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Religion

20 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Emmanuel Sieyès Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès Clergyman and political theorist of Third Estate sovereignty Political and party leadership · French revolutionary movement 1748–1836
Jacques Roux Jacques Roux Enragé priest who demanded controls on subsistence prices Political and party leadership · Enragés 1752–1794
Najmuddin Gotsinsky Нажмудин Гоцинский Avar religious leader and mufti of the North Caucasus who led anti-Bolshevik uprisings in Dagestan and Chechnya in 1918–1925 Military command 1859–1925
Tikhon Patriarch Тихон The patriarch who led the Russian Church through revolution Religion · Russian Orthodox Church 1865–1925
Bogd Khan Богд хаан The Tibetan-born reincarnate lama enthroned as the last great khan of Mongolia Religion 1869–1924
Georgy Apollonovich Gapon Георгий Аполлонович Гапон The priest who led the march, and ended a double agent Social movements and organizing · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1870–1906
Andrievs Niedra Andrievs Niedra Pastor and writer who headed Latvia's pro-German government of 1919 Literature and arts 1871–1942
Sergei Nikolayevich Bulgakov Сергей Николаевич Булгаков The Marxist economist who became a priest and built the theological system of Sophia Scholarship and theory 1871–1944
Benjamin Pavlovich Kazansky Василий Павлович Казанский A metropolitan who defended church control of famine relief while protecting sacred objects Religion · Russian Orthodox Church 1873–1922
Avgustyn Voloshyn Августин Волошин Greek Catholic priest who became president of Carpatho-Ukraine when it declared independence in March 1939 Government and administration · Czechoslovakia 1874–1945
Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky Павел Александрович Флоренский Russian Orthodox priest-theologian who worked on Soviet electrification while wearing his cassock Religion · Russian Orthodox Church 1882–1937
Jusztinián Serédi Serédi Jusztinián Benedictine cardinal who led the Hungarian Catholic Church as Archbishop of Esztergom and Prince Primate in 1927–1945 Religion 1884–1945
Noman Çelebicihan Номан Челебиджихан First head of the Crimean People’s Republic, the first elected mufti of Crimea and the poet of the Crimean Tatar anthem Government and administration 1885–1918
Vincentas Borisevičius Vincentas Borisevičius Catholic bishop of Telšiai in Lithuania, executed in 1946 on charges that included supporting the partisans Religion 1887–1946
Zoltán Tildy Tildy Zoltán The Reformed pastor-president who declared neutrality before Soviet tanks Political and party leadership · Independent Smallholders' Party (FKGP) 1889–1961
József Mindszenty Mindszenty József Archbishop of Esztergom and cardinal sentenced to life in a 1949 show trial, who sheltered in the US embassy in Budapest from 1956 Religion 1892–1975
Stefan Wyszyński Stefan Wyszyński The archbishop who defended the Church's autonomy under communism Religion 1901–1981
Karol Józef Wojtyła Karol Józef Wojtyła A global pope from behind the Iron Curtain Religion 1920–2005
Ernest Kombo Ernest Kombo The Owando bishop who chaired the National Conference Religion 1941–2008
László Tőkés Tőkés László The Reformed pastor whose attempted eviction in Timișoara sparked the Romanian Revolution Political and party leadership 1952–