List of religious leaders in 1945

1944 religious leaders - Events of 1945 - 1946 religious leaders - Religious leaders by year

See also:

Contents

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

Christianity

Catholic

Roman Catholic Church - Pope Pius XII (1939–1958)

Catholic not in communion with Rome

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

Assyrian Christianity

Assyrian Church of the East-Assyrian Patriarch in Qochanis Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII (1920–1975)

Protestant and offshoots

Church of England - Archbishop of Canterbury Geoffrey Fisher(1945–1961)
Church of Sweden - Archbishop of Uppsala - Erling Eidem(1931–1950)
Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod - President John W. Behnken (1935–1962)
The Salvation Army - General George Carpenter (1939–1946)

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 - May 14, 1945)
- George Albert Smith, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (May 21, 1945–1951)
Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Now called Community of Christ) - Frederick Madison Smith (1914–1946)

Judaism

Chief rabbi of British Mandate of Palestine
- Ashkenazi - Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog(1936–1948)
Chief rabbi of the British Empire - Joseph H. Hertz (1913 to 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)

Buddhism

Tibetan Buddhism - Fourteenth Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso (Officially 1935–present, but not discovered until 1937. See explanation at Dalai Lama)