Armstrong, Garner Ted

Armstrong, Garner Ted
▪ 2004

      American evangelist (b. Feb. 9, 1930, Portland, Ore.—d. Sept. 15, 2003, Tyler, Texas), ascended to celebrity in the 1950s as the principal evangelist on the radio and television programs of the Worldwide Church of God, which was founded by his father. The international popularity of The World Tomorrow, as both programs were called, helped the church achieve an estimated annual income of more than $70 million by the late 1970s. In 1978 sexual scandals and doctrinal disagreements led Armstrong's father to excommunicate him. He later formed the Church of God, International, and the Intercontinental Church of God.

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