List of religious leaders in 1946

1945 religious leaders - Events of 1946 - 1947 religious leaders - Religious leaders by year-----

See also:
*List of state leaders in 1946
*List of colonial governors in 1946

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)
*Old Catholic Church of the Mariavites - Roman Maria Jakub Próchniewski (1945-1953)
*Liberal Catholic Church, Province of the United States of America - John T. Eklund(1945-1948)
*Catholic Apostolic Church of Brazil - Carlos Duarte Costa (1945-1961 or later)

Eastern Orthodoxy

*Patriarch of Constantinople
**Patriarch Benjamin I (1936-1946)
**Patriarch Maximus V (1946-1948)
*Greek Patriarch of Alexandria-Christopher II (1939–1966)
*Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch - Alexander III (Tahan) (1928 - 1958)
*Orthodox Patriarch of JerusalemTimotheus I (1935 – 1955)
*Russian Orthodox Church - Patriarch Alexius I(1945–1970)
*Church of Greece - Archbishop of Athens Damaskenus (1941-1949)
*Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Kalistrate Tsintsadze (1932-1952)
*Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch of Serbia Gavrilo V Dozic-Medenica (Gabriel V) (1938-1950)

Oriental orthodoxy

*Coptic Christianity - Pope of Alexandria Joseph II (1946–1956)
**Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church - Abuna Qerellos IV (1945 - 1950) (restored, also was part of the Coptic Church until 1959)
*Indian Orthodox Church - Baselious Geevarghese II (1929-1964)
*Syriac Orthodox Church - Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch Ignatius Afram I Barsoum (1933 - 1957)
*Armenian Apostolic Church - Catholicos of Armenia George VI (1945-1954)

Assyrians

*Assyrian Church of the East - Patriarch of Babylon 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)
*Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod - President John Brenner (1933 – 1953)
*Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland - Archbishop of Turku Aleksi Lehtonen (1945-1951)
*New Apostolic Church - Chief Apostle Johann Gottfried Bischoff (1930 - 1960)
*The Salvation Army -
**General George Carpenter retired June 26, 1946.
**General Albert Orsborn from June 27 1946 to June 30, 1954
*Seventh-day Adventist Church - President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists J. Lamar McElhany (1936 - 1950)

Other Christian

*The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) - George Albert Smith, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from May 21, 1945 – April 4, 1951
*Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints(Now called Community of Christ) -
**Frederick Madison Smith - May 15, 1914 – April, 1946
**Israel Alexander Smith - April 6, 1946-October 6, 1958

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 in January 14, 1946)

Islam and its offshoots

Ismaili

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

Ahmadiyya

*Ahmadiyya Muslim Community-Khalifatul Masih II Hazrat Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmood Ahmad (1914-1965)
*Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement-Maulana Muhammad Ali(Amir 1914-1951)

New Religious Movements

*Iglesia ni Cristo - Executive minister Felix Manalo (1914-1953)
*Kimbanguism - Simon Kimbangu(1921-1951)
*Mita Congregation - Juanita García Peraza(1940-1970)
*Nation of Islam - Elijah Muhammad(1934-1975)
*Oomoto - Onisaburo Deguchi
*Radio Church of God(now called Worldwide Church of God) - Herbert W. Armstrong(incorporated as the Radio Church of God on March 3, 1946)
*Ramakrishna Mission - President Virajananda(1939–1951)

Buddhism

*Tibetan Buddhism - Fourteenth Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso (Officially 1935-present, but not discovered until 1937. See explanation at Dalai Lama)
*Supreme Patriarch of Thailand Somdet Phra Luang Vajirayanavangsa (1945-1958)