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r/PastorArrested↗

You've seen them: headlines that contain the words PASTOR ARRESTED. Someone in the community who was supposed to be a trusted moral authority was caught doing a bad thing, very often of a financial or sexual nature. This subreddit is nothing more than a collection of those stories.

60k subscribers85 posts / mo in Sep 202625 authors / mosince 2016

r/PastorArrested has 60k members (+7.6% over the last 12 months). It gets about 85 posts a month from 25 people. Top topics: School Scandals, Catholic Abuse Cases and Murder and Sentencing Cases.

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Size and growth

How r/PastorArrested has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+7.6%in 12 months · +1.9% in 3 months · +0.8% in 1 month
Oct 202660k
Growing60k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
r/PastorArrested

Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−7.6%vs Sep 2025 · −11% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 202685
QuieterPeaked at 201 in Sep 2024
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/PastorArrested

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. School Scandals1.2%
  2. Catholic Abuse Cases0.6%
  3. Murder and Sentencing Cases0.2%
  4. Fraud and Theft Cases0.2%
  5. Political Corruption and Scandals0.1%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Archive
  2. Joe.My.God.
  3. Yahoo!
  4. The Christian Post
  5. CBC

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research