CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio — Televangelist Ernest Angley, whose syndicated television broadcasts and controversial career made him an international figure, has died, according to his ministry.
Ernest Angley has gone to heaven to be with his Lord and master at 99,” Ernest Angley Ministries posted on its website on Friday.
Angley left the Baptist church when he turned 18 to become a Pentecostal and was a traveling preacher during the Great Depression, the newspaper reported.
Three years after moving to Akron, Angley’s church had grown from a parking lot tent to a $1 million building that drew 3,000 parishioners every week, The Plain Dealer reported.
He also hosted the “The 90 & 9 Club” on WBNX and bought a Boeing 747SP to transport missionaries and humanitarian aid internationally, the television station reported.
In 1984 he was arrested in Munich, Germany, on charges of fraud and practicing medicine without a license, the Beacon Journal reported.
Earnest Angry.” Williams also spoofed Angley on “Saturday Night Live,” on a comedy album and in the television situation-comedy “Mork & Mindy,” the newspaper reported.
Four years later, former Assistant Pastor Brock Miller filed a lawsuit against Angley and the church, claiming that the pastor had sexually abused him off and on for nine years.