- R. C. Sproul
Robert Charles Sproul, (born 1939 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American Calvinist theologian and pastor. He is the founder and chairman of Ligonier Ministries (named after the Ligonier Valley just outside of Pittsburgh, where the ministry started as a study center for college and seminary students) and can be heard daily on the "Renewing Your Mind" radio broadcast in the United States and throughout 60 countries. - Miroslav Volf
Miroslav Volf (Born in Osijek, Croatia - 1956), is an influential Christian theologian and currently the Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale University Divinity School and Director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture. He has been a member in both the Presbyterian Church (USA) and the Evangelical Church in Croatia. He is widely known for his works on systematic theology, ethics, conflict resolution, and peace-making. - Edmund Clowney
Edmund Prosper Clowney (July 30, 1917 - March 20, 2005) was a theologian, educator, and pastor. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he earned a Bachelor of Arts from Wheaton College in 1939, a Bachelor of Theology from Westminster Theological Seminary in 1942, a Master of Sacred Theology from Yale Divinity School in 1944, and a Doctor of Divinity from Wheaton College in 1966. Clowney was ordained in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, … - Louis Berkhof
Louis Berkhof (1873 - 1957) was a Reformed systematic theologian whose written works have been influential in seminaries and Bible colleges in the United States and Canada and with individual Christians in general throughout the 20th century. He was born in the Netherlands and moved to the United States when still a child. He taught for almost four decades at Calvin Theological Seminary. His main works are his "Systematic Theology" (1932, … - George Eldon Ladd
George Eldon Ladd (1911-1982) was a Baptist minister and professor of New Testament exegesis and theology at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. Ladd was ordained in 1933 and pastored in New England from 1936 to 1945. He served as an instructor at Gordon College of Theology and Missions (now Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary), Wenham, Massachusetts from 1942-45. He was an associate professor of New Testament and Greek from 1946-50, … - John Ireland
John Ireland (September 11, 1838 - September 25, 1918) was the third bishop and first archbishop of St. Paul, Minnesota (1888-1918). - Peter Chanel
Pierre Chanel (1803-1841), Catholic priest, missionary and martyr. He was declared a saint and the first martyr of Oceania (the South Pacific). Pierre Louis Marie Chanel was born on July 12 1803 in Cuet, near Belley, France. His piety and intelligence attracted the attention of the local priest, and he was put into Church-sponsored education. He followed this with seminary training and was ordained priest in 1827. Among his first assignments was a run-down parish, … - Gabriel Richard
Father Gabriel Richard was a French Roman Catholic priest who became a Delegate from Michigan Territory to the U.S. House of Representatives. He was born in La Ville de Saintes, France and entered the seminary in Angers in 1784 and was ordained on October 15, 1790. In 1792, he emigrated to Baltimore, Maryland. He taught mathematics at St. Mary's College, in Maryland, until being assigned by Bishop Carroll to do missionary work to the Indians in the Northwest Territory. - John Berchmans
Saint John Berchmans (March 13, 1599 - August 13, 1621) was a Jesuit seminarian and is a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. He is the patron saint of altar servers. St. John's Jesuit High School and Academy, in Toledo, Ohio, St. John Berchmans parish and school, in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood, and the Cathedral of St. John Berchmans in Shreveport, Louisiana are named for him. - Henry Moore
Henry Moore (1751-1844) was an English Wesleyan minister and biographer, born in a suburb of Dublin and apprenticed to a wood carver. Impressed by the preaching of John Wesley, he frequented the Methodist meetings and joined a class in Dublin in 1777. He served from 1784 to 1786 as assistant traveling companion and amanuensis to John Wesley, and again from 1788 to 1790. Wesley made him one of his literary executors and appointed him to be, after his death, … - Jonathan Morris
Fr. Jonathan Morris (born August 22, 1972 in Cleveland, Ohio), is an American Roman Catholic priest and vice-rector of the Legionaries of Christ seminary in Rome, Italy. He is currently a news contributor and analyst for the Fox News Channel. - James Porter
James Porter (January 2, 1935 - February 11, 2005) was a Roman Catholic priest who molested at least 125 children of both sexes over a period of 30 years, starting in the 1960s. - Tex Sample
Tex Sample is a sociologist of religion, lecturer, author, and emeritus Professor of Church and Society at the St. Paul School of Theology, a Methodist seminary in Kansas City, MO where he taught from 1967-1999. Sample was born in Brookhaven, MS, received a BA from Millsaps College, MDiv. and PhD from Boston University, and DD from Coe College. He currently resides in Goodyear, AZ. Tex is his real name, not a nickname. - Oscar Cullmann
Oscar Cullmann (25 February, 1902, Strasbourg - 16 January, 1999, Chamonix) was a Christian theologian in the Lutheran tradition. He is best known for his work in the ecumenical movement, being in part responsible for the establishment of dialogue between the Lutheran and Roman Catholic traditions. - Georg Ratzinger
"Reverend Monsignor" Georg Ratzinger (born January 15, 1924) is a German Catholic priest and musician, well known as the elder brother of Pope Benedict XVI. Ratzinger was born in Bavaria to Joseph Ratzinger, Sr., a police officer. Early in his life he showed musical talent, playing the church organ already at the age of 11. In 1935 he entered the minor seminary in Traunstein and had professional musical instruction there. - Nelson Glueck
Nelson Glueck (1900-1971) was an American rabbi, academic and archaeologist. Dr. Glueck served as president of Hebrew Union College from 1947 until his death, and his pioneering work in the field of "biblical archeology" resulted in the discovery of 1,500 ancient sites. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1900 to German Jewish parents, Glueck developed a passion for religion early in life, and was ordained as a Reform Jewish rabbi in 1923. - Bill Williams
Bill Williams (1960 - May 1998) was a game designer and programmer, the author of the acclaimed Atari games "Salmon Run", "Necromancer", and "Alley Cat", the Amiga games "Mind Walker", "Sinbad and the Throne of the Falcon", "Pioneer Plague", and "Knights of the Crystallion", "Monopoly" for the Nintendo Entertainment System, and "Bart's Nightmare" for Super NES. - George Preca
Saint George Preca (in Maltese: San Ġorġ Preca was a Maltese priest who founded the Society of Christian Doctrine, a society of lay catechists. In Malta, he is affectionately known as "Dun Ġorġ" and is popularly referred to as the "Second Apostle of Malta," after Saint Paul of Tarsus. He was canonized on 3 June 2007. - Angelo Scola
"His Eminence" Angelo Cardinal Scola, Ph.D, Th.D (born November 7, 1941) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church. He currently serves as Patriarch of Venice, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 2003. Scola is a noted academic, the author of numerous theological and pedagogical works on topics such as bio-medical ethics, theological anthropology, human sexuality and marriage and the family, which have been translated into several different languages. - Arnold Janssen
Saint Arnold Janssen was a Roman Catholic priest best known for founding the mission Society of the Divine Word, the members of which are known as "Divine Word Missionaries", and two congregations for women. Janssen was born in Goch, Germany, near the Dutch border. He was ordained a priest in 1861. Janssen purchased land in Steyl (Netherlands) to begin his seminary, dedicated in 1875 as "St. Michael the Archangel Mission House". - Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz
Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz is the Roman Catholic archbishop of Moscow, Russia. He is a native of Odelsk near Grodno, Belarus (then USSR), and was originally named Faddei (Tadeusz) Ignatievich Kondrusiewicz (ru: Фаддей (Тадеуш) Игнатьевич Кондрусевич). He was born into the pious family of Ignati Kondrusiewicz (1906–1985) and his wife Anna (maiden name Anna Szusta; 1911–1999), being the older of two children (his sister was Maria Buro, … - Maria Monk
Maria Monk was a Canadian woman who claimed to have been a nun who had been sexually exploited in her convent. She, or ghost writers who used her as their puppet, wrote a sensational book about these allegations. Maria Monk's book "Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, or, The Hidden Secrets of a Nun's Life in a Convent Exposed" was published in January 1836. - Adam Stefan Sapieha
"His Eminence" Prince Adam Stefan Stanisław Bonfatiusz Józef Cardinal Sapieha (14 May 1867 – 23 July 1951) was a Polish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church and, what some might call, mentor of Pope John Paul II. Sapieha was born in 1867 in the castle of Krasiczyn to a family of nobles. He was the youngest of the seven children of Prince Adam Stanisław Sapieha-Kodenski and Princess Jadwiga Klementyna Sanguszko-Lubartowicza. - John Battle
John Dominic Battle ; (born April 26, 1951) British politician, and is the Labour Party Member of Parliament for Leeds West. John Battle was born in Bradford and educated at St. Paulinus' School, Dewsbury; the University of Leeds and St. Joseph's College, Upholland, Lancashire (a former seminary for the training of priests in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Liverpool). John Battle trained for the priesthood ; for three years from 1969, … - Brian Stiller
Brian Stiller is president of Tyndale University College and Seminary, in Toronto, Canada. Stiller was raised in a Pentecostal minister’s home on the prairies. Educated at the University of Toronto (BA in History), Wycliffe College (M. Rel), and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (Doctor of Ministry), he has received honorary doctorates from Briercrest College and Trinity Western University. During the 1960s, Stiller set out to work with youth, … - Dion Forster
Dion Angus Forster (born January 14, 1972) is an ordained Minister of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa. He is the Dean of the Seminary of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, John Wesley College, in Kilnerton, Pretoria. He holds a Doctorate in Theology from the University of South Africa (UNISA). He also holds the degrees of Master of Theology, and Bachelor of Theology with Honours (Honours degree), from Rhodes University. - Michel de Certeau
Michel de Certeau was a French Jesuit and scholar whose work combined psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the social sciences. Michel de Certeau was born in 1925 in Chambéry, France. Certeau's education was eclectic. After obtaining degrees in classics and philosophy at the universities of Grenoble, Lyon, and Paris, he undertook religious training at a seminary in Lyon, where he entered the Jesuit order (Society of Jesus) in 1950 and was ordained in 1956. - James Lloyd Breck
James Lloyd Breck was a priest, educator and missionary of the Episcopal Church of the United States of America. Breck was born June 27, 1818 near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended high school at the Flushing Institute, founded by William Augustus Muhlenberg, who inspired him to resolve at the age of sixteen to devote himself to missionary activity. In 1844, by then a priest, he went to the frontier of Wisconsin with two classmates, … - Robert Galea
Robert Galea is a Christian singer and songwriter from the island of Malta. In 2003 Robert entered a seminary where he is currently preparing himself for the Catholic priesthood. Robert's passion is to draw others to the heart of God. He believes, along with a number of other important voices in the Christian tradition stretching even from Apostolic times, that music is an important instrument in helping others understand the need for intimacy with God. - Paul Kooistra
Paul Kooistra is a Presbyterian minister, former president of Covenant Theological Seminary, official seminary of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), former moderator of the General Assembly of the PCA, and current coordinator of Mission to the World, the missions agency of the PCA. - Mike Palecek
Mike Palecek was, with Tony Christini and Andre Vltchek, the founder of Mainstay Press, a publisher dedicated to social change. Mike Palecek lives with his family in northwest Iowa. He is a former federal prisoner for peace, former seminarian and former small-town newspaper reporter. In the 2000 election, he was the Iowa Democratic Party nominee to represent the Fifth District in the U. S. Congress. Mike has written several novels which take place in Iowa or Minnesota. - James Haley
The Reverend Fr. James Haley is a Roman Catholic priest who asserts "that homosexual priests, not solely pedophiles, are at the root of the sexual-abuse crisis. The Catholic priesthood is demoralized, he says, by groups of homosexual clerics who control who gets admitted to seminary, which men get nominated for bishop and which priests get the plum parishes." - Franciszek Macharski
"His Eminence" Franciszek Cardinal Macharski is a Polish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the Archbishop of Kraków from 1978, succeeding Karol Cardinal Wojtyła to the chair of St. Stanisław, until his resignation in 2005. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1979. - André Vingt-Trois
"The Most Reverend" André Armand Vingt-Trois is a French prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Tours from April 21, 1999 until February 11, 2005, when he was appointed Archbishop of Paris. He was born in Paris to Armand and Paulette (née Vuillamy) Vingt-Trois. After entering the Seminary of Saint-Sulpice at Issy-les-Moulineaux in 1962, Vingt-Trois was ordained a priest on June 28, 1969 by François Cardinal Marty. - Charles Journet
Charles Cardinal Journet (January 26, 1891-April 15, 1975) was a Swiss Catholic theologian and cardinal. Born in Geneva, Charles Journet studied at the seminary in Fribourg before being ordained to the priesthood on July 15, 1917. He then did pastoral work in the Diocese of Fribourg until 1924, and there taught at the seminary from 1924 to 1965. Journet was raised to the rank of Domestic Prelate of His Holiness on August 13, 1946. - John McMullen
John McMullen was the first bishop of the Diocese of Davenport in the state of Iowa. Bishop McMullen was born on January 8, 1832 in Ballynahinch, Ireland. He was ordained to the priesthood June 20, 1858 for the Archdiocese of Chicago. He served the Archdiocese as a priest for 25 years before he was consecrated as a bishop by Archbishop Patrick Feehan for the newly created Diocese of Davenport in 1881. - Milton R. Hunter
Milton Reed Hunter was an American author, educator, and religious leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He served as a member of the church's First Council of the Seventy from 1945 until his death in 1975. Of Scottish descent, Hunter was born on October 25, 1902, in Holden, Utah, the son of John Edward and Margaret Teeples Hunter. He atttended Brigham Young University, receiving a bachelor's degree in 1929 and a master’s degree in 1931. - Donald Sanborn
Bishop Donald J. Sanborn is a sedeprivationist Traditionalist Catholic bishop who is Rector of Most Holy Trinity Seminary in Brooksville, Florida. Sanborn was born in New York City. In 1967 he entered the seminary college for the Diocese of Brooklyn, where he majored in classical languages and graduated "cum laude" in 1971. That same year, unhappy with the church reforms being introduced in light of the Second Vatican Council, … - Carl P. Daw Jr.
The Reverend Carl P. Daw, Jr. M.A., M.Div., Ph.D. (born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1944) is an American Episcopal priest and Executive Director of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada. He was appointed to the position in 1996. Son of a Baptist pastor, he moved frequently with his father throughout Tennessee during his youth. He obtained his B.A. at Rice University, his M.A. and Ph. - Thomas R. Kelly
Thomas Raymond Kelly (1893-January 17 1941) was an American Quaker missionary and educator. He taught and wrote on the subject of mysticism. His books are widely read, especially by people interested in spirituality. Kelly was born in 1893 in Ohio to a Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) family. The Quakers in Ohio had been influenced by the 19th Century revivalists and were hardly distinguishable from other low-church Protestant groups.
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