The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of
God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye has retired.
Adeboye
Pastor Adeboye, on Saturday named a new General Overseer
(GO), Pastor J.O Obayemi, as his his successor, ahead of his
75th birthday on 2 March.
The new GO is Pastor Joshua Obayemi was appointed the
new GO at the Annual Ministers Thanksgiving at Shimawa, in
Ogun State.
The newly appointed GO was the former Special Assistant to
the General Overseer (SATGO) on Finance.
Adeboye also appointed Pastor Johnson Odesola, who was
the Special Assistant on Administration and Personnel, as the
church Secretary Pastor Adeyokunnu as church Treasurer.
Adeboye was born on March 2, 1942, in Ifewara, Osun State.
Pastor Adeboye had his B.Sc. in Mathematics at University of
Nigeria Nsukka, and subsequently got his PhD in applied
mathematics from the University of Lagos, and worked as a
lecturer in Mathematics at the universities of Lagos and Ilorin,
before going into full time priesthood in 1984.
After joining the RCCG in 1973, he began working to translate
the sermons of its then Pastor and founder, Rev. Josiah
Olufemi Akindayomi, from Yoruba into English.
In 1981, Adeboye was appointed General Overseer of the
church.
He took over from Papa Akindayomi, who had died the
previous year.
For three years he performed the role part-time, still lecturing
at Ilorin.
He finally gave up his university position to preach full-time.
The church, which was not well known prior to Adeboye’s
ascendance has grown phenomenally, to become Nigeria’s
biggest, with branches globally in about 190 countries,
including more than 14,000 in Nigeria.
Adeboye has stated that his aim is to put a church within five
minutes of every person on Earth.
He married Adenike, now 68 in 1967. She was born on 13th
July 1948.
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