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Josiah Olufemi Akindayomi, from Yoruba into English. In Adeboye was appointed General Overseer the church, taking over from Papa Akindayomi, who had died the previous year. For three years he filled the role part-time, still lecturing at Ilorin, until giving up his university position to preach full-time. The church, which was not well known before Adeboye took charge, now claims branches in over a hundred countries, including more than 14, in Nigeria.

Adeboye has stated that his aim is to put a church within five minutes of every person on Earth. In , Newsweek magazine named Adeboye one of the fifty most powerful people in the world. Pastor E. Adeboye was born on 2nd March at Ifewara in the present day Osun State. His parents now of blessed memory were indigenes of the town, which is about midway between Ilesha and Ondo towns.

He had a strict Christian upbringing which was engineered by a church-going culture, which was the prevalent style of Christianity of those days.

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This church-going attitude gave him an appreciation of God but made no extraordinary or outstanding Christian out of him. He underwent primary and secondary education which were almost curtailed due to the problem of funds, barefooted and in tears. However, as God would have it, he survived against all odds to graduate from the University in , at the age of Between and he had added two more degrees, an M.

Before his lectureship at these Universities, the G. It would appear that his academic and professional career and achievement greatly prepared him for the office into which God was to call him later on. His childhood Christian background had made him appreciate God in the ordinary sense.