Oral Roberts University

Oral Roberts University or ORU, based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, is the largest charismatic Christian university in the world. The school has an enrollment of over 5,000 students from every state in the US and attracts a significant number of international students.

History

Evangelist Oral Roberts founded the institution in 1963, claiming God had given him the following commissions:

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Oral Roberts - 1963 - God

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:"Build Me a University. Build it on My Authority, and on the Holy Spirit."

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and

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:"Raise up your students to hear my voice, to go where my light is dim, where my voice is heard small, and my healing power is not known, even to the uttermost bounds of the earth. Their work will exceed yours, and in this I am well pleased."

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The first students enrolled in 1965. Richard Roberts, Oral Roberts' son, was named President in 1993.

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1965 - Richard Roberts - 1993

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