Yale Religious Figures
by Sylviastel | created - 04 Sep 2014 | updated - 05 Sep 2014 | PublicJonathan Edwards: pastor, theologian.
Asa Thurston (BA 1816) one of the first Christian missionaries to Hawaii.
Andrew Leete Stone (BA 1836) minister, author.
Hiram Bingham II (BA 1853) missionary to Hawaii & Gilbert Islands.
Thomas Frederick Davies Sr. (1853, 1893) 3rd bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan from 1889 to 1905.
Ashley Day Leavitt (BA 1900) minister of Harvard Congregational Church in Brookline, MA.
William Ragsdale Cannon (BD 1940; Ph.D. 1942) professor & dean of Candler School of Theology at Emory University, United Methodist Church Bishop.
Aaron Mackler (BA 1980) Rabbi in the Conservative movement.
James W. C. Pennington: African American orator, minister, abolitionist, first African American man to attended classes at Yale; he audited classes at Divinity School from 1834 to 1839.
Anson Phelps Stokes III (BA 1927) 11th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of MA.
Henry Boone Porter; liturgist, journalist, clergyman of the Episcopal Church, editor of the Living Church magazine.
John Leith (PH.D. 1949) Presbyterian author, theologian, professor.
Leroy Gilbert; Chaplain of the US Coast Guard.
1. Jeffrey R. Holland
Actor | Somebody to Stand by You
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland was born to Frank and Alice in St George, Utah. He married his wife Patricia in 1963 and have 3 children. He attended Dixie High School and Dixie College in St. George, earning a masters in English and religious education from BYU and a doctorate in philosophy from Yale.
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Ph.D. 1973; former president of Brigham Young University; Apostle of the Church of the Latter Day Saints.
2. Yasir Qadhi
Yasir Qadhi is known for Supernatural Assault (2018) and Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2012).
Ph.D. candidate; Muslim theologian.
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