Famous Clergymen

• Berrigan, Daniel

  The anti-war priest hunted by the FBI

• Berrigan, Philip

  Blood-pouring, missile-hammering ex-priest

• Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

  The theologian hanged for plotting against Hitler

• Coffin, William Sloane

  The Yale chaplain who opposed the U.S. war in Vietnam

• Davidson, Harold

  The scandalous Rector of Stiffkey

• Emerson, Ralph Waldo

  A founder of Transcendentalism

• Falwell, Jerry

  Founder of the Moral Majority

• Fosdick, Harry Emerson

  Liberal Protestant preacher who wrote, "Shall the Fundamentalists Win?"

• Galfridus Monemutensis

  The 12th century author of 'Historia Regum Britanniae'

• Jackson, Jesse

  Aide to Martin Luther King and candidate for U.S. president

• Jakes, T.D.

  Pentecostal preacher who wrote "Woman, Thou Art Loosed"

• King, Martin Luther, Jr.

  The civil rights hero who said "I have a dream"

• LaHaye, Tim

  Minister and co-author of Left Behind

• Moon, William

  Developer of raised lettering for blind readers

• Newman, John Henry

  The Anglican priest who converted to Catholicism

• Paisley, Ian

  Protestant preacher and Northern Ireland politician

• Robinson, V. Gene

  The world's first openly gay Anglican bishop

• Rogers, Fred

  Host of the children's TV series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

• Tutu, Desmond

  The bishop who won a Nobel prize for opposing apartheid

• Warren, Rick

  "Purpose-driven" pastor and author

• Wright, Jeremiah

  Estranged former pastor of Barack Obama

See: Index by Occupation