The Episcopalians opened up a job center in his 100-year-old parish house that a wealthy suburban church helped rehabilitate.

It's a huge, wealthy, influential church, yet one that manages to stay largely invisible outside of Utah and Idaho.

Clerics from the wealthiest churches and cathedrals had robes as fine as any worn by nobles and princes.

In 1518, Zwingli was given a post at the wealthy collegiate church of the Grossmünster in Zürich, where he remained until his death.

The wealthy American church, meanwhile, contributes significant money overseas.

That mostly came down to the more wealthy church having, over the years, given financial support to the less wealthy.

With a silver-covered altar, it is said to be Bolivia's wealthiest church.

The controversy over musical instruments began in 1860, when some congregations introduced organs, traditionally associated with wealthier, denominational churches.

These were attractive for less wealthy churches, and for the private chapels of the nobility.

Although the church has not released church-wide financial statements since 1959, in 1997, Time magazine called it one of the world's wealthiest churches per capita.