List of Christian clergy in politics explained
Background
There are existing sub-sections on religious denominations to deal with Christian lay people in politics, e.g. List of LDS politicians. This list is for politicians who also do Christian pastoral work, both ordained clergy and evangelists or theologians. It is therefore not appropriate to add Christian lay people to the list, although some noted theologians in the laity are included as relational.
List
- John Bani – President and head of state of Vanuatu from 25 March 1998 until 24 March 2004; Anglican priest
- Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley – UK politician; first member of the House of Lords to sit as a member of the Green Party; Anglican priest
- Dennis Drainville - New Democratic MPP for Ontario from 1990-1993. Later Anglican Bishop of Quebec from 2009-2017.
- Stephen Green, Baron Green of Hurstpierpoint - Conservative Minister of State for Trade and Investment from 2011-2013, Member of House of Lords Temporal since 2010, Church of England priest
- Lee Jae-joung – National Assembly member and Unification Minister of South Korea; Anglican priest
- Walter Lini – founding Prime Minister of Vanuatu (succeeded by Bani); Anglican priest
- Peter Douglas Koon - Hong Kong Anglican Priest, provincial secretary general of Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui, Member of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, Member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council
- J. G. MacManaway British Unionist who was disqualified from sitting on Parliament due to his status as a priest; Church of Ireland priest
- Jacob Mountain - Canadian Politician. Member of the Legislative Council of Lower Canada from 1793 - 1825 and a Member of the Legislative Council of Upper Canada from 1793-1825. 1st Anglican Bishop of Quebec.
- Wavel Ramkalawan - Anglican priest and 5th President of the Seychelles
- John Terris - Anglican priest, Labour politician, Deputy Speaker (hence also Acting Speaker), and Chairman of Committees of the New Zealand House of Representatives from 1984 to 1990. Mayor of Lower Hutt City 1995-2004.
- K.H. Ting -Anglican priest, Bishop of Chekiang, vice-chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (1989–2008), and a member of the National People's Congress, China's legislature.
Baptist
- Benny M. Abante – former two-termed Congressman of the Philippines; awarded as Most Outstanding Congressmen of Philippines in the 13th and 14th Congresses; founder and pastor of Metropolitan Bible Baptist Church in the Philippines
- William Aberhart – founder of the Social Credit Party of Alberta
- Chuck Baldwin – United States Constitution Party activist and Baptist pastor
- E.W. Jackson Lawyer and Baptist Minister and bishop; candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia
- Ross Clifford – Australian politician; New South Wales Legislative Council and Australian Senate candidate; Baptist theologian
- Thomas Clement "Tommy" Douglas – Canadian social democratic politician and Baptist minister; elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1935 as a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF); became the Saskatchewan CCF's leader, then the seventh Premier of Saskatchewan, 1944-1961
- Walter E. Fauntroy – former member of United States Congress and Baptist pastor
- Ernie Fletcher – Governor of Kentucky, 2003–2007
- James Garrard – Governor of Kentucky, 1796–1804
- William H. Gray – former Congressman and minister
- Benjamin Hooks – American civil rights leader and Baptist minister
- Mike Huckabee – former governor of Arkansas and Baptist minister
- Tim Hutchinson – former Senator from Arkansas and former Baptist pastor
- Jesse Jackson – civil rights activist and Baptist minister
- James Lankford – former member of the United States House of Representative (2011-2015) and current United States Senator from the State of Oklahoma. Lankford served as a student ministry and evangelism specialist with the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma and Falls Creek Baptist Conference Center. He is a graduate of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, TX.
- Martin Luther King Jr. – civil rights activist and Baptist minister
- Ron Lewis – Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky between 1994 and 2009; Baptist minister
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. – thirteen term Congressman from Harlem, New York City (1945-1971); Pastor Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem (1937-1972)
- Pat Robertson – Republican supporter, former United States presidential nomination candidate, and former Baptist pastor.
- William Tolbert- Member of the Liberian House of Representatives, Vice-President of Liberia, and last President of Liberia who represented the True Whig Party and the old Americo-Liberian aristocracy. Baptist minister and first African president of the Baptist World Alliance
- Raphael Warnock – United States Senator from Georgia, elected January 2021. Senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church.
Roman Catholicism
See also: List of popes.
- Barthélemy Boganda – former priest and Central African politician
- Jean-Bertrand Aristide – former President of Haiti; former Catholic priest
- Ernesto Cardenal – former Minister for Culture for Nicaragua and Catholic priest
- Robert John Cornell – Norbertine priest and Representative from Wisconsin from 1975 to 1979
- James Renshaw Cox – US Presidency candidate and Catholic priest
- Robert Drinan – Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, lawyer, human rights activist, and Democratic US Representative from Massachusetts
- Jerome D'Souza – Indian Jesuit, member of the Constituent Assembly of India 1946–50
- José Manuel Gallegos – Priest and New Mexico delegate from 1853 to 1856
- Ivan Grubišić – Roman Catholic priest, sociologist, and independent representative in the Croatian Parliament
- Andrej Hlinka – Slovak public activist and Catholic priest
- Theodor Innitzer (later Cardinal Innitzer) – Austrian Minister of Social Administration (1929–1930)
- Ludwig Kaas – prominent German politician during Weimar Republic and Catholic priest
- Gabriel Wilhelmus Manek, S.V.D. - Member of Provincial Parliament (M.P.P) of East Indonesia
- Hugo Kołłątaj – Polish social and political activist, political thinker, historian, philosopher and Catholic priest
- Fernando Arturo de Meriño – President of the Dominican Republic (1880–1882)
- Mihovil Pavlinović – Roman Catholic priest, writer, and People's Party representative in the Diet of Dalmatia, Croatian Parliament and Austro-Hungarian Imperial Council
- Gabriel Richard – French Roman Catholic priest who became a delegate from Michigan Territory to the US House of Representatives
- Ignaz Seipel – Chancellor of Austria for two stints during the 1920s
- Josip Juraj Strossmayer bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Đakovo, leader of the People's Party, member of the Croatian Parliament, prefect of the Virovitica County, and President of the Croatian Royal Board
- Stanisław Staszic – Polish priest, philosopher, statesman, geologist, scholar, poet and writer; a leader of the Polish Enlightenment; famous for works related to the "Great" or "Four-Year Sejm" (1788–1792) and its Constitution of 3 May 1791
- Luigi Sturzo – one of the founders of the Italian People's Party; Catholic priest
- Jozef Tiso – fascist Slovak politician of the SPP; Roman Catholic priest who became a deputy of the Czechoslovak parliament, a member of the Czechoslovak government, and finally the President of Independent Slovak Republic from 1939–1945, allied with Nazi Germany
- Beda Weber – German Benedictine professor, author, and member of the Frankfurt Parliament
- Charles Colson – chief counsel for President of the United States Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973 and was one of the Watergate Seven; maintains a variety of media channels which discuss contemporary issues from an Evangelical Christian worldview; his views are typically consistent with a politically conservative interpretation of evangelical Christianity
- Marcelo Crivella Evangelical pastor, mayor of Rio de Janeiro
- Eduardo Villanueva (born 6 October 1946) – known as Bro. Eddie;[1] religious and political leader in the Philippines; 2010 Philippine presidential candidate; founder and leader of the Jesus is Lord Church[2]
- Dan Johnson (1960-2017) – known as the "Pope;" Elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives for the 49th District; Committed suicide after allegations and investigations for child molestation
- William H. Hudnut III – Presbyterian minister, Congressional representative from Indiana 1972–1974, four-term mayor of Indianapolis
- Ian Paisley – First Minister of Northern Ireland, veteran politician and church leader in Northern Ireland; founding member and former Moderator of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster
- Ham Tae-Young – 3rd Vice-President of the Republic of Korea, judge during the Korean Empire, Korean independence and nationalist leader
- Stephanie Stahl Hamilton – Ordained PCUSA minister, Democratic member of both Arizona House of Representatives and the state senate
- Kang Ryang-uk - Presbyterian Minister, Relative of Kim Il-Sung, secretary general of the Provisional People's Committee of North Korea, representative of the 1st class of the Supreme People's Assembly of Korea, Secretary of the Standing Committee, Chairman of the Korean Christian Federation, Vice-Chairman and later Chairman of the North Korean Social Democratic Party, and was twice elected as Vice-President
- Larry Pittman – Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly and ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church of America
- James Smith – Presbyterian minister who was appointed to a diplomatic post in Scotland by President Abraham Lincoln
- Norman Thomas - Presbyterian minister who was a six-time presidential nominee for the Socialist Party of America.
- John Witherspoon – signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New Jersey; the only active clergyman to sign the Declaration
- Arnold Nordmeyer - Presbyterian Minister, Minister of Finance (1957–1960), Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition (1963–1965).
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Sources
Notes and References
- http://www.broeddie.ph Bro. Eddie
- Web site: Jesus is Lord Church . 10 February 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100925221504/http://jilworldwide.org/v2/index.php . 25 September 2010 . dead .
