The Most Followed Pastors on TikTok
The 100 pastors of the Pastor Influence 100, ranked by personal TikTok followers. Updated August 2026.
As of August 2026, Jerry Eze is the most followed pastor on TikTok with 2.6M followers on @pastorjerryeze, ahead of Luis & Blanca Morales (2M) and Lee Snow (1.9M). Only 8 pastors in the index have passed one million TikTok followers, and 41 of the 100 have no public account at all. This ranking comes from the Pastor Influence 100 and counts personal accounts only. Church accounts are ranked on the best church TikTok accounts list.
Top 25 Pastors on TikTok
By personal TikTok follower count, August 2026. Click any name for the full profile.
| Rank | Pastor | Followers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jerry Eze Streams of Joy International | 2.6M |
| 2 | Luis & Blanca Morales joint entry Vida Real / Luis Morales Ministries | 2M |
| 3 | Lee Snow Church of Christ at Warm Springs Road | 1.9M |
| 4 | Miz Mzwakhe Tancredi New Life Global Church | 1.6M |
| 5 | Michael Todd Transformation Church | 1.4M |
| 6 | Steven Furtick Elevation Church | 1.3M |
| 7 | Okoh Agyemang Living Yahweh 7th Day Sabbath Assemblies | 1.2M |
| 8 | Craig Groeschel Life.Church | 1.1M |
| 9 | Vladimir Savchuk Hungry Generation | 791K |
| 10 | Bobby Chandler Authentic Church | 782K |
| 11 | John Anosike Spirit Revelation Ecclesia | 700K |
| 12 | Sam Oye The Transforming Church (TTC) | 671K |
| 13 | Cash Luna Casa de Dios | 622K |
| 14 | Josh Howerton Lakepointe Church | 574K |
| 15 | Greg Locke Global Vision Bible Church | 549K |
| 16 | Joel Osteen Lakewood Church | 458K |
| 17 | Yvan Castanou Impact Centre Chrétien (ICC) | 330K |
| 18 | Mar Mari Emmanuel Christ The Good Shepherd Church (Assyrian Orthodox) | 300K |
| 19 | Lochard Remy Église de Dieu Eben-Ezer | 297K |
| 20 | Moises Bell Casa Internacional Gloria Postrera | 228K |
| 21 | Robert Kayanja Miracle Centre Cathedral | 215K |
| 22 | Godwin Ndelwa Rehoboth Neno kwa Maombi | 175K |
| 23 | Femi Emmanuel Livingspring Chapel International | 162K |
| 24 | Andres Spyker Másvida Church | 155K |
| 25 | Dag Heward-Mills First Love Church (Lighthouse) | 150K |
See the full Pastor Influence 100
Personal accounts only, collected from public platform data in August 2026.
What the TikTok Numbers Show
The shape of the platform across all 59 pastors with an account, not just the top 25.
59 of 100
pastors with a public account
91%
of all followers held by the top 25
130K
median account, against a 379K mean
1.3x
the leader against second place
The race at the top is tight. Jerry Eze leads with 2.6M, only 1.3 times the account behind. That makes TikTok the flattest top of the four platforms the index measures. On YouTube the leader sits 19.9 times ahead of second place.
The tail is where TikTok is thin. The top 5 hold 9.5M of the 22.34M followers counted, 43 percent, and the top 25 hold 91 percent. Below that the numbers fall off fast. The median account holds 130K against a 379K mean, and only 8 accounts have passed one million.
It is the least adopted platform in the index. 41 of the 100 pastors have no public TikTok account at all, which leaves TikTok with the fewest accounts and the smallest audience pool of the four: 22.34M followers against Instagram's 75.36M, YouTube's 130M, and Facebook's 120M.
The order barely resembles the index. 12 of the 25 most followed pastors on TikTok rank outside the top 40 overall. Only 2 pastors hold a top-10 position on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube at once: Jerry Eze and Steven Furtick. The 59 accounts come from 15 countries.
The takeaway
TikTok is the platform where the index reshuffles hardest. Names outside the overall top 40 sit in this top 10, and 41 pastors skip the platform entirely, which is the single biggest gap in the dataset. That is the opportunity. The pastors who show up here are not more famous. They are earlier. See how the same audiences stack up on Instagram and which of them are growing fastest.
Why TikTok Matters for Pastors
Four things about the platform that hold true whatever the follower counts do.
Distribution does not depend on followers
On most platforms you have to build an audience before anyone sees your work. TikTok serves the video first and the account second. A church that started posting last month can be seen by people who have never heard of it. That is the whole reason a list like this reshuffles.
The audience skews young
TikTok's user base runs younger than Facebook's. For a church asking where the next generation spends its attention, that makes the platform hard to ignore, and it is the one most of this index has not touched yet.
One idea per clip
The format wants a single clear thought delivered fast, with the hook in the first seconds. Sermons are full of those. The work is not writing new material. It is finding the ninety seconds inside forty minutes and cutting everything around it.
The clip travels
Vertical video posts to TikTok, Reels, and Shorts with no rework. The production cost is paid once. That is why pastors who commit to short-form tend to appear on more than one platform list, and why breadth is scored in the index at all.
How to Read This List
- What the number measures
- Public followers on the pastor's personal TikTok account in August 2026. One account, one number, read on one date.
- What it does not measure
- Views. On TikTok a clip routinely reaches many times the account's follower count, and a pastor with a modest following can be seen more often than one with ten times the followers. It also says nothing about attendance, giving, or where anybody lives.
- The limitation worth naming
- 41 of the 100 pastors in the index have no public TikTok account. They are left out of this ranking rather than placed last, because no account is not the same as a small account. Read the list as a ranking of the 59 who are there, not a verdict on the 41 who are not.
- What is excluded
- Church and ministry accounts. Those are ranked on the best church TikTok accounts list instead. Clips posted by a church about its pastor count toward the church.
Questions, Answered
Which pastor has the most TikTok followers?
Jerry Eze of Streams of Joy International has the most TikTok followers of any pastor in the 2026 Pastor Influence 100, with 2.6M on @pastorjerryeze. Luis & Blanca Morales (2M) and Lee Snow (1.9M) follow.
How many pastors in the index are on TikTok?
59 of the 100 pastors have a personal TikTok account with a public follower count. 41 do not. TikTok is the least adopted of the four platforms we measure, and it is the one where the index has the most room left.
Do church TikTok accounts count here?
No. This page counts the pastor's own account. Church-run accounts are measured in the Church Influence 100, and the two lists often name different leaders.
Why do pastors rank differently on TikTok than overall?
The overall index scores reach, velocity, and breadth across four platforms. TikTok rewards short clips and frequency, so pastors who post daily short-form can out-follow pastors with far larger churches and far larger YouTube channels. It shows in the numbers: 12 of the 25 most followed pastors on TikTok rank outside the top 40 of the overall index.
How many TikTok followers does a typical pastor in this index have?
The median account among the 59 with a public TikTok following holds 130K followers. The mean is 379K. Only 8 pastors are past one million, the fewest of the four platforms the index measures.
Is TikTok the least used platform among these pastors?
Yes. 59 of the 100 have a public TikTok account, against Instagram at 91, YouTube at 78, and Facebook at 74. The 22.34M followers counted here are also the smallest audience pool of the four: Instagram holds 75.36M, YouTube 130M, and Facebook 120M.
Is the top of the TikTok list close?
Closer than anywhere else in the index. Jerry Eze leads with 2.6M, only 1.3 times the second-largest account. On YouTube the leader holds 19.9 times the second account. The concentration sits lower down instead: the top 25 hold 91 percent of every TikTok follower counted here.
Do the same pastors lead on every platform?
Almost never. Only 2 pastors in the index hold a top-10 position on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube at the same time: Jerry Eze and Steven Furtick. The 59 TikTok accounts come from 15 countries, and the top 25 alone spans 12 of them.
Short-form is a system, not a talent.
Every pastor on this list posts on a schedule, in formats people actually watch. We run that system for churches every week: sermon clips, graphics, carousels, captions, posted for you.