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South Korean Christian minister (1936–2021)

In this Korean name, the family name is Cho.

David Yonggi Cho (Korean: 조용기; 14 February 1936 – 14 September 2021 as Paul Yungi Cho) was a South Korean PentecostalPastor.

He was the founder of the Yoido Full Gospel Church (Assemblies of God), which he started in a tent with 5 people (including his future mother-in-law Choi Ja-shil and her children as its first members), which eventually became the world's largest congregation, with a membership of 830,000 (as of 2007^[update]).^[1]

Early life

Cho was born on 14 February 1936, in Ulju County, now part of Ulsan.^[2] The son of Cho Doo-chun and Kim Bok-sun, Cho was the eldest of five brothers and four sisters.

He graduated from middle school with honours. Because his father's sock and glove business went bankrupt, he could not afford high school or university tuition. Subsequently, he enrolled in an inexpensive technical high sc