List of Swiss People - Religion

Religion

See also: List of Swiss cardinals
  • John Calvin (10 July 1509 – 27 May 1564) Protestant Reformer, founder of Calvinism or reformed theology.
  • Jakob Abbadie (1654–1727), Protestant preacher
  • Gilberto Agustoni (born 1922), cardinal
  • Jacob Amman (17th century)
  • Karl Barth (1886–1968), theologian
  • Theodore Beza (1519–1605), reformer in Geneva
  • Heinrich Bullinger (1504–1575), reformer in Zurich
  • Georges Cottier (born 1922), cardinal, theologian
  • Niklaus Manuel Deutsch (1484–1530) painter, dramatician, politician and reformer in Berne
  • Johann Augustanus Faber (c.1470–c.1530), theologian and historian
  • William Farel (1489–1565), reformer in Geneva
  • Theodosius Florentini (1808–1865)
  • Gaston Frommel (1862–1906)
  • Berchtold Haller (1492–1536), reformer in Berne
  • Karl Rudolf Hagenbach (1801–1874)
  • Johann Jakob Herzog (1805–1882)
  • Hans Küng (born 1928), theologian
  • Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801), pastor and physiognomist
  • Oswald Myconius (1488–1552)
  • Johannes Oecolampadius (1482–1531), reformer in Basel
  • Frère Roger (1915–2005), founder of Taizé
  • Philip Schaff (1819–1893)
  • Henri Schwery (born 1932), cardinal, former Bishop of Sion
  • Guichard Tavelli (died 1375), Bishop of Sion
  • Clemens Thoma (1932–2011)
  • Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet (1797–1847), theologian and critic
  • Pierre Viret (1511–1571), reformer in Vaud Canton
  • Lukas Vischer (1926–2008), theologian and writer
  • Johann Jakob Wettstein (1693–1754), theologian
  • John Joachim Zubly (Hans Joachim Züblin), (1724–1781), pastor, delegate to the Continental Congress
  • Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531), reformer in Zurich

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