List of Christian pastors in politics
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.
List
- Jean-Bertrand Aristide – former President of Haiti, former Catholic priest.
- Ernesto Cardenal – former Minister for Culture for Nicaragua and Catholic priest
- James Renshaw Cox – US Presidency candidate and Catholic priest.
- Robert Drinan – Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, lawyer, human rights activist, and Democratic U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.
- 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 3 May 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.
- 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.
- Eduardo Villanueva – (born 6 October 1946), known as Bro. Eddie, is a religious and political leader in the Philippines and a presidential candidate in the 2010 Philippine election as standard bearer of the Bagong Pilipinas Party. Prior to joining the politics, he is best known as the founder and leader of the Jesus is Lord Church but officially declared his leave of absence as its Spiritual Director during the launching of Bagong Pilipinas, Bagong Pilipino Movement on 28 March 2009 “so that [he] may concentrate on the transformation of our beloved nation".
- Bill Blaikie – current Deputy Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons. He has been a Member of Parliament (MP) since 1979, representing the Winnipeg riding of Elmwood—Transcona and its antecedents as a member of the New Democratic Party. Minister of United Church of Canada.
- Lorne Calvert – former premier of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan and current leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition, as leader of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party. Ordained minister of United Church of Canada.
- Brian Howe – Australian politician, was Deputy Prime Minister in the Labor government of Paul Keating, and minister of Uniting Church in Australia.
- Stanley Knowles – Canadian parlementarian. United Church minister.
- Doug Lauchlan – Canadian politician, minister and educator, ordained minister in the United Church of Canada.
- Doug Martindale – politician in Manitoba, Canada. He has been a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba since 1990, serving as a member of the New Democratic Party. Ordained United Church minister.
- Davis McCaughey – key architect in the formation of the Uniting Church in Australia and Governor of Victoria from 1986–1992.
- David MacDonald – United Church of Canada minister and a former Canadian politician and author.
- Lloyd Stinson – politician in Manitoba, Canada, and the leader of that province's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) from 1953 to 1959, and ordained United Church minister.
- Andrew Young – American civil rights activist, former mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, and United States' first African-American ambassador to the United Nations, United Church of Christ pastor.
- Keith Seaman (Australian) – Uniting Church in Australia
Other
Unclassified
Sources
Hiram Rhodes Revels was a member of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
Please add Richard Cain, a Congressman to the membership of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
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