List of religious leaders in 1939

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1938 religious leaders - Events of 1939 - 1940 religious leaders - Religious leaders by year

Contents 1 Catholic 1.1 Catholic not in communion with Rome 2 Eastern Orthodoxy 3 Oriental orthodoxy 4 Protestant and relational 5 Judaism 6 Islam and its offshoots 6.1 Ismaili 6.2 Ahmadiyya 7 Buddhism

[edit] Catholic

• Roman Catholic Church
  • Pope Pius XI (1922-February 1939)
  • Pope Pius XII (1939-1958)

[edit] Catholic not in communion with Rome

• Polish National Catholic Church - First Prime Bishop Franciszek Hodur: Founder presided as Prime Bishop from (1924-1946)

[edit] Eastern Orthodoxy

• Patriarch of Constantinople Benjamin I (1936-1946)
• Russian Orthodox Church-Patriarch Sergius I acted in Locum tenens as Patriarch from 1925-1943
• Church of Greece-Archbishop of Athens Chrysanthus(1938-1941)

[edit] Oriental orthodoxy

• Coptic Christianity Pope John XIX (1929–1942)
• Assyrian Church of the East-Assyrian Patriarch in Qochanis Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII (1920-1975)

[edit] Protestant and relational

• Church of England - Archbishop of Canterbury Cosmo Lang (1928-1942)
• Church of Sweden - Archbishop of Uppsala - Erling Eidem(1931–1950)
• Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod - President John W. Behnken (1935 - 1962)
• The Salvation Army - General Evangeline Booth (1934-1939)
  • General George Carpenter (After October 1939 to 1946)
• Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Heber J. Grant seventh President of the LDS Church (1918-1945)
• Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Now called Community of Christ) - Frederick Madison Smith (1914–1946)
• New Apostolic Church - Johann Gottfried Bischoff, Chief Apostle (1930-1960)

[edit] Judaism

• Chief rabbi of British Mandate of Palestine
  • Ashkenazi-Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog(1936-1948)
• Chief rabbi of the British Empire- Joseph H. Hertz(1913 to his death in January 14, 1946)

[edit] Islam and its offshoots

[edit] Ismaili

• Nizari - Aga Khan III (1885-1957)
• Dawoodi Bohras - Syedna Taher Saifuddin (1915-1965)

[edit] Ahmadiyya

• Ahmadiyya Muslim Community-Khalifatul Masih II Hazrat Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmood Ahmad (1914-1965)
• Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement-Maulana Muhammad Ali(Amir 1914-1951)

[edit] Buddhism

• Tibetan Buddhism - Fourteenth Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso (Officially 1935-present, but not discovered until 1937. See explanation at Dalai Lama)