List of religious leaders in 1936

See also:

1935 religious leaders – Events of 1936 – 1937 religious leaders – Religious leaders by year

Contents

1 Christianity
2 Judaism
3 Islam
- 3.1 Ismaili
- 3.2 Ahmadiyya

Christianity

Catholic

Roman Catholic Church-Pope Pius XI (1922-February 1939)

Catholic not in communion with Rome

Polish National Catholic Church – First Prime Bishop Franciszek Hodur: Founder presided as Prime Bishop from (1924–1946)

Eastern Orthodoxy

Patriarch of Constantinople Benjamin I (1936–1946)
Serbian Orthodox Church – Patriarch Varnava Rosic (1930–1937)

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)

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)

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)

Judaism

Chief rabbi of Palestine – Abraham Isaac Kook (1921–1935)
Chief rabbi of Palestine, Sephardi – Jacob Meir (1921–1939)
Chief rabbi of Ireland – Ashkenazi – Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog (1919–1936)
Chief rabbi of the British Empire – Joseph H. Hertz (1913 till his death on January 14, 1946)

Islam

Ismaili

Nizari – Aga Khan III (1885–1957)
Dawoodi Bohras – Syedna Taher Saifuddin (1915–1965)

Ahmadiyya

Ahmadiyya Muslim Community – Khalifatul Masih II, Hazrat Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad (1914–1965)
Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement-Maulana Muhammad Ali(Amir 1914–1951)