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Christian religious leader

Richard Duane Warren (born January 28, 1954) is an American Baptistevangelical Christianpastor and author.^[1][2][3] He is the founder of Saddleback Church, an evangelical Baptistmegachurch in Lake Forest, California.

Since 2022, he serves as executive director of the Finishing the Task mission coalition.

Early life and education

Warren was born in San Jose, California,^[4][5] the son of Jimmy and Dot Warren.^[6] His father was a Baptist minister, his mother a high-school librarian.

He was raised in Ukiah, California, and graduated from Ukiah High School in 1972, where he founded the first Christian club on the school's campus.^[7]

He studied at California Baptist University in Riverside, California and earned a Bachelor of Arts, then he studied at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas and earned a Master of Divinity in 1979.

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