List of preachers
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The following is a list of famous preachers.
Contents
Catholic
- Ignatius of Antioch, (35-107) (also claimed by the Eastern Orthodox Church)
- Polycarp (69-155) (also claimed by the Eastern Orthodox Church)
- John Chrysostom, (347-407) (also claimed by the Eastern Orthodox Church)
- John Bromyard, (d.c.1352)
- Jan Huss, (1369-1415) (condemned and executed as a heretic)
- Girolamo Savonarola, (1452-1498)
- John Henry Cardinal Newman, (1801-90), converted from Anglicanism
- Edward J. Flanagan, (1886-1946)
- Charles Coughlin (1891-1975)
- Bishop Fulton Sheen, (1895-1975)
- Pope John Paul II, (1920-2005)
Lutheran
- Martin Luther (1483-1547)
- C.F.W. Walther (1811-1887)
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)
- Ken Klaus, current host of the The Lutheran Hour
- David Benke
Reformed
- Ulrich Zwingli, (1484-1531)
- John Calvin, (1509-1564)
Presbyterian
- John Knox, (1513-1572)
- Billy Sunday (1862-1935)
- Peter Marshall, (1903-1949)
Anglican
- Hugh Latimer, (1470-1555)
- Lancelot Andrewes, (1555-1626)
- John Tillotson, (1630-1694)
Puritan/Congregationalist/Noncomformist
- John Davenport (1597-1670)
- Matthew Henry (1662-1714)
- Cotton Mather (1663-1958)
- Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
Baptist
- Roger Williams, (1603-1684)
- John Bunyan, (1628-1688)
- C. H. Spurgeon, (1834-1892)
- Mordecai Ham, Baptist (d. 1961)
- Billy Graham, (b. 1918)
- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
- Fred Phelps, (b. 1929)
- Moishe Rosen (b. 1932), founder of Jews for Jesus
- Jerry Falwell, (b. 1933)
- R. Albert Mohler, Jr. (b. 1959)
- Richard Rossi, (b. 1963)
- Ivan Collinson, (b. 1944)
- Carl Wilberforce Smethurst, (b. 1975)
Methodist
- John Wesley, (1703-1791)
- George Whitefield, (1714-1770)
- Francis Asbury, (1747-1816]
- Peter Cartwright, (1785-1873)
- Bob Jones, Sr., (1883-1968)
- Carl Stuart Hamblen, (1908-1989)
- William Willimon,
Church of Christ
- Max Lucado, (b. 1955)
Church of God
- Eliseo Soriano, (b. 1947)
Charismatic
- David Wilkerson
- Joyce Meyer, (b. 1943)
Non-denominational
- Dwight Moody (1837-1899)
- John MacArthur (b. 1939)
Messianic
- Zola Levitt (d. 2006)
Preachers noted for secular achievements
- John Danforth (b. 1936), Episcopalian, republican Senator from Missouri.
- Cristóbal Diatristán de Acuña, (1597-1676), Catholic, explorer
- John Donne, (1572-163]), Anglican, poet
- Laurence Sterne,(1713-1759), Anglican, novelist
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803 - 1882), Unitarian, poet
- James Garfield, (1831-1851), Disciples of Christ, U. S. President
- Eric Liddell, (1902-1945), Baptist, Olympian featured in the movie Chariots of Fire
- Hugh Beaumont, (1903-1984), Methodist, Television actor
- Jerry Clower, (1926-1998), Baptist, rural humorist
- David Bauer, (1924 - 1988), Roman Catholic, hockey player
- Fred Rogers, (1928-2003), Presyterian, children's television host
- Della Reese, (b. 1931), non-denomoniational, actress
- Bill Moyers, (b. 1935), Baptist, White House Press Secretary
- Clifton Davis, (b. 1945) Seventh-day Aventist, actor
- George Foreman, (b. 1949), boxer
- Sam Kinison (1953-1992), charismatic, comedian
- Ernie Fletcher, (b. 1956), Baptist (former lay preacher) Govenor of Kentucky
- Reggie White, (1961-2004), Baptist, football player
- Kirk Cameron, (b. 1970), evangelical, actor
See also
List of United States televangelists
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