HAMDEN, Conn. -- Connecticut’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit against a pastor, claiming he transferred a Hamden church’s property into his own name and used the money from the mortgage for his own purposes.

Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said the pastor of a West Haven church claimed to own the property of a Hamden church and took out a $1.5 million mortgage. He is calling the incident a "church hijacking" and has claimed the Macedonia church was taken by an impostor.

“We alleged that Willie McKay fraudulently transferred this property to his own church to exploit it for his own personal use,” Blumenthal said.

McKay is the pastor at the Love Temple Church in West Haven, but Blumenthal said he posed as the pastor of Macedonia and took over the property in 2005.

"This impostor pastor has literally attempted a church hijacking," Blumenthal said in a news release.

“What this impostor did was fraudulently doctor the documents, then file them at town hall, transfer the property (and), take a mortgage in its name,” Blumenthal said.

McKay then allegedly defaulted on the $1.5 million mortgage in 2007 and used the money for his own purposes.

When asked about the allegations, McKay referred NBC 30 to his attorney, but said he was the rightful owner of the Macedonia church because his grandfather founded the church in 1963.

Blumenthal said the elder McKay gifted the property to the church in 1965.