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The Yoido Full Gospel Church was founded in 1958 by Pastor David Yonggi Cho and his mother-in-law, Choi Ja-shil, both Assemblies of God pastors. [5] [6] On 15 May 1958, a worship service was held in the home of Choi Ja-shil.
David Yonggi Cho (Korean: 조용기; 14 February 1936 – 14 September 2021 as Paul Yungi Cho) was a South Korean Pentecostal Pastor.He was the founder of the Yoido Full Gospel Church (Assemblies of God), which he started in a tent with 5 people (including his future mother-in-law Choi Ja-shil and her children as its first members), which eventually became the world's largest congregation ...
Cho, an emeritus pastor at Seoul’s Yoido Full Gospel Church, died at a Seoul hospital where he had been treated since he collapsed due to a cerebral hemorrhage in July 2020, the church said. ...
Christian churches in Korea have been increased drastically since 1980 and the world's largest church (Yoido Full Gospel Church) also locates there. [3] Korea comes after the US as the second largest Christian missionary country in the world. There have been more than 17,000 Christian evangelists from Korea sent abroad.
He began his ministry as pastor of Yoido Full Gospel Church in 1977. [10] In 2008, he succeeded David Yonggi Cho as senior pastor of Yoido Full Gospel Church. [11] [12] [13] He also became Superintendent of Assemblies of God of South Korea Yoido General Council in 2009. [14] In 2016, he became president of the Christian Council of Korea. [15]
Hence, due to inaccuracies, the same church can sometimes be reported to have attendance and membership counts that differ 5–10 times, depending on how reporting is done and who is doing it, e.g. Yoido Full Gospel Church can sometimes be mentioned with attendance numbers over 800,000. [14]
Largest Oriental Orthodox church in the world Yoido Full Gospel: 7,450 (estimated) 44,000+ 12,000 1973 Seoul South Korea: Protestant (Pentecostal) Largest Pentecostal church St. Vitus Cathedral: 7,440 [citation needed] 1344–1929 Prague Czech Republic: Catholic Basilica Natn. Shrine of the Immaculate Conception: 7,097 [47] 10,234 10,000 1920 ...
Seoul is filled with so many church buildings and signs of the cross, that it has been called "a city of churches." [4] In 2011, according to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism there were almost 78,000 Protestant churches in Korea. [6] South Korea has the world’s largest church congregation at the Yoido Full Gospel Church.