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Edir Macedo was born on 18 February, 1945 in Rio das Flores, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is a Brazilian evangelical pastor. Discover Edir Macedo's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?
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Rio das Flores, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
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Edir Macedo Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Edir Macedo worth at the age of 79 years old? Edir Macedo’s income source is mostly from being a successful pastor. He is from Brazil. We have estimated Edir Macedo's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Edir Macedo (born February 18, 1945) is a Brazilian evangelical bishop, writer, billionaire businessman, and the founder of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG).
Edir Macedo was born on February 18, 1945, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
He was the fourth child born to Henrique Bezerra and Eugenia de Macedo Bezerra - Dona Geninha.
Macedo's website stated that he has degrees in theology from the Evangelical School of Theology "United Seminar", and the Faculty of Theological Education in the state of São Paulo (Fatebom); a doctorate in theology, Christian philosophy, an honorary degree in Divinity, a Master's degree in Theological Science received through the Federación Evangélica Española de Entidades Religiosas (F.E.E.D.E.R) in Madrid, Spain.
The reference to FEEDER may be an error; it is cited with a question mark in the biography, and there is an organisation called Federación de Entidades Religiosas Evangélicas de España (FEREDE).
FEEDER appears only to be referenced in association with Macedo.
The FEREDE in 2021 refused membership to the Comunidad Cristiana del Espíritu Santo, also known as Familia Unida or "Christian Help Centre", associated with the UCKG.
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.
Macedo was raised Catholic, but by 1965 converted to Pentecostalism, after an invitation from his sister to Igreja Cristã de Nova Vida.
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.
He is the owner and chairman of the third-largest television network in Brazil, Record, along with Grupo Record since 1989, which he founded after he bought the network.
In 1989 he bought the free-to-air commercial television network Record and in the same year he founded Grupo Record.
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?"
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.
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.
Macedo also leads Record (the second biggest television network in Brazil), RFTV, Record News, Line Records, 64 radio stations of Rede Aleluia and Universal Produções.
From March 2013 to 2015, Macedo was 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 or later years
The UCKG built a US$300 million replica in São Paulo of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, with an $8 million contract to import stones from Jerusalem like those used to build the 3,000-year-old original.
Macedo is married to Ester Bezerra, and has two daughters, Cristiane and Viviane, and an adopted son, Moises.
Macedo was criticized for writing an article opposing interracial marriage.
He tried to justify his views claiming that multiracial children should be avoided because they will suffer discrimination.
This led to several accusations of racism and misogyny.
Macedo has been criticised, especially after the 'kicking of the saint' incident in which UCKG bishop Sérgio Von Helder, who later left the Church, kicked a Catholic icon in a TV program, for which he was later imprisoned for two years.
He also authored a book called Orixás, Caboclos and Guias in which he attacks Afro-Brazilian religion, accusing it of Satanism and "the root of all of Brazil's troubles".
The book was first prohibited as hate speech, but after legal efforts from Macedo's church it was allowed for the sake of free speech.
Edir Macedo stated in a 2019 sermon that daughters should not be allowed to seek out higher education, because if they do they will be "smarter than their husbands", and that he personally would not allow his daughters to go to college because he believes that an educated woman cannot have a happy marriage: "When they [my daughters] went out, I said they would just go to high school and they wouldn't go to college. My wife supported me, but the relatives found it absurd. Why don't you go to college? Because if you graduate from a particular profession, you will serve yourself, you will work for yourself. But I don’t want that, you came to serve God. Because if (…) she was a doctor and had a high degree of knowledge and found a boy who had a low degree of knowledge, he would not be the head, she would be the head. And if it were the head, it would not serve God's will. I want my daughters to marry a male.
A man who has to be head.
Because if they are not head their marriage is doomed to failure."
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.