Bishops Abioye, Aremu to leave Winners Chapel

Two Vice Presidents of Living Faith Church Worldwide, well known as Winners Chapel, Bishop David Olatunji Abioye and Bishop Thomas Aremu, are set to leave the church.

The two clerics would leave the church headed by the Founder, Bishop David Oyedepo, in October 2024.

They would be departing within three days of one another, according to Church Times.

While Bishop Aremu, who heads the church at Basorun in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, will depart on October 15, Bishop Abioye, who has been with Bishop Oyedepo since 1979, will take his exit on October 18, 2024.

The valedictory service for Aremu will take place at the church in Ibadan, while that of Abioye will be held at the church in the Durumi area of Abuja.

The clerics are said to be leaving Winners Chapel based on the rules of the mandate, which is the constitution or operational manual of the Liberation Commission.

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The revised mandate puts the new age of retirement, which was formerly 60, at 58.

Only the Founder will have the privilege of a lifetime of service, after which every future leader of the commission will serve for one term or a maximum of two terms of seven years each, subject to the approval of the Board of Trustees.

This marks a new phase in the operations of the young church of less than five decades.

Bishop Abioye, who first met Bishop Oyedepo in 1979 and has been his right-hand man since then, was sent out to pastor one of the five pioneer branches in 1987.

He was consecrated in 1993 at the Garden of Faith in Barnawa, Kaduna, at the age of 32 as the youngest Bishop of a full-fledged church in recorded history.

On the other hand, Bishop Aremu, who joined the ministry full-time after serving as an accountant in secular organisations, is the only one among the seven Bishops consecrated in November 1999 at Garden of Faith in Kaduna who have remained till date.

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