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Eugene Carson Blake
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Born November 7, 1906 • Saint Louis • Missouri
Died July 31, 1985 (aged 78) • Stamford • Connecticut

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Willem Adolph Visser ’t Hooft
Dutch theologian
George Bell, c. 1944
George Kennedy Allen Bell
British clergyman
Michael Ramsey, Baron Ramsey of Canterbury
archbishop of Canterbury
Schaff, engraving by J.J. Cade
Philip Schaff
American theologian
John R. Mott, 1930
John R. Mott
American evangelist
William Sloane Coffin, 1968
William Sloane Coffin, Jr.
American clergyman and activist
Barnes, Albert
Albert Barnes
American clergyman and writer
Hodge, Charles
Charles Hodge
American scholar
John Mitchell Mason
American minister
Pope John XXIII
Saint John XXIII
pope
Karl Barth
Karl Barth
Swiss theologian
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
German theologian
Pope Leo XIII
Leo XIII
pope
Pope Innocent IV
Innocent IV
pope
Yves Congar
French priest
Michael VIII Palaeologus
Byzantine emperor
Nikolaus Ludwig, Graf (count) von Zinzendorf
Nikolaus Ludwig, count von Zinzendorf
German religious leader
Martin Niemöller
Martin Niemöller
German theologian and pastor
Samuel Kobia
Kenyan religious leader
Isidore Of Kiev
Greek Orthodox patriarch