2026 Edition · Top 100
Yvan Castanou
Pasteur Principal (Senior/Lead Pastor) · Impact Centre Chrétien (ICC) · Ivry-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France
Yvan Castanou reaches 1.43M followers on personal accounts across YouTube, Instagram and TikTok, ranking #26 on REACHRIGHT's 2026 Pastor Influence 100. The largest single audience is Instagram, at 634K followers.
Score Breakdown
Personal accounts only · data collected August 15, 2026 · methodology
Platform Presence
What counts
Four platforms are scored: YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook. Only accounts the pastor operates count here. Church-branded accounts are scored separately in the Church Influence 100.
About Yvan Castanou
Yvan Castanou is senior pastor of Impact Centre Chretien (ICC) in Ivry-sur-Seine, near Paris, a church he co-founded with his twin brother, Yves Castanou, in 2002.
Castanou trained at the Institut Biblique de Paris and the Academy of Advanced Theological and Pastoral Studies before launching ICC. He was ordained as a pastor in March 2004 alongside his wife, Modestine Castanou. The church has since grown into a network of more than 100 congregations worldwide, drawing a reported 43,000 attendees each Sunday across Europe, Africa, North America, and the Caribbean.
No Facebook page is currently tracked for Castanou, so his 1.43 million reach comes from three platforms. Instagram leads at 634,000 followers, YouTube holds 469,000 subscribers with 25.4 percent growth this year, and TikTok adds 330,100.
The Church Behind the Platform
Pasteur Principal (Senior/Lead Pastor)
Impact Centre Chrétien (ICC)
Ivry-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France
Impact Centre Chrétien (ICC) is not ranked in the 2026 Church Influence 100. The two indexes measure different things: one scores church-branded accounts, this one scores the pastor's own.
A personal following is a trust account. People follow a name, hear a voice, and decide what to believe about the church behind it. That is a weight to carry well, not a scoreboard to win.
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Yvan Castanou: Quick Answers
Who is Yvan Castanou?
Yvan Castanou is senior pastor of Impact Centre Chretien (ICC) in Ivry-sur-Seine, near Paris, a church he co-founded with his twin brother, Yves Castanou, in 2002.
How many followers does Yvan Castanou have?
As of June 2026, Yvan Castanou reaches 1.43M followers across personal accounts: 469K YouTube subscribers, 634K Instagram followers, 330K TikTok followers. These figures count accounts the pastor operates, not the church's official accounts.
What church does Yvan Castanou pastor?
Yvan Castanou serves as Pasteur Principal (Senior/Lead Pastor) of Impact Centre Chrétien (ICC) in Ivry-sur-Seine, France.
Is Yvan Castanou still the pastor of Impact Centre Chrétien (ICC)?
At the June 2026 data collection, Impact Centre Chrétien (ICC) listed Yvan Castanou as Pasteur Principal (Senior/Lead Pastor). We report leadership exactly as each church publishes it, and the index is rebuilt every year. Check the church's own site for the current staff listing.
Where does Yvan Castanou rank among the most influential pastors online?
Yvan Castanou ranks #26 on the 2026 REACHRIGHT Pastor Influence 100 with an Influence Score of 70.8 out of 100, scored on audience reach (50 percent), growth velocity (30 percent), and platform breadth (20 percent).
How fast is Yvan Castanou's audience growing?
The YouTube channel Yvan Castanou runs grew 25 percent in the twelve months before June 2026, reaching 469K subscribers. That measured growth scores 77.5 out of 100 on the velocity pillar, which is 30 percent of the Influence Score.
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