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Religion
Religious Figures
A Aaron
Abbas
Abel
Abernethy, John
Abiathar
Abigail
Abner
Abraham
Absalom
Abu Bakr
Abulafia, Abraham
Acosta, José de
Adalbert, St
Adam and Eve
Adam Scotus
Adamnan, St
Adrian I
Adrian IV
Adrian VI
Aelfric
Agagianian, Gregory Peter XV
Agatha, St
Agnes, St
Ahasuerus
Ahura Mazda
Aidan, St
Ainsworth, Henry
Aisha
Akiba ben Joseph
Alban, St
Albert of Brandenburg
Aleandro, Girolamo
Alexander III (pope)
Alexander VI
Alexi II
Ali ibn Abi Talib
Alter, Simha
Amaziah
Ambrose, St
Anan ben David
Andrew, St
Andrewes, Lancelot
Anselm, St
Ansgar, St
Anthony of Padua, St
Anthony, St
Antoninus, St
Apollinaris the Younger
Aquila (history)
Aquila, Johann Kaspar
Aquinas, St Thomas
Arminius, Jacobus
Arnaud, Henri
Arnauld, Antoine
Arnold of Brescia
Arsenius Autorianus
Arundel, Thomas
Asbury, Francis
Asher
Ashi
Ashoka
Athanasius, St
Athenagoras I
Atterbury, Francis
Augustine of Canterbury, St
Augustine of Hippo, St
Avitus, St Sextus Alcimus Ecdicius
B Baal Shem Tov
Balaam
Ball, John
Bar Hebraeus
Barabbas
Barbara, St
Barnabas
Barth, Karl
Bartholomew, St
Basil, St
Basilides
Bathsheba
Baur, Ferdinand Christian
Baxter, Richard
Becket, Thomas à
Bede, The Venerable
Bellarmine, St Robert
Belshazzar
Ben Asher, Jacob
Benedict IX
Benedict of Nursia, St
Benedict VIII
Benedict XIII
Benedict XIV
Benedict XV
Benedict XVI
Benjamin
Berdyayev, Nikolay Aleksandrovich
Berkeley, George
Bernadette, St
Bernard of Clairvaux, St
Bernard of Menthon, St
Bernardino of Siena, St
Bernward of Hildesheim, St
Besant, Annie
Bessarion
Beza, Theodore
Biddle, John
Black Elk
Blaise, St
Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna
Bodhidharma
Bodhisattva
Boehme, Jakob
Bonaventure, St
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
Boniface IX
Boniface, St
Boniface VIII
Booth, Evangeline Cory
Booth, William
Borromeo, St Charles
Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne
Brébeuf, St Jean de
Brendan, St
Bridget of Sweden, St
Brigid of Ireland, St
Broughton, Hugh
Browne, Robert
Bruno of Cologne, St
Bruno of Querfurt, St
Bruno, St
Bryennios, Philotheos
Bucer, Martin
Buddha
Buddhaghosa
Bugenhagen, Johann
Bukhari, Al-
Bullinger, Heinrich
Bultmann, Rudolf Karl
Butler, Alban
Butler, Joseph
C Cabrini, St Frances Xavier
Cadman, Samuel Parkes
Caiaphas
Cain
Cajetan
Caleb
Callistus
Callistus II
Callistus III
Calvin, John
Campion, St Edmund
Canisius, St Peter
Cannon, James
Canterbury, Archbishop of
Carey, George Leonard
Caro, Joseph ben Ephraim
Carranza, Bartolomé De
Cassian, John
Catherine of Alexandria, St
Catherine of Genoa, St
Catherine of Siena, St
Cecilia, St
Celestine I, St
Celestine III
Celestine V, St
Cerinthus
Chaitanya
Challoner, Richard
Chalmers, Thomas
Channing, William Ellery
Chemnitz, Martin
Christopher, St
Chrysologus, St Peter
Chrysostom, St John
Clare of Assisi, St
Clement I, St
Clement of Alexandria
Clement V
Clement VI
Clement VII (antipope)
Clement VII (pope)
Clement VIII
Clement XI
Clement XIV
Clotilda, St
Coggan, Lord Frederick Donald, Baron of Canterbury
Coke, Thomas
Colet, John
Columba, St
Columban, St
Consalvi, Ercole
Conway, Moncure Daniel
Cornelius, St
Cotton, John
Coverdale, Miles
Cranmer, Thomas
Crispin and Crispinian, SS
Cuthbert, St
Cyprian, St
Cyril (827-869) and Methodius (c. 826-884), SS
Cyril of Alexandria, St
Cyril of Jerusalem, St
D D'Ailly, Pierre
Daisetz T(eitaro) Suzuki
Dalai Lama
Damasus I, St
Damian, St Peter
Dan (Biblical figure)
Davenport, John
David (king)
David, St
Davidson, Randall Thomas, Baron
Dayananda Sarasvati
Deborah
Delilah
Denis, St
Devadatta
Dionysius of Alexandria, St
Dionysius the Areopagite
Dogen
Döllinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von
Dominic, St
Dunstan, St
Duvergier de Hauranne, Jean
Dyer, Mary
E Eck, Johann
Eckhart, Meister
Eddy, Mary Baker
Edmund of Abingdon, St
Edmund, St
Edwards, Jonathan
Eisai
Elijah
Elijah ben Solomon
Elisha
Elizabeth of Hungary, St
Elizabeth, St
Enoch (Biblical figure)
Ephraim
Epiphanius, St
Esau
Escrivá, St Josémaría
Eugene III
Eugene IV
Eunomius
Eusebius of Caesarea
Eusebius of Nicomedia
Eutyches
F Fabian, St
Farel, Guillaume
Fatima
Faxian
Feijóo y Montenegro, Benito Jerónimo
Felix II
Felix V
Fiacre, St
Filaret
Fisher, Geoffrey Francis
Fisher, St John
Flacius Illyricus, Matthias
Formosus
Fox, George
Foxe, John
Francis of Assisi, St
Francis of Paola, St
Francis of Sales, St
Frank, Jacob
Frankel, Zacharias
Fuller, Thomas
G Gad
Gamaliel
Ganjin
Gardiner, Stephen
Geiger, Abraham
Gelasius I, St
Geneviève, St
George, St
Gerson, Jean de
Ghose, Sri Aurobindo
Gideon
Goliath
Gonzaga, St Aloysius
Gore, Charles
Graham, Billy
Gratian (c. 1090-1155)
Gregory I, St
Gregory II, St
Gregory IX
Gregory of Nazianzus, St
Gregory of Nyssa, St
Gregory of Tours, St
Gregory VII, St
Gregory XI
Gregory XIII
Groote, Gerhard
Guru Amar Das
Guru Nanak
H Hagar
Ham
Haman
Handsome Lake
Harris, William Wade
Helena, St
Henderson, Alexander
Hermas
Herzl, Theodor
Hilarion, St
Hilary of Poitiers, St
Hilda, St
Hillel
Hippolytus of Rome, St
Honen
Honorius I
Hooker, Richard
Hooker, Thomas
Hormisdas, St
Hou Tu
Hugh of Lincoln, St
Huineng
Hume, Cardinal (George) Basil
Husain
Huss, John
I Ibn Al-Arabi
Ibn Hanbal, Ahmad
Ignatius of Antioch, St
Immanuel
Innocent I, St
Innocent III
Innocent IV
Innocent XI
Irenaeus, St
Isaac
Ishmael
Isidore of Seville, St
Issachar
J Jacob (Biblical figure)
James (saints)
Jansen, Cornelis
Japheth
Jehoahaz
Jehoash
Jehoiachin
Jehoram
Jehoshaphat
Jehu
Jephthah
Jeremiah
Jeroboam I
Jerome of Prague
Jerome, St
Jesse
Jesus Christ
Jezebel
Joab
Joachim of Fiore
Joan, Pope
Job
Joel
Johanan ben Zakkai
John Baptist de la Salle, St
John I, St
John II (pope)
John of Capistrano, St
John of Damascus, St
John of Nepomuk, St
John Paul I
John Paul II
John the Baptist, St
John the Evangelist
John VIII
John X
John XII
John XXI
John XXII
John XXIII (antipope)
John XXIII (pope)
Jonah
Jonathan
Joseph
Joseph of Arimathea, St
Joseph, St
Josephus, Flavius
Joshua
Josiah
Judah
Judas Iscariot
Jude, St
Judith
Julius I, St
Julius II
Justin Martyr, St
K Kabir
Kaplan, Mordecai Menahem
Karlstadt
Keble, John
Kentigern, St
Khomyakov, Aleksey Stepanovich
Kimhi
Knox, John
Krochmal, Nachman Kohen
L Lanfranc
Lang, (William) Cosmo Gordon, Baron of Lambeth
Langton, Stephen
Las Casas, Bartolomé de
Latimer, Hugh
Laud, William
Law, William
Lawrence of Brindisi, St
Lawrence, St
Lazarus
Leah
Leo I, St
Leo III, St
Leo IX, St
Leo X
Leo XIII
León, Moses ben Shem-Tob de
Leon of Modena
Levi
Liguori, St Alphonsus
Lilith
Linus, St
Lot
Loyola, St Ignatius of
Lucian of Antioch, St
Luke, St
Lully, Raymond
Luria, Isaac ben Solomon
Luther, Martin
M Madhva
Magnes, Judah Leon
Mahavira
Maimonides
Malachy, St
Manasseh (elder son of Joseph)
Manasseh (king)
Manning, Henry Edward
Mannix, Daniel
Marcellinus, St
Margaret Mary Alacoque, St
Mark, St
Martin de Porres, St
Martin I, St
Martin IV
Martin, St
Martin V
Martineau, James
Mary Magdalene, St
Mary (Virgin Mary)
Mather, Cotton
Mather, Increase
Matthew, St
Matthias
Maurice, Frederick Denison
Maurice, St
Maximus, St
Melanchthon
Menno Simons
Mercier, Désiré Joseph
Merle d'Aubigné, Jean Henri
Merton, Thomas
Methuselah
Micah
Michael
Milarepa
Miller, William
Mindszenty, József
Mira Bai
Miriam
Moon, Sun Myung
Moses
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Muhammad (c. 570-632)
Muhammad, Elijah
Münzer, Thomas
N Nagarjuna
Naphtali
Neri, St Philip
Nestorius
Neumann, St John Nepomucene
Newman, John Henry
Nichiren
Nicholas I, St
Nicholas III
Nicholas of Cusa
Nicholas, St
Nicholas V
Nikon
Noah
Novatian
O Oecolampadius, Johannes
Origen
O'Toole, St Lawrence
Otto, Rudolf
P Pachomius, St
Padmasambhava
Parker, Matthew
Paschal II
Patriarchs
Patrick, St
Paul III
Paul IV
Paul of Thebes, St
Paul, St
Paul V
Paul VI
Peter, St
Peter the Hermit
Philip, St
Photius
Pilate, Pontius
Pius II
Pius IV
Pius IX
Pius V, St
Pius VI
Pius VII
Pius X, St
Pius XI
Pius XII
Pole, Reginald
Polycarp, St
Pusey, Edward Bouverie
Q Quimby, Phineas Parkhurst
R Rachel (Biblical figure)
Rahner, Karl
Ramakrishna
Ramsey, (Arthur) Michael, Baron of Canterbury
Rashi
Rebekah
Rehoboam
Reuben
Ricci, Matteo
Ridley, Nicholas
Ritschl, Albrecht
Rose of Lima, St
Runcie, Lord Robert Alexander Kennedy, Baron of Cuddesdon
Russell, Charles Taze
S Salome
Samson
Samuel
Sarah
Saul
Schechter, Solomon
Schleiermacher, Friedrich Ernst Daniel
Schneerson, Menachem Mendel
Schweitzer, Albert
Schwenkfeld von Ossig, Kaspar
Sebastian, St
Seraphim of Sarov, St
Sergius of Radonezh, St
Servetus, Michael
Seth
Seton, St Elizabeth Ann
Severus of Antioch
Shammai
Shankara
Shem
Silverius, St
Simeon
Simeon Stylites, St
Simon the Canaanite
Siricius, St
Sixtus IV
Sixtus V
Smith, Joseph
Socinus
Solomon (king)
Spener, Philipp Jakob
Stein, St Edith
Stephen I, St
Stephen II
Stephen II (III)
Stephen, St
Stephen VI (VII)
Sternberg, Sir Sigmund
Strang, James Jesse
Swithin
Sylvester I, St
Sylvester II
T Temple, William
Teresa of Ávila, St
Thaddaeus
Thecla of Iconium, St
Theodore of Mopsuestia
Theresa of Lisieux, St
Thomas à Kempis
Thomas, St
Timothy, St
Titus, St
Tribes of Israel, Twelve
Troeltsch, Ernst
Tulsi Das
Tyndale, William
Tyrrell, George
U Ulfilas
Urban II
Urban III
Urban IV
Urban V
Urban VI
Urban VIII
Ursula, St
Ussher, James
Uthman ibn Affan
V Varah, (Edward) Chad
Veronica, St
Victor I, St
Victor III
Vincent de Paul, St
Vincent of Lérins, St
Vincent (Vicente) Ferrer, St
Vitus, St
Vivekananda
Vladimir, St
W Walburga, St
Wesley, Charles
Wesley, John
Whitefield, George
Wilberforce, Samuel
Wilfrid, St
Williams, Rowan Douglas
Willibrord, St
Wise, Isaac Mayer
Wise Men of the East
Wise, Stephen Samuel
Wishart, George
Wonhyo Daisa
Wycliffe, John
X Xavier, St Francis
Xuanzang
Y Young, Brigham
Z Zachary, St
Zebulun
Zhang Daoling
Zinzendorf, Nikolaus Ludwig, Graf von
Zoroaster
Zosimus, St
Zunz, Leopold
Zwingli, Huldreich
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