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Korean Christian minister

Aimee Semple McPherson

Canadian-American evangelist and media celebrity

Albertus Magnus

13th century German Dominican friar and saint

Co-founder and first pastor of the Schwarzenau Brethren

Alexius, Metropolitan of Kiev

Metropolitan of Russia

Aloysius Gonzaga

16th-century Italian Jesuit seminarian and saint

Alphonsus Liguori

Italian Catholic bishop (1696–1787)

Bishop of Milan; one of the four original doctors of the Church

Andrew the Apostle

Religious figure of the Christian faith

Anselm of Canterbury

11th and 12th-century Archbishop of Canterbury, theologian, and saint

Anthony of Padua

Franciscan friar and Doctor of the Church

Anthony the Great

Christian saint, monk, and hermit

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

American minister

Apostles in the New Testament

Primary disciples of Jesus in the New Testament

Priest in Alexandria; founder of Arianism

Athanasius of Alexandria

Patriarch of Alexandria

Augustine of Canterbury

Missionary, Archbishop of Canterbury, and saint

Early Christian disciple and bishop

Bartholomew the Apostle

Christian Apostle and Martyr

Basil of Caesarea

4th-century Christian bishop, theologian, and saint

Benedict of Nursia

Catholic saint and monk

Bernard of Clairvaux

Burgundian saint, abbot and theologian (1090-1153)

Group of distinguished foreigners who visited Jesus after his birth

American Christian evangelist

Founder of the Knights Hospitaller

Italian theologian (1221–1274)

19th-century Latter Day Saint religious leader

Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo

Roman Catholic bishop

Catherine of Siena

Italian Dominican saint (1347–1380)

Charles Coughlin

Canadian-American Catholic priest (1891–1979)

Charles Fox Parham

American preacher and evangelist

Charles Grandison Finney

American minister and writer (1792–1875)

Charles Reynolds (cleric)

Irish Catholic cleric

Charles Spurgeon

British preacher, author, pastor and evangelist

Charles Taze Russell

Founder of the Bible Student movement

English Methodist and hymn writer (1707–1788)

Clement of Alexandria

Christian theologian (c.150 – c.215)

Clement of Rome

Fourth Pope of the Catholic Church from AD 88 to 99

Saint and second wife of the Frankish king Clovis I

Irish missionary monk, one of Ireland's three patron saints

Cornelius Jansen

Bishop and theologian (1585-1638)

Puritan clergyman (1663–1728)

Cyprian, Metropolitan of Kiev

Russian bishops

Cyril and Methodius

Byzantine Slavic brothers

Cyril of Alexandria

Patriarch of Alexandria

Cyril of Jerusalem

4th-century Christian theologian, bishop, and saint

3rd-century Bishop of Paris and saint

South African churchman, archbishop, and Nobel Prize winner

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

German theologian and dissident anti-Nazi

Dionysius Exiguus

Byzantine saint

American journalist, anarchist social activist, Catholic convert and Servant of God

16th-century English Jesuit priest, martyr and saint

Elizabeth Ann Seton

American Roman Catholic educator and saint (1774–1821)

American author and co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church

Emanuel Swedenborg

18th-century Swedish scientist and theologian

Ephrem the Syrian

4th century Syrian deacon, hymnographer and theologian

Belgian Roman Catholic priest and saint

Faustina Kowalska

Nun and saint from Poland

Frances Xavier Cabrini

Italian-American Roman Catholic nun and saint

Methodist bishop in America

Francis de Sales

Bishop of Geneva

Francis of Assisi

Italian Catholic saint (c. 1181–1226)

Spanish Catholic saint and missionary (1506–1552)

Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros

Catholic cardinal (1436-1517)

François Fénelon

French archbishop, theologian and writer (1651–1715)

Franklin Graham

American Christian evangelist and missionary (born 1952)

Fulton J. Sheen

American catholic bishop and television presenter

English Dissenter and founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

Australian Catholic cardinal (1941–2023)

George Ripley (transcendentalist)

American transcendentalist community founder

George Whitefield

18th-century English minister and preacher

Gregory of Narek

Armenian 10th century monk

Gregory of Nazianzus

Archbishop of Constantinople from 379 to 381

Gregory of Nyssa

4th-century bishop of Nyssa, Asia Minor

Grigori Rasputin

Heinrich Kramer

German churchman and inquisitor

Henry Ward Beecher

American clergyman and abolitionist (1813–1887)

Hilary of Poitiers

Bishop of Poitiers (c. 310 – c. 367)

Hosius of Corduba

Huldrych Zwingli

Protestant Reformation leader in Switzerland, Swiss Reformed Church founder (1484-1531)

American Religious Leader

Ignatius of Antioch

Patriarch of Antioch from 68 to 107

Ignatius of Loyola

16th-century Catholic priest, theologian and saint; founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits)

Innocent of Alaska

Russian bishop and saint

2nd-century Greek bishop and saint

Isidore of Kiev

Catholic cardinal

Isidore of Seville

Spanish bishop, confessor and doctor of the Catholic Church

Jacobus Arminius

Dutch theologian, inspirator of Arminianism

Jacobus de Voragine

Italian chronicler and archbishop of Genoa (c.1230-1298)

Jacques Maritain

French philosopher

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

French bishop and theologian

Swiss Brethren minister from whom the Amish received their name

American publisher, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (1821–1881)

James the Great

One of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus

James, brother of Jesus

Brother of Jesus according to the New Testament

James, son of Alphaeus

One of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ

Czech theologian and philosopher

4th and 5th-century Catholic priest, theologian, and saint

American evangelical pastor, televangelist, and conservative political commentator

Central figure of Christianity

American televangelist

American televangelist and author

German theologian

German Dominican friar and seller of indulgences

French Protestant reformer (1509–1564)

John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore)

First Roman Catholic bishop and archbishop in the United States

John Chrysostom

Archbishop of Constantinople from 347 to 407

John Flynn (minister)

Australian Presbyterian minister and founder of the Royal Flying Doctor Service

Canadian-American faith healer and missionary (1870–1935)

John Henry Newman

English cleric and cardinal

Scottish clergyman, writer and historian (1514–1572)

American Methodist and founder of the YMCA

Spanish priest and Doctor of the Church

John of Damascus

8th-century Byzantine monk and saint

John of the Cross

Spanish Catholic priest, friar, mystic, and saint

John Smyth (English theologian)

English Baptist minister

English Anglican presbyter and theologian (1921–2011)

John the Apostle

Apostle of Jesus

John the Baptist

1st-century prophet

Founder of the Methodist movement

English theologian

Jonathan Edwards (theologian)

American preacher and philosopher

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Second president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

Founder of the Latter Day Saint movement

Disciple and betrayer of Christ

Jude the Apostle

One of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus

Junípero Serra

Christian missionary

Swiss Protestant theologian (1886–1968)

11th-century Archbishop of Canterbury, jurist and theologian

Lawrence of Brindisi

Roman Catholic priest and a theologian

Lazarus of Bethany

Subject of a prominent miracle of Jesus in the Gospel of John

Luke the Evangelist

One of the four traditionally ascribed authors of the canonical gospels

Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow

Russian cleric, Iconographer and Saint

Marcion of Sinope

Early Christian theologian (c.85–c.160)

Mark the Evangelist

Apostle of Jesus

Biblical figure

16th-century German Prostestant reformer

German priest, theologian and author (1483–1546)

Martin of Tours

4th-century Christian cleric and saint

Mary Baker Eddy

American religious leader

Australian foundress and saint

Follower of Jesus

Mary, mother of Jesus

Mother of Jesus Christ, according to the Christian New Testament

Catholic missionary

Matthew the Apostle

Christian evangelist and apostle

Matthias the Apostle

Apostle died circa AD 80

Meister Eckhart

13/14th-century German theologian, philosopher and mystic

Dutch theologian, namesake for the Mennonites

Michael I Cerularius

Ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople

Mikael Agricola

16th-century Finnish clergyman and de facto founder of literary Finnish

Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910–1997)

Archbishop of Constantinople from 428 to 431

American religious leader (1918–2009)

Early Christian scholar, ascetic, and theologian (c. 184–c. 253)

Archbishop of San Salvador from 1977 to 1980

20th-century Italian saint, priest stigmatist and mystic

Papias of Hierapolis

Greek Apostolic Father, Bishop of Hierapolis and author (c.60-c.130 AD)

American media mogul and minister (1930–2023)

Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow

Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus'

Patriarch Hermogenes of Moscow

Patriarch Job of Moscow

Patriarch of Moscow from 1589 to 1605

Patriarch Joseph of Moscow

Sixth Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia (1642—1652)

Patriarch Nikon of Moscow

Seventh Patriarch of Moscow (1605 - 1681)

Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow

Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow

19th and 20th-century Russian Orthodox priest, patriarch, and saint

Paul the Apostle

Christian apostle and missionary

American television evangelist (born 1966)

Dutch Jesuit Catholic priest

Peter Chrysologus

Bishop of Ravenna

Eleventh-century Benedictine monk

Jesuit priest and evangelist

Peter the Hermit

11th century French Christian priest and key figure during the First Crusade

Philaret Drozdov

Russian bishop (1783-1867)

English Nonconformist clergyman and diarist

Philip II, Metropolitan of Moscow

Russian Orthodox bishop, venerated as a saint and martyr

Philip Melanchthon

German reformer

Philip the Apostle

Christian saint and apostle

Evangelist and writer

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

French philosopher and Jesuit priest (1881–1955)

Pierre-Jean De Smet

Christian bishop of Smyrna (69-155)

Roman governor of Judaea and condemner of Jesus

Head of the Catholic Church from 678 to 681

Pope Alexander I

6th Pope of the Catholic Church from c. 107 to c. 115

Pope Benedict XV

Head of the Catholic Church from 1914 to 1922

Pope Benedict XVI

Head of the Catholic Church from 2005 to 2013

Bishop of Rome from 366 to 384

266th pope of the Catholic Church

64th Bishop of Rome; head of the Roman Catholic Church from AD 590 to 604

Pope Gregory II

89th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church (from 715 to 731)

Pope Honorius I

Pope John Paul II

Head of the Catholic Church from 1978 to 2005

Pope John XXIII

Head of the Catholic Church from 1958 to 1963

Pope from 440 to 461

96th Pope between 795-816

Head of the Catholic Church from 1049 to 1054

Head of the Catholic Church from 1878 to 1903

Head of the Catholic Church from c. 68 to c. 80 AD

Head of the Catholic Church from 1963 to 1978

Head of the Catholic Church from 1846 to 1878

Head of the Catholic Church from 1903 to 1914

Head of the Catholic Church from 1939 to 1958

Pope Sylvester I

33rd pope and saint (reigned 314–335)

Pope Sylvester II

Pope (938–1003)

Pope Zephyrinus

Pope and Bishop of Rome from 199 to 217

13th and 14th-century Majorcan writer and philosopher

Richard Allen (bishop)

American educator, author, writer, and black leader (1760–1831)

Christian religious leader

Robert Bellarmine

Catholic cardinal, saint, and Doctor of the Church

English Protestant theologian and founder of the colony of Providence Plantation

Saint Christopher

Christian saint

Founder of the Dominican Order (1170–1221)

4th-century Christian saint and martyr

Husband of Mary and legal father of Jesus

4th-century Christian saint

Christian missionary, bishop, and saint

Christian apostle

1st-century early Christian martyr and saint

1st century Christian evangelist, philosopher and bishop

American Mormon leader (1793–1876)

Religious figure who confronted Peter

Simon the Zealot

Apostle of Jesus

Society for Irish Latin American Studies

Scientific society

Stefan Yavorsky

Eastern Orthodox archbishop

Tammy Faye Messner

American evangelical and singer (1942–2007)

Teresa of Ávila

Roman Catholic saint (1515–1582)

Christian theologian

Thérèse of Lisieux

French Discalced Carmelite nun and saint (1873–1897)

Thomas à Kempis

German canon regular

Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to 1170, Christian martyr

16th-century English Archbishop of Canterbury and Protestant reformer

Thomas the Apostle

Early Christian saint – one of the Twelve Apostles

16th-century Archbishop of York, Chancellor of England, and cardinal

Tomás de Torquemada

Grand Inquisitor of Spain (1420–1498)

Vladimir Bogoyavlensky

Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, Hieromartyr

William Ellery Channing

American Unitarian clergyman (1780-1842)

William J. Seymour

African American holiness pentecostal preacher

William M. Branham

American Christian minister (1909–1965)

William Miller (preacher)

American Baptist preacher

William Tyndale

Bible translator and revolutionary from England