List_of_religious_leaders_in_1945

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

See also:

• List of state leaders in 1945
• List of colonial governors in 1945

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 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)

Buddhism

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

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