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Born September 20, 1900 • Haarlem • Netherlands
Died July 4, 1985 (aged 84) • Geneva • Switzerland
Michael Ramsey, Baron Ramsey of Canterbury
archbishop of Canterbury
Jacobus Arminius
Dutch theologian
Franciscus Gomarus
Franciscus Gomarus
Dutch theologian
Karl Barth
Karl Barth
Swiss theologian
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
German theologian
Yves Congar
French priest
Martin Niemöller
Martin Niemöller
German theologian and pastor
Isidore Of Kiev
Greek Orthodox patriarch
Emil Brunner
Swiss theologian
Demetrius Cydones
Byzantine scholar and statesman
Schaff, engraving by J.J. Cade
Philip Schaff
American theologian
Bessarion
Byzantine theologian
Metrophanes Kritopoulos
Greek patriarch and theologian
Eugene Carson Blake
American minister
George Bell, c. 1944
George Kennedy Allen Bell
British clergyman
Franz Xaver von Baader
German theologian
Daniel Ernst Jablonski
German theologian
Desiderius Erasmus
Erasmus
Dutch humanist
Johannes Cocceius
German theologian
Thomas à Kempis
clergyman