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Walkelin (or Walchelin) (died 1098) was the first Norman bishop of Winchester (Norman-French Vauquelin or Gauquelin).
Abraham Sternhartz (1862–1955), also known as Avraham Shternhartz, was an Orthodox rabbi in Ukraine and a unique and unsurpassed figure in the chain of transmission of Breslover teachings from the early generations of the movement to the latter one
John Shelby “Jack” Spong (born June 16, 1931) is a retired American bishop of the Episcopal Church. From 1979 to 2000 he was Bishop of Newark (based in Newark, New Jersey). He is a liberal Christian theologian, religion commentator and author. He cal
Jean-Marie Beurel was born on 5 February 1813 at Plouguenast, in Lower Brittany, France. He was assigned to the Mission of Siam by the Missions Étrangères de Paris and arrived in Singapore on 29 October 1839 at the age of 26. He was responsible for
Hsin Ting (Chinese: 心定和尚; pinyin: Xīndìng Héshàng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sim-tēng hô siōng; born February 2, 1944) is a Buddhist monk from Taiwan who served as the sixth-term abbot and director of Fo Guang Shan from 1997 to 2005. He served as
Nicholas Cheong Jin-Suk (born 7 December 1931) is a South Korean Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Seoul, from 1998 until retirement in 2012, having previously served as Bishop of Cheongju from 1970 to 1998, and was el
Susan Johnson is the current (since 2007) National Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC). She is the first woman to hold the post.
Pema Chödrön (born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown on July 14, 1936) is an American, Tibetan Buddhist. She is an ordained nun, acharya and disciple of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Chodron has written several books and is the director of the Gampo Abbey in No
Everardus Johannes (Everard) de Jong (July 4, 1958) is a Dutch prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is auxiliary bishop of Roermond since 1993.
Eliezer Waldman (Hebrew: אליעזר ולדמן, born 11 February 1937) is an Israeli rabbi and former politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Tehiya between 1984 and 1990.
Bishop Mathias Loras (August 30, 1792 – February 19, 1858) was an immigrant French priest to the United States who later became the first bishop of the Dubuque Diocese in what would become the state of Iowa.