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Monarch of the United Kingdom: King Charles III is the supreme governor of the Church of England, [4] which places him as the titular leader of Anglican Christians in England. Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England. Archbishop of Canterbury: Justin Welby is the principal leader of the Anglican Communion.
270 Death of Gregory Thaumaturgus, Christian leader in Pontus. It was said that when Gregory became "bishop" there were only 17 Christians in Pontus while at his death thirty years later there were only 17 non-Christians.
Joseph Echols Lowery (October 6, 1921 – March 27, 2020) was an American minister in the United Methodist Church and leader in the civil rights movement.He founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Martin Luther King Jr. and others, serving as its vice president, later chairman of the board, and its third president from 1977 to 1997.
Edward was the second-born son of Engenas Lekganyane and his senior wife, Salfina Rabodiba, and was born in Thabakgone in the Mamabolo Reserve east of Polokwane.Although his exact birth date is unknown, he is known to have been born during a smallpox epidemic that led his father to quarantine his household for some time. [2]
For centuries after his death, Emperor Theodosius I (379-395) was regarded as the champion of Christian orthodoxy who stamped out paganism. Theodosius's predecessors had all been semi-Arians , and recent scholarship tends to see the ancient Christian writers as affirming orthodoxy rather than writing actual history.
Figuring prominently in this effort was Weyrich's right-hand man, Laszlo Pasztor, [13] a former leader of the pro-Nazi Arrow Cross Party in Hungary, which had collaborated with Hitler's Third Reich. After serving two years in prison for his Arrow Cross activities, Pasztor found his way to the United States, where he was instrumental in ...
According to a biographer, Graham was considered "among the most influential Christian leaders" of the 20th century. [3] Beginning in the late 1940s and early 1950s, Graham became known for filling stadiums and other massive venues around the world where he preached live sermons; these were often broadcast via radio and television with some ...
Johannes Tauler German Dominican (1300–1361), his 80 sermons in German were read for centuries after his death Oliver Maillard , French Franciscan (c.1430–1502) Savonarola Italian Dominican (1452–1498) famous for the Bonfire of the Vanities in Florence , finally executed for heresy