Name: | Edir Macedo |
Occupation: | Religious Leader |
Gender: | Male |
Birth Day: | February 18, 1945 |
Age: | 75 |
Country: | Brazil |
Zodiac Sign: | Aquarius |
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Before Fame
He was raised Catholic but eventually converted to Pentecostalism. He worked as a researcher with the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics in the 1970s.
Biography
Biography Timeline
Edir Macedo was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1945 (one of seven surviving children).
In 1963 he began a career as a civil servant, initially working with the state-run lottery of Rio de Janeiro, Loterj, and also at the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, IBGE, as a researcher in the economic census of 1970.
In 1975, Macedo founded a Pentecostal church with Romildo Ribeiro Soares, Cruzada do Caminho Eterno. After an argument, the two separated.
In 1977, Macedo founded with others the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil.
In 1989 he bought the free-to-air commercial television network RecordTV and in the same year he founded Grupo Record. In 2007 he founded the 24-hour free-to-air news channel Record News.
His rapidly growing religious movement and his teaching of prosperity theology have been a source of controversy. His sermons partly focus on freeing his followers from unclean spirits that oppress them, which manifest in them, and are cast out in the name of Jesus, for them to overcome their problems. His views about other faiths, particularly Catholicism, are also controversial. In 1992 he spent eleven days in jail on accusations of charlatanism. There were several protests, with his religious followers camping in front of the police precinct he was held in, according to his autobiography “Nothing to Lose”. His prosperity theology is used by church leaders to justify his lifestyle, “If I preach prosperity and my clothes are ragged, who will follow me?”
Edir Macedo was indicted by the Federal Justice for import of equipment and use of public documents and legal proceedings, but not convicted. Ten years later he was prosecuted again by the prosecutors of the State of São Paulo. On October 19, 2010 the São Paulo Justice Court (TJ-SP) annulled all accusations made by the São Paulo Public Ministry against the UCKG and its principal representatives by a majority vote. The judges deemed that the São Paulo prosecutors did not have jurisdiction to investigate the case, as the accusations were of a type that fell into the federal jurisdiction.
From March 2013 to 2015, Macedo has been on the Forbes billionaires list with a reported US$1.1 billion, and $1.24 b for Macedo and family, making him by far the richest pastor in Brazil and the world. He was not on the list for 2016.
🎂 Upcoming Birthday
Currently, Edir Macedo is 77 years, 5 months and 15 days old. Edir Macedo will celebrate 78th birthday on a Saturday 18th of February 2023.
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