's Yoido Full Gospel Church, an Assemblies of God (Pentecostal) church, with more than 830,000 members. [24] [25] Graha Bethany Nginden, is a megachurch which is one of the largest churches in Surabaya, Indonesia and Southeast Asia.
The same source also lists more than 1,300 such Protestant and Evangelical churches in the United States with a weekly attendance of more than 2,000, meeting the definition of a megachurch. [ 4 ] As the term megachurch in common parlance refers to Protestant congregations; although there are some Catholic parishes which would meet the criteria ...
Large churches from other denominations, like Catholicism, are not included as they are not deemed to belong to the megachurch phenomenon which by definition is part of Protestantism. The list is not exhaustive, there are large annual changes, and there are difficulties to compare the churches as different methods to count can be used.
Robert Morris, founding pastor of the megachurch Gateway, delivers a sermon at the church in Fort Worth, Texas, in 2018. (Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times / Redux Pictures)
A Texas megachurch entrenched in scandal has seen a significant dip in attendance in recent weeks.. Gateway Church has seen a mass exodus after its founder, Robert Morris, resigned in June after ...
Morris later founded Gateway Church in 2000, and grew it into one of the largest evangelical churches in the country. The church said on social media earlier this week that the board of elders had ...
This is a list of megachurches affiliated with the Assemblies of God. A megachurch affiliated with the World Assemblies of God Fellowship having 2,000 or more worshippers for a typical weekly service. According to a 1996 statistic, nearly one in ten megachurches in the United States are affiliated with the General Council of the Assemblies of ...
In 1993, the church began with Pastor Sunday Adelaja and 7 people in an apartment. [1] The church was officially founded in 1994 as the "World of Faith Bible Church". [1] In 2002, the church changed her name to "Embassy of the Blessed Kingdom of God for All Nations". In 2008, the church opened 20 churches in Ukraine and 18 in the world. [2]