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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 ...
David Yonggi Cho - Founder of Yoido Full Gospel Church. Sentenced to three years in prison for embezzling 13 billion won (US$12 million) in church funds, in 2014. [49] Kong Hee - Founder of City Harvest Church. Original sentence of eight years, reduced to three and a half years for misappropriation of church funds amounting to SGD50million, in ...
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.
After Choi and Cho graduated in 1958, they started a tent church with the two of them and Choi's three children. This would eventually grow to become the largest church in the world, the Yoido Full Gospel Church. [1] From the early stage of the church, Choi visited and cared for the poor, the sick, and the demon-possessed.
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 1920–2017 Washington, DC United States: Catholic
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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. [25] [26] Graha Bethany Nginden, is a megachurch which is one of the largest churches in Surabaya, Indonesia and Southeast Asia.