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| x George Hugh Niederauer |
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Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco | Roman Catholic Church | Feb 15, 2006 |
George Hugh Niederauer (born June 14, 1936) is an American bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as the Archbishop of San Francisco. By virtue of his office as ordinary of the San Francisco archdiocese, Niederauer is also...
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| x Pope John Paul II |
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Pope | Roman Catholic Church | Oct 16, 1978 |
Pope John Paul II (Polish: Jan Paweł II, Latin: Joannes Paulus PP. II, Italian: Giovanni Paolo II), born Karol Józef Wojtyła (pronounced [ˈkaɾɔl ˈjuzɛv vɔi̯ˈtɨwa] ( listen); 18 May 1920 – 2 April 2005) served as Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic...
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| x Pope Benedict XVI |
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Pope | Roman Catholic Church | Apr 19, 2005 |
Pope Benedict XVI (Latin: Benedictus PP. XVI; Italian: Benedetto XVI; German: Benedikt XVI.; French: Benoît XVI; born Joseph Alois Ratzinger on 16 April 1927) is the 265th and reigning Pope, by virtue of his office of Bishop of Rome, the head of the...
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| x Gurumayi Chidvilasananda |
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Guru | Siddha Yoga |
Swami Chidvilasananda is the monastic name of Malti Shetty (Mumbai, India, June 24, 1955), who is the current guru of the Siddha Yoga lineage (parampara) established by Swami Muktananda.
Malti Shetty was the oldest child of a Mumbai restaurateur; he...
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| x Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche |
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Founder | Siddhartha's Intent |
Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche (born 1961), also known as Khyentse Norbu, is a Bhutanese lama, filmmaker, and writer. His two major films are The Cup (1999) and Travellers and Magicians (2003). He is the author of the book What Makes You Not a...
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Dajian Huìnéng (慧能 or 惠能; Japanese: Daikan Enō; Korean: Hyeneung, 638–713) was a Chinese Chán monastic who is one of the most important figures in the entire tradition. Huineng is the Sixth and Last Patriarch of Chán Buddhism.
He is said to have...
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Daman Hongren (Chinese: 弘忍) (Wade-Giles:Shih Hung-jen; Japanese: Daiman Konin) (601 - 674) was the 5th Chan Chán (Buddhist) Patriarch in the traditional lineage of Chinese Chan. He is said to have received Dharma transmission from Daoxin and passed...
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| x Daisaku Ikeda | President | Soka Gakkai International | 1975 |
Daisaku Ikeda 池田大作 いけだ だいさく (Ikeda Daisaku, January 2, 1928-) is president of Soka Gakkai International (SGI), a Buddhist association which claims 12 million members in 192 countries and territories, and founder of several educational, cultural and...
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| x Tsunesaburo Makiguchi |
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Tsunesaburō Makiguchi (牧口 常三郎, 1870–1944) was Sōka Gakkai's first president. He was born in Kashiwazaki, a small village in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, on June 6, 1871. Adopted by the Makiguchi family, he moved to Hokkaidō, Japan's northernmost...
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| x Josei Toda |
Jōsei Toda (戸田 城聖, February 11, 1900 – April 2, 1958) was second president of Sōka Gakkai. He was an educator, peace activist and President of Soka Gakkai from 1951 to 1958. Like his mentor, Tsunesaburō Makiguchi, he was an innovative educator...
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| x Gordon B. Hinckley |
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Apostle | Sep 30, 1961 |
Gordon Bitner Hinckley (June 23, 1910 – January 27, 2008) was an American religious leader who served as the fifteenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from March 12, 1995 until his death. He was the oldest...
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Jianzhi Sengcan (Chinese: 僧璨) (?-606) (Wade-Giles: Chien-chih Seng-ts'an; Japanese: Kanchi Sosan) is known as the Third Chinese Patriarch of Chán after Bodhidharma and thirtieth Patriarch after Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha. He is considered the Dharma...
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| x Prem Rawat |
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Prem Pal Singh Rawat (Hindi: प्रेम पाल सिंह रावत) (born December 10, 1957), also known as Maharaji and formerly known as Guru Maharaj Ji and Balyogeshwar, teaches a meditation practice he calls Knowledge. At the age of eight, he succeeded his father...
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| x William Laud |
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Archbishop of Canterbury | Church of England | 1633 |
Archbishop William Laud (7 October 1573 – 10 January 1645) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1633 to 1645. One of the High Church Caroline divines, he opposed radical forms of Puritanism. This and his support for King Charles I resulted in his...
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| x Shaun McCann | President | North American College of Gnostic Bishops | |||
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| x Stephan A. Hoeller | Bishop | Ecclesia Gnostica |
Stephan A. Hoeller, (1931 - ) is a writer, scholar and religious leader. Born in Budapest, Hungary he received a Ph.D. in philosophy with a minor in the philosophy of religion from the University of Innsbruck in Austria.
Richard, Duc de Palatine...
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| x Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama |
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Dalai Lama | Nov 17, 1950 |
Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso (born Lhamo Döndrub) (Tibetan: ལྷ་མོ་དོན་འགྲུབ་; Wylie: Lha-mo Don-'grub; Chinese: 拉莫顿珠) (born 6 July 1935 in Taktser, Amdo, northeastern Tibet, then recently incorporated into Qinghai) is the 14th...
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| x Gendun Gyatso, 2nd Dalai Lama |
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Dalai Lama |
Gendun Gyatso Palzangpo (Wylie: dge 'dun rgya mtsho), also Gendun Gyatso ("Sublimely Glorious Ocean of Spiritual Aspirants", layname: Yonten Phuntsok) (1475–1542) was the second Dalai Lama.
He was born near Shigatse at Tanak, in the Tsang region of...
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| x Sonam Gyatso, 3rd Dalai Lama |
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Dalai Lama |
Sonam Gyatso (Tibetan: བསོད་ནམས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་; Wylie: bsod nams rgya mtsho; ZWPY: Soinam Gyaco) (1543–1588) was the first officially recognized Dalai Lama, although the title was retrospectively given to his two predecessors.
He was born near Lhasa in...
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| x Yonten Gyatso, 4th Dalai Lama |
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Dalai Lama |
Yonten Gyatso or Yon-tan-rgya-mtsho (1589–1617) was the 4th Dalai Lama, born in Mongolia on the 30th day of the 12th month of the Earth-Ox year of the Tibetan calendar. (but other sources say he was born in the 1st month of the Earth Ox Year). As...
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| x Lozang Gyatso, 5th Dalai Lama |
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Dalai Lama |
Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso, the Great Fifth Dalai Lama (1617–1682), was a political and religious leader in seventeenth-century Tibet. Ngawang Lozang Gyatso was the ordination name he had received from Panchen Lozang Chökyi Gyeltsen who was responsible...
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| x Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama |
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Dalai Lama |
Tsangyang Gyatso (Tibetan: ཚངས་དབྱངས་རྒྱ་མཚོ; Wylie: tshang dbyangs rgya mtsho) (1 March 1683 – 15 November 1706) was the sixth Dalai Lama. He was a Monpa by ethnicity and was born at Urgelling Monastery, 5 km from Tawang, and not far from the large...
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| x Kelzang Gyatso, 7th Dalai Lama |
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Dalai Lama |
Kelzang Gyatso (Wylie: bskal bzang rgya mtsho) (1708–1757), also spelled Kelsang Gyatso and Kezang Gyatso, was the 7th Dalai Lama of Tibet.
Kelzang Gyatso was born in Lithang of Eastern Tibet, in the present-day Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture...
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| x Jamphel Gyatso, 8th Dalai Lama |
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Dalai Lama |
Jamphel Gyatso (1758–1804) was the 8th Dalai Lama of Tibet.
Born in 1758 at Lhari Gang (Tob-rgyal Lha-ri Gang) in the Upper Ü-Tsang region of southwestern Tibet his father, Sonam Dhargye, and mother, Phuntsok Wangmo, were originally from Kham. They...
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| x Lungtok Gyatso, 9th Dalai Lama |
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Dalai Lama |
Lungtok Gyatso (1805–1815), also spelled Lungtog Gyatso and Luntok Gyatso, was the 9th Dalai Lama of Tibet.
Lungtok Gyatso was born in 1805 near Choekor Monastery in Dan Chokhor, a small village in the historical region of Kham to Tenzin Choekyong...
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| x Tsultrim Gyatso, 10th Dalai Lama |
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Dalai Lama |
Tsultrim Gyatso (29 March 1816 – 1837) was the 10th Dalai Lama of Tibet.
Born to a modest family in Chamdo (eastern Tibet), he was recognised as the reincarnation of Lungtok Gyatso, the 9th Dalai Lama, in 1820. At the time his family did not even...
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| x Khedrup Gyatso, 11th Dalai Lama |
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Dalai Lama |
Khedrup Gyatso (1 November 1838 – 31 January 1856) was the 11th Dalai Lama of Tibet.
He was recognised as the Eleventh Dalai Lama in 1840, having come from the same village as Kelzang Gyatso, the seventh Dalai Lama, had in 1708. In 1841 the seventh...
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| x Trinley Gyatso, 12th Dalai Lama |
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Dalai Lama |
Trinley Gyatso (26 January 1857 – 25 April 1875), also spelled Trinle Gyatso and Thinle Gyatso, was the 12th Dalai Lama of Tibet. He is sometimes referred to by the name Je-tsun Nga-wang Lo-zang Ten-pai Gyal-tsen Khyen-rab Trin-ley Gya-tso Pal-zang...
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| x Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama |
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Dalai Lama |
Thubten Gyatso (12 February 1876 – 17 December 1933) was the 13th Dalai Lama of Tibet.
During 1878 he was recognized as the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama. He was escorted to Lhasa and given his pre-novice vows by the Panchen Lama, Tenpai Wangchuk,...
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| x Barry Black | Chaplain of the United States Senate | 2003 |
Barry C. Black is the 62nd Chaplain of the United States Senate. He was elected to this position on June 27, 2003, becoming the first African-American, the first Seventh-day Adventist, and the first military chaplain to hold the office of chaplain...
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| x Wintley Phipps |
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Minister of religion |
Wintley Augustus Phipps (born January 7, 1955) was born in Trinidad and Tobago. Phipps is an ordained Seventh-day Adventist minister, world-renowned vocal artist, and innovative initiator of special projects such as the [US Dream Academy]. He also...
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| x Eric Yoffie | President | Union for Reform Judaism |
Eric H. Yoffie is a Reform rabbi, and president of the Union for Reform Judaism the congregational arm of the Reform movement in North America.
Yoffie has remained the unchallenged head of American Judaism’s largest denomination since 1996 due to...
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| x Claude Montefiore | World Union for Progressive Judaism |
Claude Joseph Goldsmid Montefiore (1858 - 1938) was son of Nathaniel Montefiore, and the great nephew of Sir Moses Montefiore. Some identify him as a significant figure in the contexts of modern Jewish religious thought, Jewish-Christian relations,...
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| x Lily Montagu | World Union for Progressive Judaism |
Lilian or Lily Montagu CBE (22 December 1873 - 22 January 1963) was the first woman to play a major role in Reform Judaism. Although she grew up in an orthodox family, she was influenced by Claude Montefiore, a reform-oriented philanthropist and...
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| x Solomon Freehof | World Union for Progressive Judaism |
Solomon Bennett Freehof (August 8, 1892 – 1990) was a prominent Reform rabbi, posek, and scholar. Rabbi Freehof served as president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis and the World Union for Progressive Judaism. Beginning in 1955, he led...
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| x Leo Baeck |
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World Union for Progressive Judaism |
Leo Baeck (23 May 1873 – 2 November 1956) was a 20th century German-Polish-Jewish Rabbi, scholar, and a leader of Progressive Judaism.
Baeck was born in Lissa (Leszno) (then in the German Province of Posen, now in Poland), the son of Rabbi Samuel...
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| x David Weiss Halivni |
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Union for Traditional Judaism |
Rabbi David Weiss Halivni (Hebrew דוד הלבני) (born 1927) is an American Israeli world-acclaimed scholar in the domain of Jewish Sciences and professor of Talmud, born in Carpathian Ruthenia.
David Weiss was born in the small town Kobyletzka Poliana ...
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Amos is a minor prophet in the Old Testament, and the purported author of the Book of Amos.
The book of Amos records that two years after Amos received the visions contained therein, an earthquake struck the area (1:1). Josephus, the Jewish...
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| x Habakkuk |
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Habakkuk or Havakuk (Hebrew: חֲבַקּוּק, Standard Ḥavaqquq Tiberian Ḥăḇaqqûq) was a prophet in the Hebrew Bible. The etymology of the name of Habakkuk is not clear. The name is possibly related to the Akkadian khabbaququ, the name of a fragrant plant...
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Isaiah (Hebrew: יְשַׁעְיָהוּ, Modern Yəšaʿyáhu Tiberian Yəšaʿăyāhû ; Greek: Ἠσαΐας, Ēsaiās ; Arabic: أشعیاء, Ash'iyā' , Spanish: Isaías ; "Yahweh is mighty"; pronounced /aɪˈzeɪ.ə/ (US), /aɪˈzaɪ.ə/ (UK)) is the main figure in the Biblical Book of...
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| x Jeremiah |
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Jeremiah (Hebrew：יִרְמְיָה, Yirmĭyahu, meaning “Yahweh exalts”, in English pronounced /dʒɛrɨˈmaɪ.ə/) was one of the prophets of the Hebrew Bible. His writings are put together in the Book of Jeremiah and traditionally, authorship of the Book of...
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| x Joel |
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Joel (Hebrew: יואל) was a prophet of ancient Israel, the second of the twelve minor prophets and the author of the Book of Joel.
He is mentioned by name only once in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, in the introduction to his own brief book, as the...
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Micah the titular prophet of the Book of Micah, also called "The Morasthite". He is not the same as another prophet, Micaiah son of Imlah. He is counted among the minor prophets in the Tanakh (Old Testament).
Micah prophesied throughout the reigns...
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Obadiah is a Biblical theophorical name, meaning "servant of Yahweh" or "worshipper of Yahweh." It is cognate to the Arabic name ‘Abdullah. The form of his name used in the Septuagint is Obdios; in Latin it is Abdias.
The prophet named Obadiah is...
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Zechariah was a person in the Hebrew Bible (Jewish Tanakh and Christian Old Testament). He was the author of the Book of Zechariah, the eleventh of the twelve minor prophets.
The name Zechariah is derived from Hebrew: זְכַרְיָה, Modern Zəḫarya...
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| x Zephaniah |
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Zephaniah or Tzfanya (Hebrew: צְפַנְיָה, Modern Ẓəfanya Tiberian Ṣəp̄anyāh ; "Concealed of/is Lord") is the name of several people in the Bible Old Testament and Jewish Tanakh. He is also called Sophonias as in the New Catholic Encyclopaedia and in...
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| x Abraham |
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Abraham (Hebrew: אַבְרָהָם, Modern Avraham Tiberian ʾAḇrāhām, Arabic: إبراهيم, Ibrāhīm, ʾAbrəham) is the founding patriarch of the Israelites, Ishmaelites, Midianites and Edomite peoples, as described in the book of Genesis. He is widely regarded...
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Isaac or Ishak (Hebrew: יִצְחָק, Modern Yiẓḥaq Tiberian Yiṣḥāq, "he will laugh"; Yiddish: יִצְחָק, Yitzchok; Greek: Ισαάκ; Latin: Isaac; Arabic: إسحٰق or إسحاق ʾIsḥāq; pronounced /ˈaɪzek/)) was the only child of Abraham and Sarah, and the father of...
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Jacob (Hebrew: יַעֲקֹב, Standard Yaʿaqov; Septuagint Greek: Ἰακώβ; "heel" or "leg-puller"), also known as Israel (Hebrew: יִשְׂרָאֵל, Standard Yisraʾel, Isrāʾīl; Septuagint Greek: Ἰσραήλ; "struggler with God"; pronounced /ˈdʒeɪkəb/), was the third...
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Moses (Arabic موسى Musa ) (1526BC - 1406BC)is considered a prophet in Islam(Quran 20:13). According to the Muslim creed, all Muslims must have faith in all Prophets and Messengers mentioned in the Qur'an, which includes Moses. Moses is often...
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Harun (circa 1439 BC - 1317 BC?), (Arabic: هارون) was a prophet biblical times mentioned in the Qur'an. In the Bible he is known as Aaron (Aharōn in Hebrew). It is believed that Haroon lived for 122 years.
Haroon was the younger brother of Musa,...
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St. Joshua (Hebrew: יְהוֹשֻׁעַ Yahoshua, Arabic: يشع بن نون Yusha‘ ibn Nūn), according to the Hebrew Bible, was an Israelite leader who succeeded Moses. His story is told chiefly in the books Exodus, Numbers and Joshua. He was one of the twelve...
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| x Phinehas, son of Eleazar |
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Phinehas or Pinhas (Hebrew: פִּינְחָס, Modern Pinəḥas Tiberian Pînəħās) was the grandson of Aaron, and son of Eleazar the high priest (Exodus 6:25), who distinguished himself as a youth at Shittim by his zeal against the Heresy of Peor: the...
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| x Ezekiel |
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According to religious texts, Ezekiel ((Hebrew: יְחֶזְקֵאל, Yehezkel, IPA: [jəħ.ezˈqel]), "God will strengthen", from חזק, hazak, [ħa'zaq], literally "to fasten upon", figuratively "strong", and אל, el, [ʔel], literally "strength", figuratively ...
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| x Ahijah HaShiloni |
According to the biblical Book of 1 Kings, Ahijah the Shilonite (Hebrew: אחיה השילוני, Ahiya Hashiloni) was a prophet of Shiloh (1 Kings 11:29; 14:2) in the days of Rehoboam.
The Bible records two of his prophecies; 1 Kings 11:31-39, announcing the...
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Nathan the Prophet (fl. c. 1000 BC) was a court prophet who lived in the time of King David and Queen Bathsheba. He came to David to reprimand him over his committing adultery with Bathsheba while she was the wife of Uriah the Hittite whose death...
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| x Hosea |
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Hosea (Hebrew: הוֹשֵׁעַ, Modern Hošeaʿ Tiberian Hôšēăʿ ; "Salvation of/is the Lord", Greek Ὠσηέ = Ōsēe) was the son of Beeri and a prophet in Israel in the 8th century BC. He is one of the Twelve Prophets of the Jewish Hebrew Bible, also known as...
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| x Samuel |
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Samuel (Hebrew: שְׁמוּאֵל, Standard Šəmuʼel Tiberian Šəmûʼēl) is a leader of ancient Israel in the Book(s) of Samuel in the Hebrew Bible.
His status, as viewed by rabbinical literature, is that he was the last of the Hebrew Judges and the first of...
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| x Levi Ibn Chaviv | Chief Rabbi | 1525 |
Rabbi Levi Ibn Habib was rabbi of Jerusalem; born at Zamora, Spain, about 1480; died at Jerusalem about 1545.
Under King Manuel of Portugal, and when about seventeen, he was compelled to submit to baptism, but at the first opportunity fled to...
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| x Hayyim ben Joseph Vital | Chief Rabbi |
Hayyim ben Joseph Vital (Calabria, 1543 – Damascus, 23 April 1620) was a foremost exponent of Kabbalah.
Born in Calabria, Italy, as a young boy, Hayyim Vital was educated by the scholar, Rabbi Moses Alshech. Other than that, most of his early life...
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