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1935 religious leaders - Events of 1936 - 1937 religious leaders - Religious leaders by year

Christianity

Catholic

• Roman Catholic Church-Pope Pius XI (1922-February 1939)

Catholic not in communion with Rome

• Polish National Catholic Church - First Prime Bishop Franciszek Hodur: Founder presided as Prime Bishop from (1924-1946)

Eastern Orthodoxy

• Patriarch of Constantinople Benjamin I (1936-1946)
• Serbian Orthodox Church - Patriarch Varnava Rosic (1930-1937)

Oriental orthodoxy

• Coptic Christianity-Pope Youanes XIX of Alexandria(1929–1942)
• Assyrian Church of the East-Assyrian Patriarch in Qochanis Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII (1920-1975)

Protestant and offshoots

• Church of England - Archbishop of Canterbury Cosmo Lang (1928-1942)
• Church of Sweden - Archbishop of Uppsala - Erling Eidem(1931–1950)
• Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod - President John W. Behnken (1935 - 1962)
• The Salvation Army - General Evangeline Booth (1934-1939)
• New Apostolic Church - Johann Gottfried Bischoff, Chief Apostle (1930-1960)

Other Christian

• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) - Heber J. Grant, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1918 - 1945)
• Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Now called Community of Christ) - Frederick Madison Smith (1914–1946)

Judaism

• Chief rabbi of Palestine - Abraham Isaac Kook (1921–1935)
• Chief rabbi of Palestine, Sephardi - Jacob Meir (1921-1939)
• Chief rabbi of Ireland - Ashkenazi - Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog (1919-1936)
• Chief rabbi of the British Empire - Joseph H. Hertz (1913 till his death in January 14, 1946)

Islam and its offshoots

Ismaili

• Nizari - Aga Khan III (1885-1957)
• Dawoodi Bohras - Syedna Taher Saifuddin (1915-1965)

Ahmadiyya

• Ahmadiyya Muslim Community-Khalifatul Masih II Hazrat Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmood Ahmad (1914-1965)
• Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement-Maulana Muhammad Ali(Amir 1914-1951)