Who is Pastor Robert Kayanja? Flash Uganda Media looks at his biography, age, house, family, age, church ministry, preaching, songs, wife of the founder and Senior Pastor of the Miracle Centre Cathedral.
Pastor Robert Kayanja is a Ugandan pastor, evangelist, author, singer and motivational speaker.
He is the founder and Senior Pastor of the Miracle Centre Cathedral, a megachurch in Rubaga, a Kampala suburb. He preaches the message of ministering Love in a hurting world.
He is also the founder and CEO of a Christian television station, Channel 44 Television.
Net Worth
With a net worth of more than 2.1 million dollars, or around 7.2 billion Ugandan shillings, Pastor Robert Kayanja is among the richest pastors in Uganda.
He uses the money he receives from his church to support the underprivileged children who attend his church and live in the countryside.
Kayanja possesses enormous tracts of land surrounding Lake Victoria, the largest freshwater basin in Africa.
Early Life
Pastor Robert Kayanja was born in Masooli Gayaza, in Wakiso district to John Walakira (father) and Ruth Walakira (mother).
He is a muganda by tribe.
Robert Kayanja was a miracle baby; it came down to a life-or-death choice between saving his mother and him, but God intervened just in time. He was born with a stutter.
Kayanja was called to serve God at the age of 17 and began his ministry, at the age of 22.
Pastor Robert Kayanja finished his Primary and High School Education in Kampala, Uganda.
Family Background
Pastor Kayanja is the younger brother of David Makumbi, a bishop in a Ugandan church, and John Sentamu, the former Anglican Archbishop of York.
Family Life
Pastor Robert Kayanja married Jessica Kayanja in 1992. In their first five marriage years, they struggled for children.
The couple now has three children, Robert Kayanja Jr. and twin daughters Kirstein and Kristiana. In 2004, Kristiana beat brain cancer.
In October 2023, their eldest son, Robert Kayanja Jr and his Latvian partner, Marlena Gailis got married.
Career and Professional Work Experience
Pastor Robert Kayanja started the Miracle Centre church together with other young ministers in a papyrus reed structure in Masooli, central Uganda.
Miracle Centre Cathedral has been growing over the years since its inception, and today it’s one of the largest church buildings in Uganda housing over 10,000 people.
In over 36 years of ministry, Kayanja has preached in over 80 nations of the world performing miracles, signs and wonders.
Kayanja is the overseer of the Miracle Bible College, the Bucket Project, the Never Again Children’s Project and the Kapeeka Orphanage and Primary School.
He is a frequent speaker on Daystar Television Network, the chairman of AfriAid and the director of Miracle Television.
He has also founded over 1,000 churches under Miracle Centre Church across Uganda.
Other Career accomplishments
Pastor Robert Kayanja has written the Holy Spirit series. He is also famously known for the Holy Spirit 77 DAYS OF GLORY.
He has also sung songs like; Faithful To Me, I Love the Way, I Want to Know You, You Are Holy, Let Your Glory Come, Proclaim- My Hope and Trust in You, We Exalt Your Name lord I Believe, Finally, Lord I Believe, I Love the Way You Handle My Situations, Best Days, Seek Your Face, Enter His Gates, I Know a Man.
Achievements and Awards
Pastor Robert Kayanja received an award for his contribution to the food security situation in the Karamoja subregion by Uganda Breweries Limited during the UBL’s Annual Farmers Symposium that took place in Kampala in October 2023.
In 2014, Kayanja took home the Worldsavers Man of the Year Award.
Pastor Robert Kayanja and General Salim Saleh received praise from President Yoweri Museveni for leading the effort to provide food relief to South Sudan.
He also won the VIGA Merit Award, the country’s National Interdenominational Gospel Awards.
Controversies
Kayanja predicted on December 31, 2005, that a presidential candidate would pass away. Although this did not happen before the election, MPs voiced their concerns.
He faced criticism in 2006 for accumulating fortune and building a castle on the shores of Lake Victoria in the Kampala neighbourhood of Gaba.
Saying that the mansion was a marriage gift for his wife, Kayanja advised the detractors to shut up.
In 2009, Kayanja was charged with sexually abusing two adolescent male churchgoers.
The teens had gotten help from other pastors to file their allegations, which they eventually withdrew.
Supporters of Kayanja charged adversaries with trying to harm his name before American preacher Benny Hinn paid a visit to the Miracle Center Cathedral.
Kayanja was eventually cleared of sodomy by the police. Additionally, they convicted his accusers of plotting to harm his character.
In October 2012, Buganda Road Court found six people guilty of plotting to discredit Pastor Robert Kayanja’s name and career, fined them one million shillings (about $390 US) each, and required them to perform 100 hours of community service.
Among them was Pastor Martin Ssempa.
The public was alerted by the National Drug Authority (NDA) about the existence of a fake acaricide called “Tickoff,” which Pastor Robert Kayanja was manufacturing and promoting at his church.
They said that although Pastor Kayanja and his group refused to provide the product’s contents, the NDA, in collaboration with Uganda Police, seized more than 100 samples from his church’s supply stores and brought them to government chemist labs.
Results showed that the acaricide was harmful, according to an NDA spokesperson.
The NDA claimed in the statement that the substances were packaged without a label, date, or component information and were being combined with animal feed and “mukene.”
Pastor Robert Kayanja, however, dismissed these claims by the National Drug Authority (NDA) about Tickoff. He claimed the defamatory allegations were intended to damage his reputation as a man of God.
