List of Christian pastors in politics
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
Anglican
- John Bani – President and head of state of Vanuatu from 25 March 1999 until 24 March 2004; Anglican priest
- Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley – UK politician; only member of the House of Lords to sit as a member of the Green Party; Anglican priest
- Walter Lini – founding Prime Minister of Vanuatu (succeeded by Bani); Anglican priest
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
- 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
- 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
- Martin Luther King – civil rights activist and Baptist minister
- Ron Lewis – retiring Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky since 1994; Baptist minister
- Fred Phelps – anti-gay activist, attorney, Democratic politician, and Baptist minister
- Pat Robertson – Republican supporter, former United States presidential nomination candidate, and former Baptist pastor
Roman Catholicism
- Barthélemy Boganda
- Jean-Bertrand Aristide – former President of Haiti; former Catholic priest
- Ernesto Cardenal – former Minister for Culture for Nicaragua and Catholic priest
- 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
- 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
- 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
Eastern Catholic Churches
- Paul Weyrich – U.S. conservative political activist and commentator, ordained protodeacon in the Melkite Greek Catholic Church
Congregational Church
- Samuel C. Fessenden – U.S. Congressman, pastor
- Washington Gladden – leading American Congregational church pastor leading member of the Progressive Movement, serving for two years as a member of the Columbus, Ohio city council
- Fred Nile – New South Wales Legislative Council (Australia) member and Fellowship of Congregational Churches minister
Disciples of Christ
- James A. Garfield – preacher, teacher, and lawyer from Ohio before becoming a Congressman and later the 20th President of the United States
- Gerald L. K. Smith – founder of the quasi-fascist America First Party; Disciples of Christ minister
- Jim Spainhower – U.S. politician from Missouri and former Disciples of Christ minister
Dutch Reformed Church
- Thomas François Burgers – President of the South African Republic 1871–77; pastor
- Abraham Kuyper – Dutch politician, journalist, statesman and theologian; founded the Anti-Revolutionary Party and was Prime Minister of the Netherlands between 1901 and 1905; Dutch Reformed Church minister
- Daniel François Malan – former Prime Minister of South Africa and minister
Eastern Orthodox Churches
- Boulos Basili (1916-2010) – priest, first priest to enter the Egyptian Assembly in 1971 after winning a free election in his district Shoubra, in Cairo, Egypt; served in the parliament until 1975
- Miron Cristea – first Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church and Prime Minister of Romania
- Damaskinos – Archbishop of Athens and All Greece (primate of the Church of Greece) and Regent of Greece (1944–1946) for the exiled King George II
- Makarios III – archbishop and primate of the autocephalous Cypriot Orthodox Church (1950–1977) and first President of the Republic of Cyprus (1960–1977)
- Fan S. Noli – Albanian Orthodox bishop and politician, who served briefly as prime minister and regent of Albania in 1924
- Feofan Prokopovich – archbishop and statesman in the Russian Empire, elaborated and implemented Peter the Great's reform of the Russian Orthodox Church
Episcopalian
- John Danforth – former United States Ambassador to the United Nations and former Republican United States Senator from Missouri; ordained Episcopal priest
- Wythe Leigh Kinsolving – Episcopal priest, essayist and campaigner for Democratic candidates in 1910s-1930s, and against US participation in World War II in late 1930s through 1941
Evangelist
- 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
- 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]
Evangelical Lutheran
- Lauri Ingman – Archbishop of Turku (1930–1934), Prime Minister of Finland (1918–1919, 1924–1925)
- Dean Johnson – former majority leader of the Minnesota Senate; minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Lutheran
- Ida Auken – Denmark
- Margrete Auken – Denmark
- Kjell Magne Bondevik – Norwegian Lutheran minister and politician; Prime Minister of Norway from 1997 to 2000, and from 2001 to 2005
- Joachim Gauck – President of Germany, serving since 18 March 2012
- Walter H. Moeller – American politician of the Democratic party; entered a Lutheran seminary in 1935 and served as a pastor in the 1940s and after his retirement from politics
Methodist
- Canaan Banana – president of Zimbabwe and Methodist minister
- Henry Augustus Buchtel – American public official and educator, ordained to the Methodist Episcopal ministry and served for a year as a missionary in Bulgaria
- John Bull – American clergyman and physician who represented Missouri in the US Congress in 1833 and 1834
- Emanuel Cleaver – United Methodist pastor and a Democratic politician from the state of Missouri; elected to the United States House of Representatives in November 2004 to represent Missouri's 5th congressional district
- Robert W. Edgar – former Congressman and Methodist pastor
- Robert P. Shuler – Prohibition Party candidate who received the highest vote in any election in US history; Methodist pastor
- Donald Soper, Baron Soper – prominent Methodist minister, socialist and pacifist
- Ted Strickland – Governor of Ohio, briefly a United Methodist pastor
- Silas C. Swallow – U.S. Methodist preacher and prohibitionist politician
- Aaron S. Watkins – Prohibition Party candidate and Methodist minister
- Robert L. Williams – third Governor of Oklahoma and Methodist minister
- Terry Wynn – Methodist local preacher and Member of the European Parliament
Pentecostal
- Marcelo Crivella – senator in the federal government of Brazil
- Stockwell Day – has been credentialed with the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada
- Andrew Evans – South Australian Legislative Council (Family First Party) member and Pentecostal Christian pastor
- Anne McBride – Canadian politician ordained in the Assemblies of God
- Danny Nalliah – President of an Assemblies of God related group, Family First Party candidate
- Judy Turner – New Zealand politician, pastoral and community worker at New Life Churches, New Zealand
Presbyterian
- 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
- John Witherspoon – signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New Jersey; the only active clergyman to sign the Declaration
United Church
- Bill Blaikie – current Deputy Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons; a Member of Parliament since 1979, representing the Winnipeg riding of Elmwood—Transcona and its antecedents as a member of the New Democratic Party; Minister of United Church of Canada
- Lorne Calvert – former premier of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan and current leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition, as leader of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party; ordained minister of United Church of Canada
- Brian Howe – Australian politician, was Deputy Prime Minister in the Labor government of Paul Keating, and minister of Uniting Church in Australia
- Stanley Knowles – Canadian parliamentarian; United Church minister
- Doug Lauchlan – Canadian politician, minister and educator, ordained minister in the United Church of Canada
- David MacDonald – United Church of Canada minister and a former Canadian politician and author
- Doug Martindale – politician in Manitoba, Canada; member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba since 1990, serving as a member of the New Democratic Party; ordained United Church minister
- Davis McCaughey – key architect in the formation of the Uniting Church in Australia; Governor of Victoria 1986–1992
- Keith Seaman – Uniting Church in Australia
- Lloyd Stinson – politician in Manitoba, Canada; leader of that province's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) from 1953 to 1959; ordained United Church minister
- Andrew Young – civil rights activist; former mayor of Atlanta, Georgia; America's first African-American ambassador to the United Nations; United Church of Christ pastor
Other
- Gregorio Aglipay – founded Philippine Independent Church
- Harold Albrecht – Brethren in Christ
- Benjamin W. Arnett – Ohio State Legislature politician and African Methodist Episcopal Church pastor
- Graham Capill – Reformed Churches of New Zealand
- William Irvine – Methodist, then Unitarian
- Donald Malinowski – Polish National Catholic Church
- Kenneth Meshoe – Hope of Glory Tabernacle
- Gordon Moyes – New South Wales Legislative Council (Australia), Christian Democratic Party member, Churches of Christ in Australia minister
- Douglas Nicholls – Churches of Christ in Australia
- Clementa C. Pinckney – African Methodist Episcopal
- Hiram Rhodes Revels – African Methodist Episcopal
- Efraín Ríos Montt – Church of the Word
Unclassified
- Scott Craig – Pastor of Bighorn Canyon Community Church; has represented district 33 in the South Dakota House of Representatives since January 11, 2013
- Reinhold Niebuhr – Christian Realism; in his younger days he was a socialist candidate for New York State Senate
- Wavel Ramkalawan – Seychelles politician and priest
- Tuve Skånberg
- Albert Edward Smith – Communist Party of Canada politician, but considered himself Christian throughout
- William Horace Temple – Christian Socialist
- László Tőkés – Bishop in Reformed Church in Romania and involved in the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania
- Tim Walberg – non-denominational Protestant
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