List of People Known As The Great - Religious Figures

Religious Figures

  • Abraham the Great of Kashkar (ca. 492-586), monk and saint of the Assyrian Church of the East
  • Abraham Kidunaia (died c. 366, hermit, priest, and Christian saint of Mesopotamia
  • Albertus Magnus (1193/1206–1280), medieval German philosopher and theologian
  • Anthony the Great (c. 251–356), early Christian saint of Egypt
  • Babai the Great (c. 551–628), Assyrian church leader
  • Basil of Caesarea (330-379), Greek bishop and theologian
  • Bruno the Great (925–965), Archbishop of Cologne and Duke of Lotharingia (also listed in the previous section)
  • Euthymius the Great (377-473), abbot and Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox saint
  • Gertrude the Great (1256-c. 1302), German Benedictine, mystic, theologian and Roman Catholic saint
  • Pope Gregory I (c. 540-604)
  • Hiyya the Great, 3rd-century rabbi, Palestine
  • Pope John Paul II (1920–2005)
  • Pope Leo I (c. 391 or 400-461)
  • Macarius of Egypt (c. 300-391), Egyptian hermit
  • Pope Nicholas I (c. 800-867)
  • Photius I of Constantinople (c. 810–c. 893), Eastern Orthodox saint and Patriarch of Constantinople
  • William of Maleval (died 1157), founder of the Catholic congregation of Williamites

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