Ahn Sahng-hong
South Korean religious leader (1918–1985)
Ahn Sahng-hong (Korean: 안상홍; Hanja: 安商洪; 13 January 1918 – 25 February 1985) was a South Korean religious leader and founder of the Church of God Jesus Witnesses. In 1948, after receiving baptism from a Seventh-day Adventist minister, he began to call for the restoration of the truth of the New Covenant and the last religious reformation. In 1964 he established the Church of God in Busan. During his life, Ahn had thirteen churches in Korea. After Ahn Sahng-hong's death, the church declared him as the Second Coming Christ.
Early life
He was born on 13 January 1918 in the small, rural village of Myeongdeok-ri in the North Jeolla Province at a time when Korea was under Japanese rule. From 1937, during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II, Ahn and his mother lived in Japan over a nine-year period. He returned to Korea in 1946. The family migrated to Busan, the city in which he would later found his church.
Establishment of his own church
Ahn began attending the local congregation of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1947 and received baptism in 1948.
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