Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus

1977-20??


Edir Macedo was a member of the igreja Nova Vida - the Canadian Pentecostal missionary Robert McAlister who came to Brazil in 1960 - for about twelve years when along with Romildo Ribeiro Soares, Roberto Augusto Lopes, the brothers Samuel and Fidélis Coutinho, Carlos Rodrigues and Marcelo Crivella, his nephew, in 1974 began the ministério Cruzada do Caminho Eterno. Before that, both Macedo and Soares had not exercised ecclesiastical positions, having been consecrated shepherds in the House of the Blessing by the missionary Cecílio Carvalho Fernandes. Two years later, because of disagreements between the brothers Coutinho, Macedo, Soares and Roberto Lopes leave the Eternal Path and found on 9 July 1977 the Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus as known IURD in a shed that previously operated a funeral parlor in the Suburban Avenue, in number 7,702, in the Carioca neighborhood of Abolition. The mother of Edir Macedo, Eugenia, was the guarantor of the property, putting her apartment - situated in Largo da Glória - as a guarantee.