- List of religious leaders in 1946
1945 religious leaders - Events of 1946 - 1947 religious leaders -
Religious leaders by year -----See also:
*List of state leaders in 1946
*List of colonial governors in 1946 Christianity
Catholic
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Roman Catholic Church -Pope Pius XII (1939 -1958 )Catholic not in communion with Rome
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Polish National Catholic Church - First Prime Bishop Franciszek Hodur: Founder presided as Prime Bishop from (1924 -1946 )
*Old Catholic Church of the Mariavites - Roman Maria Jakub Próchniewski (1945 -1953 )
*Liberal Catholic Church, Province of the United States of America - John T. Eklund(1945 -1948 )
*Catholic Apostolic Church of Brazil -Carlos Duarte Costa (1945 -1961 or later)Eastern Orthodoxy
*Patriarch of Constantinople
**Patriarch Benjamin I (1936 -1946 )
**Patriarch Maximus V (1946 -1948 )
*Greek Patriarch of Alexandria-Christopher II (1939 –1966 )
*Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch - Alexander III (Tahan) (1928 -1958 )
*Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Timotheus I (1935 –1955 )
*Russian Orthodox Church -Patriarch Alexius I (1945 –1970 )
*Church of Greece - Archbishop of Athens Damaskenus (1941 -1949 )
*Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Kalistrate Tsintsadze (1932 -1952 )
*Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch of Serbia Gavrilo V Dozic-Medenica (Gabriel V) (1938 -1950 )Oriental orthodoxy
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Coptic Christianity - Pope of Alexandria Joseph II (1946 –1956 )
**Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church - Abuna Qerellos IV (1945 -1950 ) (restored, also was part of the Coptic Church until 1959)
*Indian Orthodox Church -Baselious Geevarghese II (1929 -1964 )
*Syriac Orthodox Church - Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of AntiochIgnatius Afram I Barsoum (1933 -1957 )
*Armenian Apostolic Church - Catholicos of Armenia George VI (1945-1954)Assyrians
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Assyrian Church of the East - Patriarch of BabylonMar Eshai Shimun XXIII (1920 -1975 )Protestant and offshoots
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Church of England -Archbishop of Canterbury Geoffrey Fisher (1945 -1961 )
*Church of Sweden -Archbishop of Uppsala -Erling Eidem (1931–1950)
*Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod - President John W. Behnken (1935 -1962 )
*Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod - President John Brenner (1933 – 1953)
*Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland -Archbishop of Turku Aleksi Lehtonen (1945 -1951 )
*New Apostolic Church -Chief Apostle Johann Gottfried Bischoff (1930 -1960 )
*The Salvation Army -
**GeneralGeorge Carpenter retiredJune 26 ,1946 .
**GeneralAlbert Orsborn from June 27 1946 toJune 30 ,1954
*Seventh-day Adventist Church - President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists J. Lamar McElhany (1936 - 1950)Other Christian
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) -George Albert Smith , President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints fromMay 21 ,1945 –April 4 ,1951
*Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints(Now calledCommunity of Christ ) -
**Frederick Madison Smith -May 15 ,1914 – April,1946
**Israel Alexander Smith -April 6 ,1946 -October 6 ,1958 Judaism
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Chief rabbi ofBritish Mandate of Palestine
**Ashkenazi -Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog (1936 -1948 )
*Chief rabbi of the British Empire-Joseph H. Hertz (1913 to his death inJanuary 14 ,1946 )Islam and its offshoots
Ismaili
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Nizari -Aga Khan III (1885 -1957 )
*Dawoodi Bohras -Syedna Taher Saifuddin (1915 -1965 )Ahmadiyya
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Ahmadiyya Muslim Community -Khalifatul Masih II Hazrat Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmood Ahmad (1914 -1965 )
*Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement -Maulana Muhammad Ali (Amir1914 -1951 )New Religious Movements
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Iglesia ni Cristo - Executive ministerFelix Manalo (1914 -1953 )
*Kimbanguism -Simon Kimbangu (1921 -1951 )
*Mita Congregation -Juanita García Peraza (1940 -1970 )
*Nation of Islam -Elijah Muhammad (1934 -1975 )
*Oomoto -Onisaburo Deguchi
*Radio Church of God (now calledWorldwide Church of God ) -Herbert W. Armstrong (incorporated as the Radio Church of God onMarch 3 ,1946 )
*Ramakrishna Mission - PresidentVirajananda (1939–1951)Buddhism
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Tibetan Buddhism - Fourteenth Dalai LamaTenzin Gyatso (Officially1935 -present, but not discovered until1937 . See explanation atDalai Lama )
*Supreme Patriarch of Thailand Somdet Phra Luang Vajirayanavangsa (1945 -1958 )
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