Brief Note/Biography » Edir Macedo Bezerra better known as Bishop Edir Macedo, he is evangelical leader and the founder of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, is evangelical leader and media mogul, owner and chairman of the second-largest television network in Brazil, Rede Record, since 1989 with its parent Central Record de Comunicação, which he also founded after he bought the network. Macedo was raised Catholic, but by 1970 converted to Pentecostalism. He founded with others the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil in 1977. He is referred to with sneer quotes as "Bishop" Edir Macedo by Forbes, the world's richest pastor according Forbes.