Ziona Chana is deceased, the man with the largest family in the world?

A 76 year old man who had 39 wives and 94 children, and who was said to be the head of the largest family in the world, died in the northeast of the Indiareported the chief minister of his home state.

Zionngaka Chana or Ziona Chana, the leader of a local Christian sect that allows polygamy, died on Sunday, he said in a tweet. Zoramthanga, the chief minister of Mizoram and it has only one name. With a total of 167 members, the family is the biggest in the world, according to local media, although it depends on whether the 33 grandchildren of If we have.

According to local media, Chana suffered from diabetes and high blood pressure. Doctors told the news agency PTI that the condition of the prolific man had deteriorated in recent weeks. He was admitted to hospital on Sunday evening, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

It’s hard to say if he was in fact the head of the world’s biggest family, as there are others who also claim the title. It is also difficult to calculate the exact size of your family. According to data collected by agencies Reuters Yes EFE, he had 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren, which adds up to 181 members. The particular record is in dispute: Winston Blackmore, leader of a polygamous Mormon sect in Canada, some 150 children of 27 wives, in total 178 people counting it, without adding his grandchildren.

If we have lived with his family in a huge pink four-story structure with a few 100 rooms at Baktawng, a remote village of Mizoram become a tourist attraction, according to Zoramthanga.

The sect, called “Chana», Was founded by the father of If we have in 1942 and has hundreds of families. If we have he married his first wife at the age of 17 and once said that he had married ten wives in one year.

The congregation was founded by the grandfather of Chana in the 1930s. In total, there are around 1,700 members, including four generations of the Chana family, many of whom work in cabinet making or ceramics. His philosophy is based on Christian principles, despite the fact that the leaders of the Presbyterian Church, the main faith of the state, reject Chana’s polygamy..

Women shared a room near their private room and locals say he liked having seven or eight of them by his side at all times.

Despite the enormous size of his family, If we have said Reuters in an interview in 2011, he wanted to make her grow even more. “I am ready to expand my family and will do anything to get married, ”he said. “I have a lot of people to take care of and hang out with, and I consider myself a lucky man.”.

(With information from Reuters, EFE and AFP) .-

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