He was 90.

"Today, our hearts are heavy as we share that Brother Swaggart has finished his earthly race and entered into the presence of His Savior, Jesus Christ. Today was the day he has sung about for decades. He met his beloved Savior and entered the portals of glory. At the same time, we rejoice knowing that we will see him again one day," according to an announcement from his ministry posted on social media.

Swaggart was hospitalized June 15 after going into cardiac arrest and being treated by paramedics, the televangelist's son, Donnie, told congregants at the Family Worship Center Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, during a weekend prayer meeting after his father was taken to the Baton Rouge General Medical Center. Though paramedics were able to restore the elder Swaggart's heartbeat, he did not regain consciousness, according to his son, leaving him in critical condition.

 "Without a miracle, his time will be short," Donnie Swaggart told congregants in mid-June.

Swaggart remained hospitalized for days, never regaining consciousness. On Sunday (June 29), Donnie Swaggart told worshippers at the church that the family had gathered around his father and it was just a matter of time. 

"We want his last days to be comfortable," he said. "We want him to be surrounded by his family."

In announcing Swaggart's death, the family thanked the staff, doctors and nurses who cared for him.

A legendary Pentecostal televangelist and musician — his cousins were country star Mickey Gillis and rock pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis — Swaggart was once one of the best-known preachers in America, filling stadiums for crusades in the early 1980s, building a massive radio and television following, raising more than $100 million a year for his ministry and feuding with rival televangelists Jim Bakker and Oral Roberts.

After Swaggart was accused of trying to take over Bakker's troubled Praise the Lord ministry, Bakker's lawyer warned that there would be consequences. "You will bring down the pillars of the temple on your own head like Samson," Bakker's attorney Norman Roy Grutman said in March 1987, according to The Washington Post.

Within a year, Swaggart would join Bakker in falling from grace — in large part due to a feud with Marvin Gorman, a Louisiana televangelist whom Swaggart had accused of sexual misconduct. Gorman turned around and sued Swaggart and also hired a private detective to follow him. Eventually Swaggart was photographed visiting a prostitute in New Orleans.