Romildo Ribeiro Soares

Soares's net worth was estimated by Forbes at $125m in 2013. His other media interests include radio, publishing and music. He is considered a preacher of the prosperity gospel.

On September 10, 2008, Soares began to send daily messages by e-mail to people registered at ongrace.com. He still continues with this system, with messages translated into English and other languages.

Soares had previously been promised a scholarship to study medicine at Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, but instead founded the International Church of God's Grace (Igreja Internacional da Graça de Deus), opening the first in 1980 in the city of Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro. He remains the church's leader. He is married with Maria Magdalena and is the father of singer David Soares, deputy mayor André Soares, and three other sons.

In April 1964 Soares moved to Rio de Janeiro with his family and lived with his uncle Aderbal in São Gonçalo. Soares began his ministry in 1968.

Romildo Ribeiro Soares, best known as R. R. Soares (born December 6, 1947, in Muniz Freire, Espírito Santo), is a Brazilian televangelist, missionary, author, singer, businessman, and composer. He became a televangelist and supporter of faith healing in the late 1960s, after reading a book by T. L. Osborn. Related through marriage to another Brazilian preacher, Edir Macedo, he founded the International Church of God's Grace in 1980. This church is among the largest Pentecostal denominations in Brazil. R. R. Soares averages about 100 hours on Brazilian television each week.