years_active children birth_place religion image_size name birth_date spouse residence article_title birth_name occupation
1977 -- present amy cardiff , nickolas popoff , alex popoff west berlin , germany charismatic christian 220px peter popoff 2 july 1946 elizabeth popoff -lrb- 1970 -- present -rrb- bradbury , california peter popoff
 peter george popoff televangelist
peter popoff

peter popoff -lrb- born july 2 , 1946 -rrb- is a german american televangelist , self-proclaimed prophet and faith healer .
he conducts revival meetings and once hosted a national television program .
he initially rose to prominence in the 1980s .
in 1986 , skeptics exposed his method of receiving supposedly divine revelations from his wife via an in-ear radio receiver .
popoff declared bankruptcy in 1987 after his tactics were exposed , but he has since made a comeback using similar techniques .
according to fred m. frohock , `` the case of peter popoff is one of many egregious instances of fake healing '' .
`` most of these guys are fooled by their own theology '' , said ole anthony of the trinity foundation , which has investigated popoff and other televangelists since 1987 .
`` he 's fundamentally evil , because he knows he 's a con man . ''
