- Rowan Williams
Rowan Douglas Williams, PC, DPhil, DD, FBA, (born 14 June 1950) is the 104th and current Archbishop of Canterbury, metropolitan of the province of Canterbury, Primate of All England and head of the worldwide Anglican Communion. Williams is a distinguished theologian and poet. - Desmond Tutu
Desmond Tutu : This is an unbelievable achievement. As you might know, we have won the Rugby World Cup in 1995. It did wonders back then. Success in sports connected the people in a way that only a few politicians have been able to achieve in the past. We are looking forward to similar results in the context of the Football World Cup 2010. The Football World Cup makes South Africans feel more self-confident. - Archbishop Of York
The Archbishop of York is the metropolitan bishop of the Province of York, and is the junior of the two archbishops of the Church of England, after the Archbishop of Canterbury. Since 5 October 2005, the incumbent is the Most Reverend John Sentamu; he signs himself "Sentamu Ebor:" (In Uganda it is uncommon to have family names (such as Smith), children have given names, one often Christian and the other a traditional descriptive name, … - George Pell
George Cardinal Pell, AC, DD, STL, MEd, DPhil, FACE (born 8 June 1941) is an Australian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Cardinal Pell currently serves as Archbishop of Sydney and was elevated to the cardinalate in 2003. Since his appointment to Sydney, Pell has become one of the most well-known Christian leaders in Australia. - Charles J. Chaput
Charles Joseph Chaput, OFM Cap (born September 26, 1944) is the current archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Denver, Colorado. Archbishop Chaput was born in Concordia, Kansas. In July of 1968, at the age of twenty three, he was solemnly professed as a Brother in the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, a branch of the Franciscans. A little over two years later, in August of 1970 he was ordained a priest. In 1977, he became pastor of Holy Cross parish in Thornton, … - John Sentamu
John Tucker Mugabi Sentamu, PhD, (born 10 June 1949 in Kampala, Uganda) is the 97th Archbishop of York, Metropolitan of the province of York, and Primate of England. He is the second most senior cleric in the Church of England, after the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the first member of an ethnic minority to serve as an archbishop in the Church of England. - John Chrysostom
John Chrysostom (349- ca. 407,, "Ioannes Chrysostomos") was the archbishop of Constantinople. He is known for his eloquence in preaching and public speaking, his denunciation of abuse of authority by both ecclesiastical and political leaders, the "Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom", and his ascetic sensibilities. After his death he was given the Greek surname "chrysostomos", "golden mouthed", rendered in English as Chrysostom. - Peter Akinola
Peter Jasper Akinola DD (born 1944) is the current Anglican Primate of the Church of Nigeria. He is also Bishop of Abuja (Nigeria's capital) and Archbishop of Province III, which covers the northern and central parts of the country. In the Anglican Church, he is chairman of the Council of Anglican Provinces in Africa, and Chairman of the South-South Encounter of the Anglican Communion. - Archbishop Of Wales
The Province of Wales in the Anglican Communion was created in 1920, as the Church in Wales, independent from the Church of England (of which the four Welsh dioceses had previously been part). Unlike the Archbishops of Canterbury and York -- who are appointed by the Queen upon the advice of the Prime Minister -- the Archbishop of Wales is one of the six diocesan bishops of Wales, elected to hold this office in addition to his own diocese. - John Carroll
John Theodore Carroll, S.J., (January 8 1735 - December 3 1815) was the first bishop and archbishop in the United States - serving as the ordinary of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore. He is also known as the founder of Georgetown University, the oldest Catholic university in the United States, and the Georgetown Preparatory School, the oldest Catholic day and boarding school in the United States. John Carroll University is named in his honor. - Peter Jensen
The Most Reverend Peter Jensen (born 11 July 1943), is the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Australia, and Metropolitan of the Province of New South Wales. Jensen was born in Sydney and educated at Bellevue Hill Public School and The Scots College. After completing his Leaving Certificate, he studied law for two years and worked as an articled clerk before he moved into primary school teaching. - Thomas Becket
(St.) Thomas Becket was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to 1170. He is venerated as a saint and martyr by both the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Church. He engaged in a conflict with King Henry II over the rights and privileges of the Church and was assassinated by followers of the king in Canterbury Cathedral. He is also commonly known as Thomas à Becket, although this form may not have been contemporary. - Fulton J. Sheen
Fulton John Sheen (May 8, 1895-December 9, 1979) was an American archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church. He was Bishop of Rochester and American television's first preacher of note, hosting "Life Is Worth Living" in the early 1950s, first on the old DuMont Television Network and later on ABC, from 1951 to 1957. He later hosted the "Bishop Sheen Program" in syndication with a virtually identical format from 1961 to 1968; these later programs, … - Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke (January 12, 1729 - July 9, 1797) was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher, who served for many years in the British House of Commons as a member of the Whig party. He is mainly remembered for his support of the American colonies in the dispute with King George III and Great Britain that led to the American Revolution and for his strong opposition to the French Revolution. - Marcel Lefebvre
Marcel-François Lefebvre, better known as Marcel Lefebvre, was a French prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who took a leading part in opposing the changes within the Church associated with the Second Vatican Council. In 1970 he founded the Society of St. Pius X, for which on 30 June 1988 he consecrated four bishops. On the Holy See's declaration that he was thereby automatically excommunicated, and the subsequent questioning of that declaration, see, … - William Temple
Temple was born in Exeter, United Kingdom, son of the bishop of London who later became archbishop of Canterbury. Temple graduated from Oxford, then taught at Queen's College, Oxford, and was ordained. He married Frances Anson in 1916. He was rector of St. James, Piccadilly, London, and canon of Westminster. He became bishop of Manchester in 1921, archbishop of York in 1929, and archbishop of Canterbury in 1942. - Pius Ncube
Pius Alick Mvundla Ncube (born 1946) is the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, widely known as a human rights advocate and an outspoken critic of President Robert Mugabe. He heads a multi-denominational church coalition that seeks to improve the conditions of Zimbabweans. He has received a Human Rights Award from Human Rights First on October 23, 2003, … - Willa Cather
Wilella Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873 - April 24, 1947) is among the most eminent American authors. She is known for her depictions of U.S. life in novels such as "O Pioneers!", "My Ántonia", and "Death Comes for the Archbishop". - Michael Ramsey
Arthur Michael Ramsey, Baron Ramsey of Canterbury (14 Nov 1904 - 23 April 1988) was the one hundredth Archbishop of Canterbury. He was appointed on 31 May 1961, and was in office from June 1961 to 1974. Michael Ramsey was born in Cambridge, educated at Repton School (one of his tutors at Repton was his predecessor the 99th Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Francis Fisher) and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was President of the Cambridge Union Society. - Job
His Eminence, the Most Reverend Job (Osacky) of Chicago is the current archbishop of the Orthodox Church in America's Diocese of the Midwest. His territory includes Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Archbishop Job was born Richard John Osacky in Chicago on March 18, 1946. Saints Peter and Paul Church, at 53rd Street and Western Avenue, is his home parish. - William Levada
"His Eminence" William Joseph Cardinal Levada S.T.D. (born June 15, 1936) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in the Roman Curia, previously serving as Archbishop of Portland from 1986 to 1995 and Archbishop of San Francisco from 1995 to 2005. Levada was elevated to the cardinalate in 2006. - Fouad Twal
Fouad Twal (born October 23, 1940 at Madaba) is a Roman Catholic bishop. He was ordained to the priesthood on June 29, 1966, and appointed the prelate of the territorial prelature of Tunis by Pope John Paul II on May 30, 1992. He was concrecrated to the episcopate on July 22 later that year. In 1995, the territorial prelature was elevated to become the Diocese of Tunis, and Twal was made an archbishop "ad personam". - Michel Sabbah
Michel Sabbah is the Latin Patriarch and Archbishop of Jerusalem. The Hebrew Catholics and Arab Catholics of Israel, the West Bank and Gaza are under his care. Sabbah began his priestly studies at the Latin Patriarchal Seminary of Beit Jala in October 1949 and was ordained a priest for the Latin patriarchate of Jerusalem in June 1955. Father Michel Sabbah was a parish priest for a few years before being sent to the University of St. - John Walsh
John Walsh (24 May 1830 - 30 July 1898) was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Toronto, Canada from 1888 to 1898. - John Williams
John Williams (bardic name: Ab Ithel) (1811-1862) was an antiquary and Anglican priest. Born in Llangynhafal, Denbighshire Wales in 1811, he graduated from Jesus College, Oxford, in 1835 to become the Anglican curate of Llanfor, Merionethshire, where he married Elizabeth Lloyd Williams. In 1843 he became perpetual curate of Nerquis, Flintshire, and rector of Llanymawddwy, Merionethshire, in 1849. - John Williams
John Williams (1582-1650) was a British clergyman and political advisor to King James I. He served as Bishop of Lincoln 1621-1641, Keeper of the Great Seal also known as Lord Keeper or Lord Chancellor 1621-1625, and Archbishop of York 1641-1650. He was the last archbishop to serve as lord chancellor. - Pietro Sambi
"Most Reverend" Pietro Sambi is an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, currently serving as the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States. deathstyle=not applicableSambi was born in Sogliano al Rubicone, Forlì. He was ordained to the priesthood on March 14, 1964, and began work in the diplomatic service of the Secretariat of State in 1969, serving at the nunciatures in Cameroon, Jerusalem, Cuba, Algeria, Nicaragua, Belgium, and India. - Scipione Cardinal Rebiba
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Chieti on March 16, 1541, created a Cardinal on December 20, 1555, appointed Archbishop of Pisa in 1566, Bishop of Albano in 1573 and Bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto in 1574. Cardinal Rebiba is a notable figure in the history of the apostolic succession in the Roman Catholic Church. - Augustine Of Canterbury
Augustine of Canterbury (birth unknown, died May 26, c. 604) was the first Archbishop of Canterbury, sent to Ethelbert of Kent by Pope Gregory the Great in 596. The Kingdom of Kent, was targeted because its king, Ethelbert, had married a Christian Frankish princess named Bertha. He was accompanied by Laurence of Canterbury, the second archbishop, and a group of forty other monks. They achieved some initial success shortly after their arrival in 597, … - James Ussher
James Ussher (sometimes spelled Usher was Anglican Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland between 1625–1656. He was a prolific scholar, who most famously published a chronology that purported to time and date Creation to the night preceding October 23, 4004 BC. - Donald Wuerl
Donald William Wuerl (born November 12, 1940) is the sixth Roman Catholic Archbishop of Washington, DC. From 1988 to 2006, he served as the 11th Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. On May 16, 2006, Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation of Theodore McCarrick as Archbishop of Washington on account of age. Wuerl was installed on June 22 2006. - Robin Eames
Robin Henry Alexander Eames, Baron Eames, OM, PhD, DD, (born 27 April 1937) was the Anglican Primate of All Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh from 1986 to 2006. - Drexel Gomez
Archbishop Drexel Gomez (b. 1937) is an Anglican Archbishop. A graduate of St Chad's College, Durham University in 1959, he was consecrated as Bishop of Barbados. In 1997 he was elected Bishop of the Diocese of the Bahamas & the Turks & Caicos Islands. He was elected Archbishop and Primate of the Province of the West Indies in 1998. His full title is His Grace, The Most Rev'd Drexel Wellington Gomez, Lord Archbishop, … - Francis Cardinal George
"His Eminence" Francis Eugene Cardinal George, OMI, Ph.D, S.T.D. (born January 16, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as the Archbishop of Chicago and was elevated to Cardinal by Pope John Paul II. The Cardinal is the vice-president of the conference of American bishops, and is in charge of the second largest U.S. diocese—in terms of Catholic population—after Los Angeles. - Timothy Dolan
Timothy Michael Dolan (born February 6, 1950 in St. Louis, Missouri) is the tenth Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. - Archbishop Of Glasgow
The Bishop of Glasgow, after 1492 Archbishop of Glasgow, was the ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of Glasgow and then, as Archbishop of Glasgow, the Archdiocese of Glasgow. Today he is the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Glasgow. The bishopric as a functional Glasgow institution originates in the period of the reign of David, Prince of the Cumbrians, but the earliest attested bishops come from the 11th century, … - Isidore Of Seville
Saint Isidore of Seville (Spanish: or), Latin: (c. 560 - April 4, 636) was Archbishop of Seville for more than three decades and has the reputation of being one of the great scholars of the early Middle Ages. All the later medieval history-writing of Hispania were based on his histories. At a time of disintegration of classical culture, and aristocratic violence and illiteracy, he was involved in the conversion of the royal Visigothic Arians to Catholicism, … - Emmanuel Milingo
Emmanuel Milingo (born June 13, 1930) was a Zambian Roman Catholic archbishop. In 1969, when Milingo was only 39, Pope Paul VI consecrated him as the Bishop of the Archdiocese of Lusaka. In 1983 he was asked to step down from his position as Archbishop of Lusaka for his performance of exorcisms and faith healing practices unapproved by Church authorities. In 2001, when Milingo was 71, he received a marriage blessing from Sun Myung Moon, the leader of the Unification Church, … - Gregory Palamas
Gregory Palamas was a monk of Mount Athos in Greece and later Archbishop of Thessalonica known as a preeminent theologian of Hesychasm. He is venerated as a Saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church, as well as the Roman Catholic and Eastern Catholic Churches. Some of his writings are collected in the Philokalia. The second Sunday of the Great Lent is called the Sunday of Gregory Palamas in those Churches that commemorate him. - John J. Myers
Archbishop John Joseph Myers STL, JCD (b. July 26, 1941 in Earlville, Illinois, near Ottawa) is the Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark in Newark, New Jersey.
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