List of religious leaders in 1879

1878 religious leaders – Events of 1879 – 1880 religious leaders – Religious leaders by year

Bahá'í Faith

Bahá'u'lláh, whose name means "the Glory of God", founded the Bahá'í Faith in 1863. He declared His mission in the city of Baghdad in the Garden of Rizvan (Persian: رضوان) near the Tigris River. He died in 1892

Christianity

Catholic

• Roman Catholic – Pope Leo XIII (February 20, 1878 – July 20, 1903)

Protestant

• Church of England – Archbishop of Canterbury -Archibald Campbell Tait (1868 – December 3, 1882)
• Church of Sweden – Archbishop of Uppsala Anton Niklas Sundberg (1870–1900)
• Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod – President Heinrich Christian Schwan (1878–1899)
• Seventh-day Adventist Church – President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists James White (1865–1867), (1869–1871), and (1874–1880)

Other Christians

• Church of Christ, Scientist-Mary Baker Eddy(1879–1910)
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) – John Taylor led as President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles until his presidency of the church started on October 10, 1880.
• Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints-Joseph Smith III(1860–1914)

Other Abrahamic faiths

• Judaism
  • Great Britain and British Empire – Nathan Marcus Adler (1845–1891)
• Nizari – Aga Khan I-46th Imam (1817–1881)

Buddhism

• Tibetan Buddhism – Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama(1876 – December 17, 1933)

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