9. Celestial Church of Christ
Founder: Rev. Samuel Biléhou Joseph Oshoffa
The Celestial Church of Christ is an African Initiated Church founded by the Rev. Samuel Biléhou Joseph Oshoffa on 29 September 1947 in Porto-Novo,Benin.Mainly located in Africa and in the Afro-descendant communities in the world, particularly in Benin and Nigeria.
The movement was founded by Samuel Joseph Bilewu Oschoffa, a former carpenter born in Dahomey (now Benin) in 1909. Raised as Protestant(Methodism), he had a divine revelation on 27 May 1947, during a solar eclipse, in a forest where he was lost.
He felt called to pray, to heal the sick and raise the dead and founded his church in September 1947. Having appointed himself prophet, Reverend, pastor and founder, he occupied the highest office of the movement he had just founded.
♦ Born: 19 May 1909
Porto-Novo, Benin
♦ Died: 1985
Lagos, Nigeria
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pastor E.A Adeboye is not the founder of RCCG, pastor Josiah Akindayomi is.