11. Edir Macedo (Net Worth $1.1 Billion)
Edir Macedo Bezerra is a Brazilian preacher and theologian, media mogul, and chairman of Rede Record, the second-largest television network in his home country… oh and he owns a bank.
You read that number correctly, that is not a misprint, he is estimated to be worth 1.1 Billion dollars. While plenty of controversy has surrounded the man, including a televised kicking of a Catholic icon on his show which landed one of his pastors in prison for two years, he is also probably the most understandably rich person on this list. He isn’t just a pastor, so it goes without saying that all of his other dealings have helped him reach that big “B” and dropped the “M” in his bank account. He is a Prosperity Gospel preacher, which he obviously believes in at some levels, look what it has done for his life.