List of Christian pastors in politics

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[edit] Background

There are existing sub-sections on religious denominations to deal with Christian lay people in politics, eg. List of LDS politicians. This list is for politicians who also do Christian pastoral work, both ordained clergy and evangelists or theologians. It is therefore not appropriate to add Christian lay people to the list, although some noted theologians in the laity are included as relational.

[edit] List

[edit] Anglican

John Bani - President and head of state of Vanuatu from 25 March 1999, until 24 March 2004. Anglican priest.
Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley - UK politician - only member of the House of Lords to sit as a member of the Green Party. Anglican priest.
Walter Lini - Founding Prime Minister of Vanuatu (succeeded by Bani). Anglican priest.

[edit] Baptist

Chuck Baldwin - United States Constitution Party activist and Baptist pastor.
Ross Clifford - Australian politician: New South Wales Legislative Council and Australian Senate candidate; and Baptist theologian.
Jerry Falwell -- Republican presidential kingmaker
Walter E. Fauntroy - Former member of United States Congress and Baptist pastor.
Ernie Fletcher - Governor of Kentucky from 2003-2007
William H. Gray - former Congressman and minister.
Benjamin Hooks - American civil rights leader and Baptist minister.
Mike Huckabee - former governor of Arkansas and Baptist minister.
Tim Hutchinson - former Senator from Arkansas and former Baptist pastor.
Jesse Jackson - civil rights activist and Baptist minister.
Martin Luther King - civil rights activist and Baptist minister.
Ron Lewis - Retiring Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky since 1994 and Baptist minister.
Pat Robertson - Republican supporter, former United States presidential nomination candidate, and former Baptist pastor.

[edit] Catholicism

Jean-Bertrand Aristide - former President of Haiti, former Catholic priest.
Ernesto Cardenal - former Minster for Culture for Nicaragua and Catholic priest
James Renshaw Cox - US Presidency candidate and Catholic priest.
Andrej Hlinka - Slovak public activist and Catholic priest.
Ludwig Kaas - prominent German politician during Weimar Republic and Catholic priest.
Hugo Kołłątaj - Polish social and political activist, political thinker, historian, philosopher and Catholic priest.
Gabriel Richard - French Roman Catholic priest who became a delegate from Michigan Territory to the U.S. House of Representatives.
Stanisław Staszic - Polish priest, philosopher, statesman, geologist, scholar, poet and writer, a leader of the Polish Enlightenment, famous for works related to the "Great" or "Four-Year Sejm" (1788-1792) and its Constitution of May 3, 1791.
Luigi Sturzo - one of the founders of the Italian People's Party and Catholic priest.
Jozef Tiso - fascist Slovak politician of the SPP, Roman Catholic priest who became a deputy of the Czechoslovak parliament, a member of the Czechoslovak government, and finally the President of Independent Slovak Republic from 1939-1945, allied with Nazi Germany.
Beda Weber - German Benedictine professor, author, and member of the Frankfurt Parliament.

[edit] Dutch Reformed Church

Thomas François Burgers - President of the South African Republic 1871-77 and pastor.
Abraham Kuyper - Dutch politician, journalist, statesman and theologian. He founded the Anti-Revolutionary Party and was prime minister of the Netherlands between 1901 and 1905. Dutch Reformed Church minister.
Daniel François Malan - former Prime Minister of South Africa and minister.

[edit] Eastern Orthodox Churches

Miron Cristea - first Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church and Prime Minister of Romania.
Makarios III - archbishop and primate of the autocephalous Cypriot Orthodox Church (1950-1977) and first President of the Republic of Cyprus (1960-1977).
Fan S. Noli - Albanian Orthodox bishop and politician, who served briefly as prime minister and regent of Albania in 1924.
Feofan Prokopovich - archbishop and statesman in the Russian Empire, elaborated and implemented Peter the Great's reform of the Russian Orthodox Church.

[edit] Episcopalian

Benjamin W. Arnett - Ohio State Legislature politician and African Methodist Episcopal Church pastor.
John Danforth - former United States Ambassador to the United Nations and former Republican United States Senator from Missouri, ordained Episcopal priest.

[edit] Evangelist

Charles Colson - chief counsel for President of the United States Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973 and was one of the Watergate Seven. Maintains a variety of media channels which discuss contemporary issues from an Evangelical Christian worldview; Colson's views are typically consistent with a politically conservative interpretation of evangelical Christianity.

[edit] Evangelical Lutheran

Dean Johnson - former majority leader of the Minnesota Senate and minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Lauri Ingman - Archbishop of Turku (1930-1934), Prime Minister of Finland (1918-1919, 1924-1925)

[edit] Lutheran

Kjell Magne Bondevik - Norwegian Lutheran minister and politician; Prime Minister of Norway from 1997 to 2000, and from 2001 to 2005.
Walter H. Moeller - American politician of the Democratic party, entered a Lutheran seminary in 1935 and served as a pastor in the 1940s and after his retirement from politics.