List of religious leaders in 1949

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1948 religious leaders - Events of 1949 - 1950 religious leaders - Religious leaders by year

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Contents 1 Catholic 1.1 Catholic not in communion with Rome 2 Eastern orthodoxy 3 Oriental orthodoxy 4 Assyrian Christianity 5 Protestant and offshoots 6 Judaism 7 Islam and its offshoots 7.1 Ismaili 7.2 Ahmadiyya 8 New religious movements 9 Buddhism

[edit] Catholic

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

[edit] Catholic not in communion with Rome

• Old Catholic Church of the Mariavites - Roman Maria Jakub Próchniewski (1945-1953)

[edit] Eastern orthodoxy

• Russian Orthodox Church - Patriarch Alexius I(1945–1970)

[edit] Oriental orthodoxy

• Indian Orthodox Church - Baselious Geevarghese II (1929-1964)

[edit] Assyrian Christianity

• Assyrian Church of the East-Assyrian Patriarch in Qochanis Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII (1920-1975)

[edit] Protestant and offshoots

• 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)
• The Salvation Army - General Albert Orsborn from 1946 to June 30, 1954
• Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - President George Albert Smith from May 21, 1945 – April 4, 1951
• Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints(Now called Community of Christ) -Israel Alexander Smith - (1946-1958)

[edit] Judaism

• Chief rabbi of the State of Israel
  • Ashkenazi-Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog(1948-1959)
• Chief Rabbi of the British Empire: Sir Israel Brodie(1948-1965)

[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] New religious movements

• Nation of Islam - Elijah Muhammad(1934-1975)
• Kimbanguism - Simon Kimbangu(1921-1951)
• Radio Church of God(now called Worldwide Church of God) - Herbert W. Armstrong

[edit] Buddhism

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