Popular religious leader currently for his prayer lives on YouTube, the priest, singer and digital influencer Friar Gilson 38, accumulates about 18, 2 million followers on social networks, including accounts on the video platform, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Tiktok.
Friar Gilson still accumulates about 1.5 million monthly listeners on the Spotify audio streaming platform. There, your most popular song, “I will follow” there are 30 million plays. Other popular tracks are “Calm my storm” (almost 24 million) and “let God dream of you” (almost 17 million). In addition, he commands the Sound of the Mount musical group that aims to lead people to a deep experience of prayer.
Also very active on Tiktok, he gives preaching daily videos that beat thousands of views.
Who is Friar Gilson
Gilson da Silva Pupo Azevedo is a priest that belongs to the Institute of the Freis Carmelites Messengers of Espírito Santo, in São Paulo/SP. He was ordained in 2013, when he was, for nine years, in charge of the Parish of Our Lady of Carmo of the Diocese of Santo Amaro, in São Paulo.
He has gathered faithful in live broadcasts, which beat millions of views, made at dawn in order to pray during Lent, period of penance and reflection preceding Easter.
Live this Thursday (13) Already hits 3 million views on YouTube.
The Frei Lives sometimes have the participation of known personalities, such as the humorist and host of Podcast Intelligence Ltda, Rodrigo Vilela, and the countryman Zé Neto, which further boosts his numbers on the internet.
Nevertheless, netizens have rescued controversial statements made by the priest in their lives, causing the priest to become a central figure of clash between political fields on the Internet in recent days, as when he stated that women were created to “heal the loneliness of man” and that they should therefore help them.
He has also given political opinions and other controversial statements.
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This content was originally published in Frei Gilson “Bomba” on social networks with over 18 million followers on CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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