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Thomas Charles was a Welsh religious leader, a founder of Calvinistic Methodism in Wales and an inspirer of missionary......
Pierre Charron was a French Roman Catholic theologian and major contributor to the new thought of the 17th century.......
Philander Chase was a U.S. clergyman and bishop in the Protestant Episcopal Church, educator, and founder of Kenyon......
Charles Chauncy was a great-grandson of the elder Charles Chauncy. He was a Congregationalist minister and one......
Charles Chauncy was an American clergyman and the second president of Harvard College, described by Cotton Mather......
Martin Chemnitz was a leading German theologian who was known, with reference to Martin Luther, as “the second......
Charles Edward Cheney was a controversial American clergyman who helped found the Reformed Episcopal Church. Cheney......
G.K. Chesterton was an English critic and author of verse, essays, novels, and short stories, known also for his......
Jules Chevalier was a priest, author, and founder of the Missionarii Sacratissimi Cordis Jesu (Missionaries of......
Jean-Louis Lefebvre de Cheverus was the first Roman Catholic bishop of Boston. He was made assistant, then pastor,......
John Chilembwe was a Western-educated Nyasaland missionary who led an abortive, largely symbolic, uprising against......
David Yonggi Cho was a Korean religious leader and Christian evangelist who founded (1958) the Yoido Full Gospel......
Michael Choniates was a Byzantine humanist scholar and archbishop of Athens whose extensive Classical literary......
Christodoulos was the archbishop of Athens and All Greece and head of the Orthodox Church of Greece (1998–2008),......
Christopher was an antipope from 903 to 904. Once a cardinal, he appears in many lists of the popes (including......
Saint Christopher ; Western feast day July 25; Eastern feast day May 9) was a legendary martyr of the early church.......
St. John Chrysostom ; Western feast day September 13; Eastern feast day November 13) was an early Church Father,......
Chu Ki-Chol was a Korean Presbyterian minister who suffered martyrdom because of his opposition to Japanese demands......
Thomas Chubb was a self-taught English philosopher and proponent of Deism, regarded by Voltaire as one of the most......
Saint Chŏng Yak-jong ; canonized 1984) was one of the most eminent leaders in the early propagation of Roman Catholicism......
Ch’ang-ch’un was a Taoist monk and alchemist who journeyed from China across the heartland of Asia to visit Genghis......
Saint Ciaran of Clonmacnoise ; feast day September 9) was an abbot who was one of the most illustrious founders......
St. Clare of Assisi ; canonized 1255; feast day August 11) was an abbess and founder of the Poor Clares (Clarissines).......
James Freeman Clarke was a Unitarian minister, theologian, and author whose influence helped elect Grover Cleveland......
Mary Frances Clarke was an Irish-born religious leader and educator, a founder of the Sisters of Charity of the......
Samuel Clarke was a theologian, philosopher, and exponent of Newtonian physics, remembered for his influence on......
Johann Clauberg was a philosopher and theologian who became the foremost German proponent of the thought of the......
Clement (VII) was the first antipope (1378–94) of the Western (Great) Schism that troubled the Roman Catholic church......
Clement (VIII) was an antipope from 1423 to 1429. Sánchez was chosen to succeed Antipope Benedict XIII. Refusing......
Clement (III) was an antipope from 1080 to 1100. Of noble birth, Guibert served at the German court (c. 1054–55)......
St. Clement I ; feast day November 23) was the first Apostolic Father, fourth pope from 88 to 97 or from 92 to......
St. Clement of Alexandria ; Western feast day November 23; Eastern feast day November 24) was a Christian Apologist,......
St. Margaret Clitherow ; canonized 1970; feast days March 25 and October 25) was one of the Forty Martyrs of England......
Giulio Clovio was an Italian miniature painter and priest. Clovio is said to have studied at Rome under Giulio......
Johannes Cocceius was a Dutch theologian of the Reformed Church, biblical scholar, prolific writer, and a leading......
Johannes Cochlaeus was a German Humanist and a leading Roman Catholic opponent of Martin Luther. Educated at the......
R.H. Codrington was an Anglican priest and early anthropologist who made the first systematic study of Melanesian......
Henry Sloane Coffin was an American clergyman, author, and educator who led in the movement for liberal evangelicalism......
Donald, Baron Coggan was an Anglican archbishop of Canterbury from 1974 to 1980, theologian, educator, and the......
André Coindre was the founder of the Fratres a Sacratissimo Corde Iesu (Brothers of the Sacred Heart), a Roman......
Thomas Coke was an English clergyman, the first bishop of the Methodist Church, founder of its missions, and friend......
John Colenso was a controversial liberal Anglican bishop of Natal. He made numerous converts among the Zulus, who......
St. Colette ; canonized 1807; feast day March 6) was a Franciscan abbess, reformer of the Poor Clares and founder......
Arthur Collier was an idealist philosopher and theologian remembered for his concept of human knowledge. Collier......
Jeremy Collier was an English bishop and leader of the Nonjurors (clergy who refused to take the oaths of allegiance......
Anthony Collins was a prolific and provocative English Deist and freethinker and friend of the philosopher John......
Saint Colman of Lindisfarne ; feast day, Scottish diocese of Argyll and the Isles February 18, elsewhere August......
St. Columba ; feast day June 9) is an Irish saint who is credited with having had a main role in the conversion......
Saint Columban ; feast day November 23) was an abbot and writer, one of the greatest missionaries of the Celtic......
Commodianus was a Christian Latin poet, perhaps of African origin. His Carmen apologeticum (“Song with Narrative”)......
Yves Congar was a French Dominican priest who was widely recognized in his lifetime as one of the most important......
Cornelia Connelly was a Roman Catholic abbess who founded the Society of the Holy Child Jesus and became the subject......
Ercole Consalvi was an Italian cardinal and statesman, who played the leading role in Vatican politics during the......
Benjamin Constant was a Franco-Swiss novelist and political writer, the author of Adolphe, a forerunner of the......
Constantine (II) was an antipope from 767 to 768. He was a soldier and—through the support of his brother Toto,......
Constantine I was the first Roman emperor to profess Christianity. He not only initiated the evolution of the empire......
Constantine-Silvanus was the probable founder of the Middle Eastern sect of Paulicians, a group of Christian dualists.......
Gasparo Contarini was a Venetian Humanist scholar, theologian, diplomat, and Roman Catholic cardinal (1535–42).......
John M. Cooper was a U.S. Roman Catholic priest, ethnologist, and sociologist, who specialized in studies of the......
William of Corbeil was the archbishop of Canterbury from 1123 to 1136. Educated at Laon, he entered the order of......
Richard Corbet was a bishop of Oxford and Norwich and one of the most fashionable minor Caroline poets. His memory......
Moses ben Jacob Cordovero was a Galilean rabbi who organized and codified the Zoharistic Kabbala. He was the teacher......
Elena Cornaro was an Italian savant who was the first woman to receive a degree from a university. Cornaro’s father,......
St. Cornelius ; feast day September 16) was the pope from 251 to 253. Cornelius was a Roman priest who was elected......
John Cosin was an Anglican bishop of Durham, theologian, and liturgist whose scholarly promotion of traditional......
Saints Cosmas and Damian were martyrs and patron saints of physicians. They were brothers, perhaps twins, but little......
Charles E. Coughlin was a U.S. Roman Catholic “radio priest” who in the 1930s developed one of the first deeply......
Antoine Court was a minister and itinerant preacher in the Reformed church who restored Protestantism to France......
William Courtenay was the archbishop of Canterbury, leader of the English church and moderating influence in the......
Miles Coverdale was the bishop of Exeter, Eng., who translated (rather freely; he was inexpert in Latin and Greek)......
Richard Cox was an Anglican bishop of Ely and a leading advocate in England of the Protestant Reformation. Appointed......
Thomas Cranmer was the first Protestant archbishop of Canterbury (1533–56), adviser to the English kings Henry......
Ḥasdai ben Abraham Crescas was a Spanish philosopher, Talmudic scholar, and critic of the Aristotelian rationalist......
Saints Crispin and Crispinian, (both b. traditionally Rome—d. c. 286, possibly Soissons, Fr.; feast day October......
Miron Cristea was the first patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, who worked for unity in church and state.......
John Dominic Crossan is an Irish-born American theologian and former Roman Catholic priest best known for his association......
Jean-Pierre de Crousaz was a Swiss theologian, philosopher, and controversialist whose greatest importance lies......
Samuel Crowther was the first African to be ordained by the Church Missionary Society, who was in 1864 consecrated......
Alexander Crummell was an American scholar and Episcopalian minister, founder of the American Negro Academy (1897),......
Ralph Cudworth was an English theologian and philosopher of ethics who became the leading systematic exponent of......
Paul Cullen was the archbishop of Dublin who became the first Irish cardinal. Educated at the Quaker School, Carlow,......
George David Cummins was a dissident American clergyman who founded and became the first bishop of the Reformed......
Saint Cunibert ; feast day November 12) was a prelate, bishop of Cologne and chief minister of King Sigebert III......
Saint Cuthbert ; feast day March 20) was the bishop of the great Benedictine abbey of Lindisfarne (or Holy Island),......
Demetrius Cydones was a Byzantine humanist scholar, statesman, and theologian who introduced the study of the Greek......
Prochorus Cydones was an Eastern Orthodox monk, theologian, and linguist who, by his advocacy of Western Aristotelian......
Saint Cyprian ; feast day September 16) was the metropolitan of Moscow in 1381–82 and 1390–1406. Educated in Greece,......
St. Cyprian was an early Christian theologian and bishop of Carthage who led the Christians of North Africa during......
St. Cyril of Alexandria ; Western feast day June 27; Eastern feast day June 9) was a Christian theologian and bishop......
Saint Cyril of Jerusalem ; feast day March 18) was a bishop of Jerusalem and doctor of the church who fostered......
Hélder Pessoa Câmara was a Roman Catholic prelate whose progressive views on social questions brought him into......
Daigak Guksa was a Korean Buddhist priest who founded the Ch’ŏnt’ae sect of Buddhism. A son of the Koryŏ king Munjong,......
Daimbert was the first archbishop of Pisa, Italy, who, as patriarch of Jerusalem, played a major role in the First......
14th Dalai Lama is the title of the Tibetan Buddhist monk Tenzin Gyatso, the first Dalai Lama to become a global......
Karl Theodor von Dalberg archbishop of Mainz and arch-chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire, primate of Germany,......
Mary Daly was an American theologian, philosopher, and ethicist who pioneered radical feminist theology. Daly was......
Damaskinos was the archbishop of Athens and regent of Greece during the civil war of 1944–46, under whose regency......
St. Damasus I ; feast day December 11) was the pope from October 1, 366, to December 11, 384. During his rule the......
St. Damien of Molokai ; canonized October 11, 2009; feast day May 10) was a Belgian priest who devoted his life......
Frei Damião was an Italian-born Brazilian Roman Catholic monk. He became a Capuchin friar at age 16 and later studied......