List of religious leaders in 1938
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1937 religious leaders - Events of 1938 - 1939 religious leaders - Religious leaders by year
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[edit] Christianity
[edit] Catholic
- Roman Catholic Church-Pope Pius XI (1922-February 1939)
[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] Oriental orthodoxy
- Coptic Christianity-Pope Youanes XIX of Alexandria(1929–1942)
- 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 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)
- New Apostolic Church - Johann Gottfried Bischoff, Chief Apostle (1930-1960)
[edit] Other Christian
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) - Heber J. Grant, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1918 - 1945)
- Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (now called Community of Christ) - Frederick Madison Smith (1914–1946)
[edit] Judaism
- Chief rabbi of British Mandate of Palestine
- Chief rabbi of the British Empire- Joseph H. Hertz(1913 to his death in January 14, 1946)
[edit] Islam and its offshoots
[edit] Ismaili
[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)
