Ahead of his 70th birthday, the Gladiator II star was baptised and granted his minister licence on December 21 at the Kelly Temple Church of God.
In Christ in Harlem, New York. Should he decide to do so in the future, the licence would enable him to be ordained. Pauletta Washington,
Denzel’s wife, joined him in the crowd during the ceremony, which was livestreamed on Facebook by First Jurisdiction Church of God in Christ Eastern New York. Denzel is 69 years old.
“In one week I turn 70,” he said on the webcast. “It took a while, but I’m here.” During the occasion, the Oscar winner also discussed his religion, recalling that his late mother,
Lennis Washington, had informed him that “man gives the award, God gives the reward” after “about the eighth or ninth time I lost an Academy Award.”
