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Denzel Washington Gets Baptized and Becomes a Minister on the Same Day

Everyone’s favorite actor just added another gig to his growing resume.

Denzel Washington is now a minister. On Saturday, the Gladiator II star was baptized at the Kelly Temple in New York City, where he also received a minister’s license. “It took a while, but I’m finally here,” Washington said of his journey with faith during the service’s livestream. “If [God] can do this for me, there’s nothing He can’t do for you. The sky literally is the limit.” The soon-to-be 70-year-old penned an essay for Esquire in November where he discussed his relationship with God and said that he was “unafraid” of the public’s reaction to his faith. “It’s my job to lift God up, to give Him praise, to make sure that anyone and everyone I speak to the rest of my life understands that He is responsible for me,” Washington wrote at the time. The actor’s wife, Pauletta Washington, was also in attendance Saturday and disclosed how proud she was of her husband. “You are the head of our house and you have set a great example for our children, who are now adult children who know the difference because we have shown them the difference,” she gushed.