Global megachurch network headquartered in Australia
Church in Australia
Hillsong Church
Hillsong Convention Centre in the Norwest Business Park
Country
Australia
Weekly attendance
150,000 (global), 43,000 (Australia)
Website
hillsong.com
History
Founded
1983; 41 years ago (1983)
Clergy
Senior pastor(s)
Phil and Lucinda Dooley
Laity
Music group(s)
Hillsong Worship
Hillsong United
Hillsong Young & Free
Hillsong Church
Theology
Charismatic
Polity
Independent
Structure
Hillsong Global Board, Hillsong Eldership
Headquarters
Baulkham Hills, New South Wales, Australia
Founder
Brian Houston and Bobbie Houston
Members
150,000 (global, 2022)
Places of worship
80
Aid organization
Hillsong City Care
Tax status
Charitable institution
Hillsong Church, commonly known as Hillsong, is a charismatic Christian megachurch and a Christian association of churches based in Australia. The original church was established in Baulkham Hills, New South Wales, as Hills Christian Life Centre by Brian Houston and his wife, Bobbie Houston, in 1983. Hillsong was a member of the Australian Christian Churches – the Australian branch of the US-based Assemblies of God – until 2018, when it separated to form a new denomination. The church is known for its contemporary worship music, with groups such as Hillsong Worship, Hillsong United and Hillsong Young & Free with many musical credits and hits and a series of scandals and criticisms.
Hillsong and its music have been highly successful globally, with its presence described as a global corporate brand, but a series of scandals and criticisms have negatively affected its image in recent years. In March 2022, Houston stepped down as global senior pastor after an internal investigation found that he had breached the church's moral code of conduct for pastors by engaging in inappropriate behaviour with women on two occasions in the 2010s. Phil and Lucinda Dooley, who had been acting in the position since January 2022, took over as global senior pastors.
HillsongChurch, commonly known as Hillsong, is a charismatic Christian megachurch and a Christian association of churches based in Australia. The original...
Hillsong United (stylised as Hillsong UNITED or UNITED) is a contemporary worship collective originating from HillsongChurch. Since forming in 1998 out...
Hillsong Worship (formerly Hillsong Live) is a praise and worship collective from Sydney, Australia. They started making music in 1983 at Hillsong Church...
Sydney-based international congregation HillsongChurch, that would see The Church Channel re-branded as the Hillsong Channel—a network devoted to its ministry...
Hillsong NYC HillsongChurch UK Hillsong musicians Hillsong Global Project, musical project by Hillsong Music Australia working with various Hillsong...
The HillsongChurch started in Australia and from there spread as a Pentecostal movement. Since they started releasing recordings in 1992, they have published...
and leader in the Sydney-based band Hillsong United, a worship band of HillsongChurch. He was co-pastor at Hillsong NYC between 2010 and 2017. He is the...
Houston's son, had the idea to plant a campus of HillsongChurch in New York City. In 2010, Lentz co-founded Hillsong NYC in New York City. His appearance, particularly...
HillsongChurch has produced hundreds of Christian songs on albums since 1992 on more than fifty albums, mostly under their own label, Hillsong Music...
pastor at HillsongChurch, based in Sydney with locations around the world. He was the national president of Australian Christian Churches, the Australian...
of Churches. HillsongChurch was founded in 1983 in Sydney, New South Wales, out of two Christian Life Centre churches and has since planted churches all...
the leadership of his son Pastor Brian Houston before merging into HillsongChurch. In the last years of his life, Frank Houston faced multiple allegations...
Hillsong NYC or HillsongChurch NYC is a Manhattan-based Christian church that is part of HillsongChurch based in Australia. It was officially launched...
of the modern worship movement, she is the former worship pastor of HillsongChurch. Zschech is currently a contributing songwriter with CompassionArt...
until 2013. HillsongChurch, the largest church in ACC, separated from the ACC in 2018. The Doctrinal Basis of Australian Christian Churches contains the...
at HillsongChurch and one of several worship leaders and songwriters in Hillsong Worship group. Prior to this he was a worship pastor at Hillsong Church...
had also been added to the Hillsong album This Is Our God (2008), but later removed from the album. Representatives of churches with which Guglielmucci had...
pastor in the Australian Christian Churches. Houston and her husband, Brian were the Senior Pastors of the HillsongChurch in Baulkham Hills, Sydney, Australia...
Yoido Full Gospel Church (Korean: 여의도 순복음 교회) is a Pentecostal church affiliated with the Assemblies of God on Yeouido (Yoi Island) in Seoul, South Korea...
leader at the HillsongChurch in Sydney. From the late 1990s until 2019 he featured on the United Live albums and was one of the original Hillsong United band's...
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