List of People From The Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area - Religion

Religion

  • Benjamin W. Arnett – (Fayette) lifelong theologian, first African-American that won a majority white district (assemblyman for Ohio)
  • Joseph Baldwin – (Lawrence) father of the "Normal School"
  • Robert Baird – (Fayette)
  • Cardinal Daniel DiNardo - Archbishop of Galveston-Houston
  • Thomas Dolinay – (Fayette)
  • Hutton Gibson – (Westmoreland) Father of actor Mel Gibson
  • Kersey Graves – (Fayette) Atheist and philosopher, mentioned in the film the DaVinci Code
  • Charles Hartshorne – (Armstrong)
  • Charles William Kerr – (Butler) leader in Race relations and quelled the Tulsa Race Riots
  • Joseph R. Lamonde – (Allegheny)
  • Countess Leon – (Beaver) Rappitte Leader
  • Cardinal Adam Maida - (West Moreland) Emeritus Archbishop of Detroit
  • Bernhard Müller – (Beaver)
  • Madalyn Murray O'Hair – founder of American Atheists
  • Charles D. Provan - (Washington)
  • Victor J. Pospishil – (Armstrong)
  • George Rapp – Founder of the religious sect called Harmonists
  • Charles Taze Russell – founder of Jehovah's Witnesses
  • R. C. Sproul – theologian
  • Thomas J. Tobin - (Allegheny) - Auxiliary Bishop of Pittsburgh, Bishop of Youngstown OH, and current Bishop of Providence RI
  • Cardinal Donald Wuerl – eleventh Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, current Archbishop of Washington
  • David Zubik – twelfth and current Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh

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