German religious leaders

Nikolaus Selnecker (or Selneccer) (December 5, 1530 – May 24, 1592) was a German musician and theologian.

Johann Faber (1478 – May 21, 1541) was a Catholic theologian known for his writings opposing the Protestant Reformation and the growing Anabaptist movement.

Adolf Clarenbach (or Klarenbach) (circa 1497 – 28 September 1529), burnt at the stake in Cologne, died as one of the first Protestant martyrs of the Reformation in the Lower Rhine region in Germany.

Paul Melchers (6 January 1813 – 14 December 1895) was a Cardinal and Archbishop of Cologne.

Carl or Karl Hildebrand von Canstein (4 August 1667 – 19 August 1719), Baron or Count of Canstein, was a German aristocrat who founded the Canstein Bible Institute (German: Cansteinsche Bibelanstalt) in Halle, Brandenburg-Prussia, the first modern Bible society.

Johannes Oecolampadius, IPA: [ɔɪkɑːlæmpædiːʌs], or Oekolampad (1482 – 24 November 1531) was a German Reformed theologian religious reformer from the Electorate of the Palatinate.

Saint Boniface (Latin: Bonifatius) (c. 675 – 5 June 754 AD), born Winfrid, Wynfrith, or Wynfryth in the kingdom of Wessex in Anglo-Saxon England, was a leading figure in the Anglo-Saxon mission to the Germanic parts of the Frankish Empire during the 8th century.

Saint Kilian, also spelled Killian (or alternatively Irish: Cillian), was an Irish missionary bishop and the Apostle of Franconia (nowadays the northern part of Bavaria), where he began his labours towards the end of the 7th century.

Saint Bruno of Querfurt (c. 974 – February 14, 1009 AD), also known as Brun and Boniface, is a sainted missionary bishop and martyr, who was beheaded near the border of Kievan Rus and Lithuania while trying to spread Christianity in Eastern Europe.

Jakob Andreae (March 25, 1528 – January 7, 1590) was a significant German Lutheran theologian, involved in the drafting of major documents.

Peter Canisius, S.

Rainald of Dassel (c. 1120 – 14 August 1167 near Rome) was archbishop of Cologne from 1159 to 1167 and archchancellor of Italy.

Martin Chemnitz (November 9, 1522 – April 8, 1586) was an eminent second-generation German Lutheran theologian, reformer, churchman, and confessor.

Sebastian Franck (20 January 1499 – c. 1543) was a 16th-century German freethinker, humanist, and radical reformer.

Konrad von Marburg (sometimes anglicised as Conrad of Marburg) (born 1180 – died 30 July 1233) was a medieval, German priest and nobleman.

Abraham Calovius (also Abraham Calov or Abraham Kalau; 16 April 1612 – 25 February 1686) was a Lutheran theologian, and was one of the champions of Lutheran orthodoxy in the 17th century.

Melchior, Freiherr von Diepenbrock (born 6 January 1798, at Bocholt in Westphalia; d. at the castle of Johannesberg in Jauernig, 20 January 1853) was a German Catholic Prince-Bishop of Breslau and Cardinal.

Johannes von Geissel (5 February 1796 – 8 September 1864) was a German Catholic Archbishop of Cologne and Cardinal from the Electorate of the Palatinate.

Philipp Krementz (1 December 1819 – 6 May 1899) was a German Catholic bishop, created Cardinal in 1893.

Wolfgang Fabricius Capito (or Köpfel) (c. 1478 – November 1541) was a German religious reformer.

Adalbert I von Saarbrücken (died 23 June 1137), Archbishop of Mainz from 1111 until his death, played a key role in opposing Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor, and in securing the election of Lothar III, Holy Roman Emperor.

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Hildegard of Bingen, O.

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Johann Chrysanth "Beda" Weber (26 October 1798 – 28 February 1859) was a German Benedictine professor, author, and member of the Frankfurt Parliament.

Anton Praetorius (1560 – 6 December 1613) was a German Calvinist pastor who spoke out against the persecution of witches (witchhunts, witchcraft trials) and against torture.

Hermann von Salza (or Hermann of Salza) (c. 1165 – March 20, 1239) was the fourth Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, serving from 1210 to 1239.

Paul Speratus (13 December 1484 – 12 August 1551) was a Catholic priest who became a Protestant preacher and hymn-writer.

Saint Willigis (c. 940 – 23 February 1011) was Archbishop of Mainz from 975 until his death as well as archchancellor of the Holy Roman Empire.

Ambrosius Blarer (sometimes Ambrosius Blaurer) (April 4, 1492 – December 6, 1564) was an influential reformer in southern Germany and north-eastern Switzerland.

Gottfried Daniel Krummacher (1 April 1774 in Tecklenburg – 30 January 1837 in Elberfeld) was a German Reformed clergyman.

Johann Wilhelm Ebel (1784–1861) was a German Lutheran clergyman and teacher.

Saint John of Capistrano (Italian: San Giovanni da Capestrano, Hungarian: Kapisztrán János, Polish: Jan Kapistran, Serbian: Јован Капистран, Jovan Kapistran) (24 June 1386 – 23 October 1456) was a Franciscan friar and Catholic priest from the Italian town of Capestrano, Abruzzo.

Johann Peter Lange (German: [ˈlaŋə]; 10 April 1802 in Sonneborn (now a part of Wuppertal) – 9 July 1884), was a German Calvinist theologian of peasant origin.

Andreas Musculus (also Andreas Meusel; 29 November 1514 – 29 September 1581) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Blessed Meinwerk (c. 975 – 5 June 1036) was the Bishop of Paderborn from 1009 until his death.

Paul Johannes Tillich (August 20, 1886 – October 22, 1965) was a German American Christian existentialist philosopher and Lutheran theologian who is widely regarded as one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century.

Johann Maier von Eck (13 November 1486 – 13 February 1543) was a German Scholastic theologian and defender of Catholicism during the Protestant Reformation.

Andreas Rudolph Bodenstein von Karlstadt (1486 – 24 December 1541), better known as Andreas Karlstadt or Andreas Carlstadt or Karolostadt, was a German Christian theologian during the Protestant Reformation.

Adolph Kolping (December 8, 1813 in Kerpen — December 4, 1865 in Cologne) was a German Catholic priest, who has been beatified by the Catholic Church.