List of religious leaders in 2008

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2007 religious leaders - Events of 2008 - 2009 religious leaders - Religious leaders by year

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Note: Some religions reject the idea of having a leader or leading council in such a way that they can not be listed. When possible/plausible a leading figure will be named, but in some cases this will not be possible or desirable.

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[edit] Buddhism

[edit] Mahayana Buddhism

[edit] Theravada Buddhism

[edit] Vajrayana Buddhism

[edit] Christianity

[edit] Catholicism

[edit] Catholic Churches in Communion with Rome

[edit] Catholic churches not in communion with Rome

[edit] Mariavite groups

[edit] Liberal and Independent Catholic Churches

[edit] Traditionalist Catholicism

[edit] National or Regional movements

[edit] Eastern Orthodox

[edit] Eastern orthodox churches in Communion

[edit] Autocephalous

[edit] Autonomous Orthodox Churches in Communion

[edit] Schismatic Orthodox Churches not currently in Communion

[edit] Old Believers not currently in Communion

  • Pomorian Old-Orthodox Church
    • Chairman of the Council of the Pomorian Old-Orthodox Church in Russia - Oleg Ivanovich Rozanov (?-present)
    • Chairman of the Council of the Pomorian Old-Orthodox Church in Belarus - Pyotr Alexandrovich Orlov (2001-present)
    • Chairman of the Council of the Pomorian Old-Orthodox Church in Latvia - Alexy Karatayev (?-present)
    • Chairman of the Council of the Pomorian Old-Orthodox Church in Lithuania - Nikolay Pilnikov (2002-present)
    • Chairman of the Council of the Pomorian Old-Orthodox Church in Poland - Feodosy Novichenko (1993-present)
  • Lipovan Orthodox Old-Rite Church - Leonty (Izotov) (1996-present)
  • Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church - Korniliy (Titov) (2005-present)
  • Russian Old-Orthodox Church - A. Alexander of Novozybkov, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia (2000-present)

[edit] Oriental Orthodox

[edit] Anglican Communion

See also: List of current Anglican Primates

[edit] Provinces of the Anglican Communion

[edit] Churches in full communion

[edit] Protestant churches

  1. Raymond Schultz, National Bishop
  2. Susan Johnson
  1. Udo Petersoo, Archbishop of Canada, (1990-2006)
  2. Andres Taul, Archbishop of Canada (2007-)
  1. Karl R. Gurgel, President (1993-2007)
  2. Mark Schroeder (2007-present)

[edit] Other Christian or Christian-derived faiths

[edit] Islam

[edit] Shia Islam

Note: It should be mentioned that in Shi'a Islam, apart from the Twelfth Imam currently in occultation, there are no religious leaders. The highest religious authorities in Shi'a Islam are the few marjas, or Grand Ayatollahs, who give their interpretation (ijtihad) of religious laws.

[edit] Sunni Islam

Note: It is important to mention Sunni Islam has no leaders as the term is understood in the Christian world. There is currently no caliph. Even when the caliphate was active it was not equivalent to a "Pope" or "Dalai Lama". In fact such a thing could well be deemed shirk in orthodox Sunni circles. The following people are mentioned to add Sunni content as they are leading figures.

[edit] Islam: Ismaili, Ahmadiyya, Druze and others

[edit] Islam or Islam derived

[edit] Jainism

[edit] Judaism

Note: As with Islam these leaders may not necessarily have that much authority, it varies from group to group.

[edit] Sikhism

[edit] Other

[edit] Bahá'í

[edit] Western origin

[edit] Indian subcontinent origin

[edit] Ramakrishna Mission

[edit] New Religions

Some of these new religions are classified as "sects" in several countries.

[edit] Eastern or Hindu derived

[edit] Speculative science derived

[edit] Other

[edit] External links

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