List of German Americans - Religious

Religious

• Conrad Beissel – religious leader who in 1732 founded the Ephrata Community in Pennsylvania
• August Ernst – former president of Northwestern University and ordained minister
• Raymond Philip Etteldorf – Roman Catholic Archbishop and author
• George J. Geis — Baptist missionary in Kachin State, Burma.
• Barbara Heck – 1768 – founder of the first Methodist church in New York
• Samuel Hirsch – philosopher and rabbi
• Adolf Hoenecke – served as the head of Wisconsin Synod congregations from 1878 – 1908
• Arthur W. Hummel, Sr. – Christian missionary to China and Sinologist
• Johannes Kelpius – Pietist, mystic, musician, and writer, interested in the occult, botany, and astronomy, came to believe with his followers in the "Society of the Woman in the Wilderness"
• Kathryn Kuhlman – 20th Century faith healer and Pentecostal arm of Protestant Christianity
• Barbara Heinemann Landmann – spiritual leader of the Amana Colonies
• Alexander Mack – Germantown, Pennsylvania New World religious leader
• Christian Metz – inspirationalist
• Henry Moeller – Roman Catholic archbishop of Cincinnati
• Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg – Lutheran clergyman
• Richard John Neuhaus – clergyman (first a Lutheran pastor and then a Roman Catholic priest), theologian, and ethicist
• St. John Neumann – Bishop of Philadelphia (1852–60) and the first American bishop to be canonized
• Reinhold Niebuhr – Protestant theologian best known for his work relating the Christian faith to the realities of modern politics and diplomacy.
• George Rapp – founder of the religious sect called Harmonists, Harmonites, Rappites, or the Harmony Society
• George Erik Rupp – educator and theologian, the former President of Rice University and later of Columbia University, and president of the International Rescue Committee
• Theodore Schneider – was the second bishop of the Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
• Francis Xavier Seelos – Roman Catholic martyred priest
• Joseph Stephan – Roman Catholic priest, Union Army chaplain, Indian agent and director of the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions from 1885 to 1901
• Joseph Strub – founder of what is today Duquesne University, which was called the Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost until 1911
• Paul Tillich – Protestant theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher
• C. F. W. Walther – Lutheran clergyman, professor, seminary president, editor, and first president of The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod
• Donald Wuerl – prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
• Count Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf – founded the town of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where his daughter Benigna organized the school which would become Moravian College