BILLIONAIRE GAMBLER™: richest religious leaders

"I always compare pimps to preachers. They wear alligator shoes, flashy suits, diamond rings, drive Cadillacs. And they sell you something you don't need. The preacher says, "I know God a little bit better than you. If you pay me, I'll hook you up.""

-- Ice T (rapper & philosopher)

List of preachers in top photo (left to right, top to bottom).

Row 1 - Bishop Fulton Sheen, Billy Graham, Robert Schuller, Bill Hybels, Rick Warren, Rob Bell, Mark Driscoll, John Burke, Dan Kimball, CraigGroeschel

Row 2 - Oral Roberts, Kathryn Kuhlman, Benny Hinn, Mother Angelica, Pat Robertson, Jim Bakker, Tammy Faye Bakker, Paul Crouch, Jan Crouch, Marcus Lamb

Row 3 - A.A. Allen, R.W. Schambauch, Leroy Jenkins, Rev. Ike, PeterPopoff, Leroy Thompson, Fred Price, John Avanzini, Robert Tilton, Mike Murdoch

Row 4 - Rex Humbard, Jimmy Swaggart, Marilyn Hickey, Joyce Meyer, Rod Parsley, T.D. Jakes, Jesse Duplantis, Creflo Dollar, Joel Osteen, Joseph Price

Row 5 - E.W. Kenyon, Kenneth Hagin, Charles Capps, Kenneth Copeland, Gloria Copeland, Jerry Savelle, Paula White, Rodney Howard Brown, John Wimber, Steve Munsey, Brian Houston

Row 6 - Jack Hayford, Chuck Swindoll, Greg Laurie, Francis Chan, John Maxwell, Charles Stanley, Andy Stanley, Ed Young Jr., Mike Bickel, John Piper, John MacArthur

After intensive searches on the web, I've limited the below list to the over $25 Million net worth preachers / televangelists.

I will keep the Pope himself and the Indu gurus for another article.

As you will see below and in my following articles, there is endless amounts of Money made by charismatic leaders all across the world.

22- Pastor Ray Macaulay

Net Worth $25 Million
South Africa

21- Rick Warren

Net Worth $25 Million
America

20- Billy Graham

Net Worth $25 Million
America

19- Joyce Meyer

Net Worth over $25 Million
America

18- Creflo Dollar

Net Worth $27 Million
America
Prosperity Theology

17- Pastor Tshifinwa Irene

Net Worth $35 Million
South Africa

16- E.A. Adeboye

Net Worth $39 Million
Nigeria

Has 14,000 churches in Nigeria alone.

15- Joel Osteen

Net Worth $40 Million
America
Prosperity Theology

14- Benny Hinn

Net Worth $42 Million
America
Faith healer

13- Christian Oyakhilome

Net Worth over $50 Million
Nigeria
Faith healer

Nigerian preacher pulling big Money out of his poor community.

12- Prophet Uebert Angel

Net Worth $60 Million
Zimbabwe

11- Paul & Jan Crouch

Net Worth $100 Million
America

10- Peter Popoff

Net Worth $100 Million
America
Fraudulent faith healer and self-proclaimed prophet

9- Robert Tilton

Net Worth $100 Million
America
Prosperity Theology

8- Pat Robertson

Net Worth $100 Million
America
Conservative Christianity

There is some speculations that Pat Robertson net worth could be as high as a Billion dollars. He is a shrewd business man who invest where the Money is.

7- Bishop Ayodele Oritsejafor

Net Worth $120 Million
Nigeria

6- Pastor E.A. Adeboye

Net Worth $130 Millions
Nigeria

5- Bishop T.D. Jakes

Net Worth $147 Million
America
Prosperity Theology

4- Prophet Shepherd Bushiri

Net Worth $150 Million

3- Bishop David Oyedepo

Net Worth over $150 Million
Nigeria

A veritable feat if you take for grant that the average annual income in Nigeria is $730.

Almost 55 percent of Nigeria’s citizens live below the poverty level on under $2 a day. Nigeria has a population of 168,833,776 people. It seem that every people in Nigeria gave him one dollar.

Nigerian people are known to be very spiritual and as having the inate habit to attribute everything to miracles and spirituality. Which make them the perfect audience for charismatic and greedy preachers.

2- Kenneth Copeland