List of United States televangelists
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This is a list of notable televangelists.

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  • A. A. Allen
    A. A. Allen
    Asa A. Allen , better known as A.A. Allen, was a controversial evangelist with a Pentecostal healing and deliverance ministry. He was, for a time, associated with the "Voice of Healing" movement founded by Gordon Lindsay. He died at age 59 in San Francisco...

     (1911–1970)
  • Mother Angelica
    Mother Angelica
    Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation, PCPA is an American Roman Catholic nun who founded the Eternal Word Television Network. In 1944 she entered the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration, a Franciscan religious order for women, as a postulant, and a year later she was admitted to the order as a...

     (born 1923)
  • Ernest Angley
    Ernest Angley
    Ernest Angley is an international Christian evangelist, based in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.-Grace Cathedral:Ernest Angley's interdenominational ministry was originally based at Grace Cathedral in Springfield Township, Ohio southeast of Akron...

     (born 1921)
  • John Ankerberg
    John Ankerberg
    John Ankerberg is an American Christian evangelist and TV presenter. He is an ordained minister and published author, having written 91 books focusing on religious subjects....

     (born 1945)
  • Garner Ted Armstrong
    Garner Ted Armstrong
    Garner Ted Armstrong was an American evangelist and the son of Herbert W. Armstrong, founder of the Worldwide Church of God, at the time a Sabbatarian organization that taught strict observance of seventh-day Sabbath, holy days typically associated with the Jewish faith, and other observances...

     (1930–2003)
  • Herbert W. Armstrong
    Herbert W. Armstrong
    Herbert W. Armstrong founded the Worldwide Church of God in the late 1930s, as well as Ambassador College in 1946, and was an early pioneer of radio and tele-evangelism, originally taking to the airwaves in the 1930s from Eugene, Oregon...

     (1892–1986)
  • John Avanzini
    John Avanzini
    Dr. John Avanzini is an American televangelist and "Word of Faith" Bible teacher who preaches a message of financial prosperity...

     (born 1936)

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  • Jim Bakker
    Jim Bakker
    James Orsen "Jim" Bakker is an American televangelist, a former Assemblies of God minister, and a former host of The PTL Club, a popular evangelical Christian television program.A sex scandal led to his resignation from the ministry...

     (born 1940)
  • Tammy Faye Bakker (1942–2007)
  • Doug Batchelor
    Doug Batchelor
    Doug Batchelor is an evangelist of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and author of several books including The Richest Caveman. His primary ministry is Amazing Facts - a worldwide television and radio broadcast ministry based in Sacramento, California. He also pastors the Sacramento Central...

     (born 1957)
  • Juanita Bynum
    Juanita Bynum
    Juanita Bynum is an American Pentecostal televangelist, author, actress and gospel singer.-Early life:Juanita Bynum is one of 5 children, from the marriage of Elder Thomas Bynum Sr. and Katherine Bynum. She grew up in Chicago, and received a starring role in Perry Middle School's annual play, My...

     (born 1959)

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  • Harold Camping
    Harold Camping
    Harold Egbert Camping is an American Christian radio broadcaster. He served as president of Family Radio, a California-based radio station group that broadcasts to more than 150 markets in the United States, since 1958. In 2011 he retired from active broadcasting following a stroke, but still...

     (born 1921)
  • Morris Cerullo
    Morris Cerullo
    Morris Cerullo is an American pentecostal televangelist.-Early life and ministry:Cerullo, whose evangelistic ministry is based in San Diego, California, was born in Passaic, New Jersey to a Russo Jewish/Italian family. His parents died in an automobile accident when he was only two years old...

     (born 1931)
  • Kenneth Copeland
    Kenneth Copeland
    Kenneth Copeland is an American author, public speaker, and televangelist. He is the founder of Kenneth Copeland Ministries, which preaches a “prosperity gospel”: "Prosperity gospel assures followers that the more they give including in the form of tithes to the church, the more they will receive...

     (born 1936)
  • John Corapi (born 1947)
  • Charles Coughlin
    Charles Coughlin
    Father Charles Edward Coughlin was a controversial Roman Catholic priest at Royal Oak, Michigan's National Shrine of the Little Flower church. He was one of the first political leaders to use radio to reach a mass audience, as more than thirty million tuned to his weekly broadcasts during the...

     (1891–1979) American radio evangelist from 1926 to 1940, and a significant predecessor of televangelism.
  • Percy Crawford
    Percy Crawford
    Percy Bartimus Crawford was an evangelist and fundamentalist leader who especially emphasized youth ministry. During the late 1950s, he saw the potential of FM radio and UHF television and built the first successful Christian broadcasting network...

     (1902–1960) The first documented televangelist.
  • Paul Crouch
    Paul Crouch
    Paul Franklin Crouch is a religious broadcaster and, along with his wife Jan, co-founder of the Trinity Broadcasting Network .-Biography:...

     (born 1934)

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  • Billy Joe Daugherty
    Billy Joe Daugherty
    Billy Joe Daugherty was founder and pastor of Victory Christian Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was also the founder of Victory Christian School, Victory Bible Institute and Victory World Missions Training Center. Nine hundred and eighty Victory Bible Institutes have been started in eighty-five...

  • Creflo Dollar
    Creflo Dollar
    Creflo Augustus Dollar, Jr. is an American Word of Faith teacher, pastor, and the founder of the non-denominational World Changers Church International based in Fulton County, Georgia. Creflo Dollar Ministerial Association , Creflo Dollar Ministries, and Arrow Records...

     (born 1962)
  • Richard Dortch
    Richard Dortch
    Richard W. Dortch was a former Assemblies of God District Superintendent for Illinois and an Assemblies of God Executive Presbyter...

  • Jesse Duplantis
    Jesse Duplantis
    Jesse Duplantis is an Evangelical Charismatic Christian minister based in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., and the founder of Jesse Duplantis Ministries.-Biography :...

     (born 1949)
  • D. L. Dykes, Jr.
    D. L. Dykes, Jr.
    David Leroy "D.L." Dykes, Jr. , was the senior pastor from 1955-1984 of the large First United Methodist Church in Shreveport, Louisiana...

     (1917–1997)

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  • Jerry Falwell
    Jerry Falwell
    Jerry Lamon Falwell, Sr. was an evangelical fundamentalist Southern Baptist pastor, televangelist, and a conservative commentator from the United States. He was the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church, a megachurch in Lynchburg, Virginia...

     (1933–2007) American leader of the now defunct Moral Majority
    Moral Majority
    The Moral Majority was a political organization of the United States which had an agenda of evangelical Christian-oriented political lobbying...

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  • Robert J. Fox (1927–2009)
  • Charles E. Fuller
    Charles E. Fuller
    Charles Edward Fuller was an American Christian clergyman and a radio evangelist.Charles Fuller was born in Los Angeles, California. After graduating from Pomona College in 1910, he worked in the citrus packing business in southern California until 1918...

     (1887–1968)
  • Theodore Epp
    Theodore Epp
    Theodore H. Epp was an American Christian clergyman, writer, and a radio evangelist. Epp was the founding director and speaker of the Back to the Bible broadcasts between 1939–1985, heard worldwide on eight hundred stations in eight languages.-Early years and education:Epp was born in Oraibi,...

      Leader of Back To The Bible Broadcasts.

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  • Billy Graham
    Billy Graham
    William Franklin "Billy" Graham, Jr. is an American evangelical Christian evangelist. As of April 25, 2010, when he met with Barack Obama, Graham has spent personal time with twelve United States Presidents dating back to Harry S. Truman, and is number seven on Gallup's list of admired people for...

     (born 1918)
  • Franklin Graham
    Franklin Graham
    William Franklin Graham III , known publicly as Franklin Graham, is an American Christian evangelist and missionary. He is the president and CEO of both the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and the international Christian relief organization Samaritan's Purse.He currently lives in Boone,...

     (born 1952)
  • Robert Grant
    Robert Grant (Christian Leader)
    Dr. Robert G. Grant is one of the early leaders of the Christian Right in America. He served as the chairman of Christian Voice and the American Freedom Coalition....

     (born 1936) American chairman of Christian Voice
    Christian Voice (USA)
    Christian Voice is an American conservative Christian right advocacy group. In 1980, this group had 107,000 members including 37,000 pastors from 45 denominations. It is a project of the American Service Council...

    , nicknamed the "father of the Christian Right".
  • W.V. Grant
    W.V. Grant
    Walter Vinson Grant, Jr., who goes by W. V. Grant, is an American televangelist whose ministry has been based in the Dallas, Texas, area...

     (born 1945)

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  • John Hagee
    John Hagee
    John Charles Hagee is an American founder and senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, a non-denominational charismatic megachurch with more than 19,000 active members...

     (born 1940)
  • Kenneth E. Hagin
    Kenneth E. Hagin
    Kenneth Erwin Hagin was an influential American Pentecostal preacher. He is often referred to as the "father" of the "Word of Faith" movement. Many of his followers often refer to him affectionately as "Dad Hagin", "Pappa Hagin" and more commonly "Brother Hagin".- Personal life :Kenneth E...

     (1917–2003)
  • Billy James Hargis
    Billy James Hargis
    Billy James Hargis was a fundamentalist Protestant Christian evangelist. At the height of his popularity in the 1950s and 1960s, his Christian Crusade ministry was broadcast on more than 500 radio stations and 250 television stations...

     (1925–2004)
  • Marilyn Hickey
    Marilyn Hickey
    Marilyn Hickey is an American Christian minister and Christian television televangelist and personality who teaches Bible studies both nationally and internationally.-Biography:...

     (born 1931)
  • Benny Hinn
    Benny Hinn
    Toufik Benedictus "Benny" Hinn הין; born December 3, 1952) is a televangelist, best known for his regular "Miracle Crusades" – revival meeting/faith healing summits that are usually held in large stadiums in major cities, which are later broadcast worldwide on his television program, This Is Your...

     (born 1952)
  • Brian Houston
    Brian Houston (pastor)
    Brian Houston is a pastor in the Australian Christian Churches. He is currently the Senior Pastor at Hillsong Church which has locations in Sydney and Brisbane, Australia, London, Cape Town, Kiev, Germany, Paris, Moscow, Stockholm and New York City. He was also the National President of Australian...

     (born 1954)
  • Rex Humbard
    Rex Humbard
    Alpha Rex Emmanuel Humbard was a well-known American television evangelist whose Cathedral of Tomorrow show was shown on over 600 stations at the peak of its popularity....

     (1919–2007)

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  • Reverend Ike
    Reverend Ike
    Reverend Ike was an American minister and electronic evangelist based in New York City. He was best known for the slogan "You can't lose with the stuff I use!"-Background:...

     (1935–2009)
  • T.D. Jakes (born 1957)
  • Leroy Jenkins
    Leroy Jenkins (televangelist)
    Leroy Jenkins is an American televangelist and preacher who was popular in the 1960s and 1970s. He was known for his faith healing, through the use of "miracle water". His television program can be seen on television stations across the U.S...

  • David Jeremiah
    David Jeremiah
    For the article on the retired U.S. Navy admiral and former Acting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, see David E. Jeremiah.David P. Jeremiah is a conservative evangelical Christian author, evangelist, and currently the senior pastor of Shadow Mountain Community Church, an evangelical...

     (born 1941)
  • Noel Jones (born 1950)

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  • Bill Keller
    Bill Keller (televangelist)
    William Herbert Keller is a television evangelist and the host of Live Prayer.-Early life:Keller was born in Dayton, Ohio, raised in the United Methodist Church, and has identified himself as an evangelical Christian since the age of 12...

  • D. James Kennedy
    James Kennedy (televangelist)
    Dennis James Kennedy , better known as D. James Kennedy, was an American Christian broadcaster, church pastor, and founder of the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he was senior pastor from 1960 until his death in 2007...

     (1930–2007)
  • Ben Kinchlow
    Ben Kinchlow
    Ben Kinchlow is an African-American evangelist best known for being co-host of The 700 Club from 1975 to 1988 and again from 1992 to 1996. He also hosted other shows on the Christian Broadcasting Network such as Straight Talk and a radio talk show, Taking It To The Streets...

     (born 1936)
  • Kathryn Kuhlman
    Kathryn Kuhlman
    Kathryn Johanna Kuhlman was an American faith healer and evangelist.-Early life:Kathryn Johanna Kuhlman was born in Concordia, Missouri, to German-American parents...

     (1907–1976)

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  • Walter A. Maier
    Walter A. Maier
    Walter A. Maier was a noted radio personality, public speaker, prolific author, university professor, scholar of ancient Semitic languages and culture, Lutheran theologian and editor...

     (1893–1950)
  • Aimee Semple McPherson
    Aimee Semple McPherson
    Aimee Semple McPherson , also known as Sister Aimee, was a Canadian-American Los Angeles, California evangelist and media celebrity in the 1920s and 1930s. She founded the Foursquare Church...

     (1890–1944)
  • Joyce Meyer
    Joyce Meyer
    Joyce Meyer is a Charismatic Christian author and speaker. Meyer and her husband Dave have four grown children, and live outside St. Louis, Missouri. Her ministry is headquartered in the St. Louis suburb of Fenton, Missouri.-Early life:Meyer was born Pauline Joyce Hutchison in south St. Louis in...

     (born 1943)
  • Randy Morrison
    Randy Morrison
    Randy Morrison is a pastor originally from Trinidad and Tobago whose relaxed approach and practical advice is favoured among more secular audiences. Having been raised by a single mother, he migrated to the U.S. city of Minneapolis in 1971 and converted shortly thereafter, and established the Speak...

  • Steve Munsey
    Steve Munsey
    Steve K. Munsey is the pastor of the Family Christian Center in Munster, Indiana. He is frequently seen on the Trinity Broadcasting Network, DayStar, and local stations throughout the United States.-Early life:...

     (born 1953)
  • Mike Murdock
    Mike Murdock
    Michael Dean Murdock is a televangelist and pastor of the Wisdom Center ministry based in Fort Worth, Texas. His father, J.E. Murdock, is also a pastor. Murdock was educated in LaGrange High School in Lake Charles, and in Southwestern Assemblies of God University in Waxahachie for three semesters...

     (born 1946)
  • Joel Osteen
    Joel Osteen
    Joel Scott Osteen is an American author, televangelist, and the senior pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. His ministry reaches over seven million broadcast media viewers weekly in over 100 nations around the world.-Biography:...

     (born 1963) American senior pastor of Lakewood Church
    Lakewood Church
    Lakewood Church is a non-denominational Christian megachurch located in Houston, Texas. It is the largest congregation in the United States, averaging more than 43,500 in attendance per week. The 16,800-seat Lakewood Church Central Campus, home to four English language services and two Spanish...

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  • Rod Parsley
    Rod Parsley
    Rodney Lee Parsley is a prominent American Christian minister, author, television host and evangelist. He is senior pastor of World Harvest Church, a large Pentecostal church in Columbus, Ohio and founder and president of The Center for Moral Clarity, a right-wing Christian grassroots advocacy...

     (born 1957) American senior pastor of the World Harvest Church
    World Harvest Church
    World Harvest Church is an international pentecostal megachurch founded in Columbus, Ohio that is pastored by Rod Parsley.First started in 1977 in Rod Parsley's parent's backyard, the church consisted of 17 people. Two years later Parsley bought property for the church to be built on. 180 people...

  • Bishop Earl Paulk (1927–2009)
  • Svein-Magne Pedersen
    Svein-Magne Pedersen
    Svein-Magne Pedersen is a Christian Evangelist and faith healer from Norway. His two organizations Jesus Heals Ministries and Norwegian MJL main activity is prayer for the sick on telephone to the office in Vennesla, Norway, or during healing services in Norway or abroad, where Svein-Magne prays...

     (born 1948)
  • Peter Popoff
    Peter Popoff
    Peter Popoff is a German-born American faith healer and the president of Peter Popoff Ministries. He conducts revival meetings and has a national television program...

     (born 1946)
  • Apollo Quiboloy
    Apollo Quiboloy
    Apollo Carreon Quiboloy is the founder and leader of the Philippines-based Restorationist Christian church, the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, The Name Above Every Name, Inc. He has made claims that he is the "Appointed Son of God".-Early years:...

     (born 1950)

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  • Daniel S. Razón
    Daniel S. Razón
    Daniel S. Razón is a television and radio host in the Philippines. He is also the vice-presiding minister of the Members Church of God International.-Broadcast career:...

     (born 1967) Filipino vice presiding minister of the Church of God International
  • David Reagan
    David Reagan
    David R. Reagan is a Christian Bible scholar who heads Lamb and Lion Ministries. David Reagan is also host of a weekly show on DayStar ....

  • Oral Roberts
    Oral Roberts
    Granville "Oral" Roberts was an American Pentecostal televangelist and a Christian charismatic. He founded the Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association and Oral Roberts University....

     (1918–2009)
  • Richard Roberts
    Richard Roberts (evangelist)
    Richard Roberts is an American evangelist. Roberts is chairman and chief executive officer of the Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association. Since his healing ministry began in 1980, he has preached on six continents. Holding his first overseas crusade in South Africa in 1982, he has since traveled...

     (born 1948)
  • Pat Robertson
    Pat Robertson
    Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson is a media mogul, television evangelist, ex-Baptist minister and businessman who is politically aligned with the Christian Right in the United States....

     (born 1930) American host of The 700 Club
    The 700 Club
    The 700 Club is the flagship news talk show of the Christian Broadcasting Network, airing in syndication throughout the United States and Canada. In production since 1966, it is currently hosted by Pat Robertson, Terry Meeuwsen, Kristi Watts, and Gordon P. Robertson, two of whom will host on any...

    . Unsuccessfully campaigned to become the Republican Party's nominee in the 1988 presidential election
    United States presidential election, 1988
    The United States presidential election of 1988 featured no incumbent president, as President Ronald Reagan was unable to seek re-election after serving the maximum two terms allowed by the Twenty-second Amendment. Reagan's Vice President, George H. W. Bush, won the Republican nomination, while the...

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  • James Robison (born 1943)
  • Adrian Rogers
    Adrian Rogers
    Adrian Pierce Rogers served three terms as president of the Southern Baptist Convention , a Southern Baptist pastor, and a conservative author....

     (1931–2005)
  • Richard Rossi
    Richard Rossi
    Richard Rossi is an American filmmaker, actor, producer, musician, church planter, and healing evangelist...

     (born 1963) American radio evangelist and "faith healer". Trialed for attempted murder of his wife in 1995.

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  • Eliseo Soriano
    Eliseo Soriano
    Eliseo Fernando "Bro. Eli" Soriano is a Filipino televangelist. He is the current Presiding Minister of the Philippines-based Christian organization Members Church of God International, colloquially known through its radio and television program Ang Dating Daan...

     (born 1947) Filipino presiding minister of Church of God International. Host of the multi-awarded TV show, The Old Path
    Ang Dating Daan
    Ang Dating Daan is a religious radio and television program in the Philippines produced by the Members of the Church of God International. It is primarily hosted by Eli Soriano. In Portugal and Brazil, it airs as O Caminho Antigo which is a direct translation for The Old Path...

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  • Robert A. Schuller
    Robert A. Schuller
    Robert Anthony Schuller is an American televangelist, author, and television executive. He was formerly a minister on the Hour of Power weekly television program broadcast from the Crystal Cathedral in Orange County, California, where he was named senior pastor in 2006...

     (born 1954) American former senior pastor of the Crystal Cathedral
    Crystal Cathedral
    The Crystal Cathedral is a Protestant Christian church building in the city of Garden Grove, in Orange County, California, United States. It is the headquarters and principal place of worship for Crystal Cathedral Ministries, a church founded in 1955 by Robert H. Schuller and affiliated with the...

    , son of Robert H. Schuller
  • Robert H. Schuller
    Robert H. Schuller
    Robert Harold Schuller is an American televangelist, pastor, speaker, motivator and author. He is principally known for the weekly Hour of Power television program which he began in 1970. He is also the founder of the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California, where the Hour of Power program...

     (born 1926) American host of The Hour of Power
    The Hour of Power
    Hour of Power is a weekly American Christian television program currently hosted by Sheila Schuller Coleman. It was previously hosted by her brother, Robert A. Schuller, and her father, Robert H. Schuller, who founded the program. It is broadcast from the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove,...

  • Eugene Scott (1929–2005)
  • Fulton Sheen (1895–1979) American Catholic Bishop of Rochester, hosted a weekly show in 1950s and 1960s.
  • Kerry Shook
    Kerry Shook
    Kerry Shook is a best-selling author and Senior Pastor of Fellowship of The Woodlands in The Woodlands, Texas. His followers are known as the FOTWA. Now known as Woodlandschurch with four campuses located in the Woodlands, Tomball, Kingwood, and Katy, Texas...

     (born 1962)
  • Ralph Sockman (1889–1970)
  • Charles Stanley (born 1932) American senior pastor of In Touch Ministries
    In Touch Ministries
    In Touch Ministries is a Christian Evangelical non-profit ministry founded by Charles Stanley, the former head of the Southern Baptist Convention...

  • Don Stewart
    Don Stewart (preacher)
    Don Stewart is a Pentecostal minister and faith healer. He is a televangelist who hosts "Power and Mercy" on Black Entertainment Television, The Word Network, and other television channels...

     (born 1939)
  • Jimmy Swaggart
    Jimmy Swaggart
    Jimmy Lee Swaggart is a Pentecostal American pastor, teacher, musician, television host, and televangelist. He has preached to crowds around the world through his weekly telecast...

     (born 1935)

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  • Jack Van Impe
    Jack Van Impe
    Jack Leo Van Impe is a televangelist who is known for his half-hour weekly television series Jack Van Impe Presents, an eschatological commentary on the news of the week through his interpretation of the Bible...

     (born 1931)
  • Rexella Van Impe (born 1932)
  • George Vandeman
    George Vandeman
    George Edward Vandeman , was a Seventh-day Adventist evangelist who founded the It Is Written television ministry.#- Biography :...

     (1916–2000)
  • Eddie Villanueva
    Eddie Villanueva
    Eduardo C. Villanueva , known as Bro. Eddie Villanueva, is a religious and political leader in the Philippines and a presidential candidate in the 2010 Philippine election as standard bearer of the Bangon Pilipinas Party...

     (born 1946)

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  • Paula White
    Paula White
    Paula Michelle White is a Christian author, speaker, and church leader. She is co-founder of Without Walls International Church; a large, influential, non-denominational, charismatic church with two locations in Florida...

     (born 1966)
  • Jim Whittington
    Jim Whittington
    Reverend Jim Whittington . Whittington is a televangelist and faith healer who spent 2 1/2 years in prison for money laundering, mail fraud, conspiracy, and interstate transportation of stolen property from his evangelist crusades and direct mail business in the 1980s. In 1992, Whittington and four...

     (born 1941)
  • Michael Youssef
    Michael Youssef
    Michael Youssef, Ph.D. is the Founder and President of Leading the Way with Dr. Michael Youssef, a worldwide ministry that leads the way for people living in spiritual darkness to discover the light of Christ through the creative use of media and on-the-ground ministry teams...

     (born 1948)
  • Jack Wyrtzen
    Jack Wyrtzen
    John Von Casper "Jack" Wyrtzen was a youth evangelist and founder of Word of Life ministries, which he led for 50 years...

     (1913–1996)

See also

  • Televangelism
    Televangelism
    Televangelism is the use of television to communicate the Christian faith. The word is a portmanteau of television and evangelism and was coined by Time magazine. A “televangelist” is a Christian minister who devotes a large portion of his ministry to television broadcasting...

  • Christian televangelist scandals
  • List of televangelists in Brazil
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