Richard Roberts is an American

United States

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 evangelist

Evangelism

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. Roberts is chairman and chief executive officer of the Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association. Since his healing ministry began in 1980, he has preached on six continents. Holding his first overseas crusade in South Africa in 1982, he has since traveled to more than 39 nations throughout the world. Roberts also served as president of Oral Roberts University

Oral Roberts University

Oral Roberts University , based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the United States, is an interdenominational, Charismatic Christian, comprehensive university with an enrollment of about 3,790 students from 49 U.S. states along with a significant number of international students from 70 countries...

 (ORU) for 15 years. After Roberts stepped down, the outgoing ORU board of regents elected him president emeritus

Emeritus

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