- 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
Anglican *
John Bani -President and head of state ofVanuatu from25 March ,1999 , until24 March ,2004 . Anglican priest.
*Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley - UK politician - only member of theHouse of Lords to sit as a member of the Green Party. Anglican priest.
*Walter Lini - FoundingPrime Minister ofVanuatu (succeeded by Bani). Anglican priest.Baptist *
William Aberhart - Founder of theSocial Credit Party of Alberta .
*Chuck Baldwin - United States Constitution Party activist and Baptist pastor.
*Ross Clifford - Australian politician:New South Wales Legislative Council andAustralian Senate candidate; and Baptist theologian.
*Jerry Falwell -- Republican presidential kingmaker
*Walter E. Fauntroy - Former member ofUnited States Congress and Baptist pastor.
*Ernie Fletcher - Governor ofKentucky from2003 -2007
*William H. Gray - former Congressman and minister.
*Benjamin Hooks - Americancivil rights leader and Baptist minister.
*Mike Huckabee - former governor ofArkansas and Baptist minister.
*Tim Hutchinson - former Senator fromArkansas and former Baptist pastor.
*Jesse Jackson -civil rights activist and Baptist minister.
*Martin Luther King -civil rights activist and Baptist minister.
*Ron Lewis - Retiring Republican member of theUnited States House of Representatives fromKentucky since1994 and Baptist minister.
*Pat Robertson - Republican supporter, former United States presidential nomination candidate, and former Baptist pastor.Catholicism *
Jean-Bertrand Aristide - former President ofHaiti , former Catholic priest.
*Ernesto Cardenal - former Minster for Culture forNicaragua and Catholic priest
*James Renshaw Cox - US Presidency candidate and Catholic priest.
*Andrej Hlinka - Slovak public activist and Catholic priest.
*Ludwig Kaas - prominent German politician duringWeimar Republic and Catholic priest.
*Hugo Kołłątaj - Polish social and political activist,political thinker,historian ,philosopher and Catholic priest.
*Gabriel Richard - FrenchRoman Catholic priest who became a delegate fromMichigan Territory to theU.S. House of Representatives .
*Stanisław Staszic - Polishpriest ,philosopher ,statesman ,geologist ,scholar ,poet andwriter , a leader of thePolish Enlightenment , famous for works related to the "Great" or "Four-Year Sejm " (1788-1792) and itsConstitution of May 3, 1791 .
*Luigi Sturzo - one of the founders of theItalian People's Party and Catholic priest.
*Jozef Tiso -fascist Slovakpolitician of the SPP, Roman Catholicpriest who became a deputy of the Czechoslovak parliament, a member of the Czechoslovak government, and finally thePresident of Independent Slovak Republic from 1939-1945, allied withNazi Germany .
*Beda Weber - GermanBenedictine professor ,author , and member of theFrankfurt Parliament .Jesuit *
Robert Drinan - Roman CatholicJesuit priest, lawyer,human rights activist, and Democratic U.S. Representative fromMassachusetts .Eastern Catholic Churches *
Paul Weyrich - US conservative political activist and commentator, ordainedprotodeacon in theMelkite Greek Catholic Church .Congregational church *
Samuel C. Fessenden - U.S.Congressman , pastor.
*Washington Gladden - leading AmericanCongregational church pastor leading member of theProgressive Movement , serving for two years as a member of the Columbus
*Fred Nile -New South Wales Legislative Council (Australia) member andFellowship of Congregational Churches minister.Disciples of Christ *
Gerald L. K. Smith - founder of the quasi-fascist America First Party andDisciples of Christ minister.
*Jim Spainhower - US politician fromMissouri and formerDisciples of Christ minister.Dutch Reformed Church *
Thomas François Burgers - President of theSouth African Republic 1871-77 and pastor.
*Abraham Kuyper - Dutchpolitician ,journalist ,statesman andtheologian . He founded theAnti-Revolutionary Party and wasprime minister of the Netherlands between 1901 and 1905. Dutch Reformed Church minister.
*Daniel François Malan - former Prime Minister of South Africa and minister.Eastern Orthodox Church es*
Miron Cristea - first Patriarch of theRomanian Orthodox Church andPrime Minister of Romania .
*Makarios III -archbishop and primate of theautocephalous Cypriot Orthodox Church (1950-1977) and firstPresident of the Republic of Cyprus (1960-1977).
*Fan S. Noli -Albania nOrthodox bishop and politician, who served briefly as prime minister and regent of Albania in1924 .
*Feofan Prokopovich -archbishop andstatesman in theRussian Empire , elaborated and implemented Peter the Great's reform of theRussian Orthodox Church .Episcopalian *
Benjamin W. Arnett -Ohio State Legislature politician andAfrican Methodist Episcopal Church pastor .
*John Danforth - formerUnited States Ambassador to the United Nations and former Republican United States Senator fromMissouri , ordained Episcopal priest.Evangelist *
Charles Colson - chief counsel forPresident of the United States Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973 and was one of theWatergate Seven . Maintains a variety of media channels which discuss contemporary issues from an EvangelicalChristian worldview; Colson's views are typically consistent with a politically conservative interpretation of evangelical Christianity.Evangelical Lutheran *
Dean Johnson - formermajority leader of theMinnesota Senate and minister in theEvangelical Lutheran Church in America .
*Lauri Ingman -Archbishop of Turku (1930 -1934 ),Prime Minister of Finland (1918 -1919 ,1924 -1925 )Lutheran *
Kjell Magne Bondevik - Norwegian Lutheran minister and politician;Prime Minister of Norway from 1997 to 2000, and from 2001 to 2005.
*Walter H. Moeller - American politician of the Democratic party, entered a Lutheran seminary in1935 and served as a pastor in the 1940s and after his retirement from politics.Methodist *
Henry Augustus Buchtel - American public official and educator, ordained to the Methodist Episcopal ministry and served for a year as amissionary inBulgaria .
*John Bull (congressman) - American clergyman and physician who representedMissouri in the U.S. Congress in1833 and1834 .
*Emanuel Cleaver - United Methodist pastor and a Democratic politician from the state ofMissouri . He was elected to theUnited States House of Representatives in November2004 to represent ushr|Missouri|5|.
*Robert W. Edgar - former Congressman and Methodist pastor.
*Robert P. Shuler -Prohibition Party candidate who received the highest vote in any election in U.S. history, Methodist pastor.
*Donald Soper, Baron Soper - prominentMethodist minister,socialist andpacifist .
*Ted Strickland - Governor ofOhio , briefly a United Methodist pastor.
*Silas C. Swallow -United States Methodist preacher andprohibitionist politician.
*Aaron S. Watkins -Prohibition Party candidate and Methodist minister.
*Robert L. Williams - third Governor ofOklahoma and Methodist minister.
*Terry Wynn - Methodist local preacher andMember of the European Parliament Pentecostal *Andrew Evans -
South Australian Legislative Council (Family First Party ) member and Pentecostal Christian pastor.
*Anne McBride - Canadian politician ordained in theAssemblies of God .
*Danny Nalliah - President of anAssemblies of God related group,Family First Party candidate.
*Judy Turner -New Zealand politician, pastoral and community worker atNew Life Churches, New Zealand .
*Marcelo Crivella - senator in the federal government ofBrazil Presbyterian *
William H. Hudnut III - Presbyterian minister, Congressional representative from Indiana 1972-1974, and then four-term mayor of Indianapolis.
*Ian Paisley - First Minister of Northern Ireland, veteranpolitician and church leader inNorthern Ireland ; founding member and current Moderator of theFree Presbyterian Church of Ulster .
*John Witherspoon - a signatory of theUnited States Declaration of Independence as a representative ofNew Jersey . He was the only activeclergyman to sign the Declaration.United Church *
Bill Blaikie - current Deputy Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons. He has been aMember of Parliament (MP) since 1979, representing theWinnipeg riding ofElmwood—Transcona and its antecedents as a member of theNew Democratic Party . Minister ofUnited Church of Canada .
*Lorne Calvert - former premier of the Canadian province ofSaskatchewan and current leader ofHer Majesty's Loyal Opposition , as leader of theSaskatchewan New Democratic Party . Ordained minister ofUnited Church of Canada .
*Brian Howe -Australia n politician, was Deputy Prime Minister in the Labor government ofPaul Keating , and minister ofUniting Church in Australia .
*Stanley Knowles - Canadianparlementarian . United Church minister.
*Doug Lauchlan - Canadian politician, minister and educator, ordained minister in theUnited Church of Canada .
*Doug Martindale - politician inManitoba ,Canada . He has been a member of theLegislative 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 theUniting Church in Australia andGovernor of Victoria from1986 -1992 .
*David MacDonald -United Church of Canada minister and a former Canadian politician and author.
*Lloyd Stinson - politician inManitoba ,Canada , and the leader of that province's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) from1953 to1959 , and ordained United Church minister.
*Andrew Young - Americancivil rights activist, formermayor ofAtlanta , Georgia, andUnited States ' firstAfrican-American ambassador to the United Nations,United Church of Christ pastor.
*Keith Seaman (Australian ) -Uniting Church in Australia Other
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Gregorio Aglipay - foundedPhilippine Independent Church
*Harold Albrecht -Brethren in Christ
*Graham Capill -Reformed Churches of New Zealand
*William Irvine (Methodist thenUnitarian )
*Donald Malinowski -Polish National Catholic Church
*Kenneth Meshoe -Glory of Hope Tabernacle
*Efraín Ríos Montt -Church of the Word
*Gordon Moyes -New South Wales Legislative Council (Australia )Christian Democratic Party member,Churches of Christ in Australia minister.
*Douglas Nicholls (Australian ) -Churches of Christ in Australia Unclassified
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Reinhold Niebuhr -Christian Realism . In his younger days he was a socialist candidate forNew York state Senate
*Wavel Ramkalawan -Seychelles politician and priest.
*Hiram Rhodes Revels -Methodist Episcopalian
*Albert Edward Smith -Communist Party of Canada politician, but considered himself Christian throughout.
*William Horace Temple -Christian Socialist
*László Tőkés - Bishop inReformed Church in Romania and involved in theDemocratic Union of Hungarians in Romania .
*Tim Walberg - non-denominationalProtestant ources
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