Welcome to the MedLibrary.org Wikipedia Supplement on List of religious leaders in 1942 -- Please Click to Return to Front Page

1941 religious leaders - Events of 1942 - 1943 religious leaders - Religious leaders by year

Contents 1 Christianity 1.1 Catholic 1.2 Catholic not in communion with Rome 1.3 Assyrian Christianity 1.4 Protestant and offshoots 1.5 Other Christian 2 Judaism 3 Islam and its offshoots 3.1 Ismaili 3.2 Ahmadiyya 4 Buddhism

Christianity

Catholic

• Roman Catholic Church - Pope Pius XII (1939-1958)

Catholic not in communion with Rome

• Polish National Catholic Church - First Prime Bishop Franciszek Hodur: Founder presided as Prime Bishop from (1924-1946)

Assyrian Christianity

• Assyrian Church of the East-Assyrian Patriarch in Qochanis Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII (1920-1975)

Protestant and offshoots

• Church of England - Archbishop of Canterbury Cosmo Lang(1928-1942)
• Church of Sweden - Archbishop of Uppsala - Erling Eidem(1931–1950)
• Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod - President John W. Behnken (1935 - 1962)
• The Salvation Army - General George Carpenter (1939-1946)
• New Apostolic Church - Johann Gottfried Bischoff, Chief Apostle (1930-1960)

Other Christian

• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) - Heber J. Grant, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1918 - 1945)
• Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Now called Community of Christ) - Frederick Madison Smith (1914–1946)

Judaism

• Chief rabbi of British Mandate of Palestine
  • Ashkenazi-Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog(1936-1948)
• Chief rabbi of the British Empire- Joseph H. Hertz(1913 to his death in January 14, 1946)

Islam and its offshoots

Ismaili

• Nizari - Aga Khan III (1885-1957)
• Dawoodi Bohras - Syedna Taher Saifuddin (1915-1965)

Ahmadiyya

• Ahmadiyya Muslim Community-Khalifatul Masih II Hazrat Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmood Ahmad (1914-1965)
• Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement-Maulana Muhammad Ali(Amir 1914-1951)

Buddhism

• Tibetan Buddhism - Fourteenth Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso (Officially 1935-present, but not discovered until 1937. See explanation at Dalai Lama)

Wikipedia content modification information:

• This page was last modified on 18 February 2007, at 20:13.

Wikipedia Authorship and Review

Wikipedia content provided here is not reviewed directly by MedLibrary.org. Wikipedia content is authored by an open community of volunteers and is not produced by or in any way affiliated with MedLibrary.org.

Wikipedia Usage Guidelines

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article on "List of religious leaders in 1942".

The URL for this specific entry is:

• http://medlibrary.org/medwiki/List_of_religious_leaders_in_1942

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details). Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.