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In Memoriam
December 31, 2008
A look back at religious leaders and others who died in 2008.

Gordon Hinckley
Gordon Hinckley
(1910 – January 27, 2008), president and spiritual leader, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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Tom Lantos
(1928 – February 11, 2008) champion of religious freedom and human rights, only Holocaust survivor to serve in Congress (D-Calif.)

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Sir John Templeton
(1912 – July 8, 2008) philanthropist and founder of Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion

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Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho
(1942 – February or March 2008) leader of Chaldean Catholic Church in Iraq

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W. Deen Mohammed
(1933 - September 9, 2008), imam and American Muslim leader

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
(1918 – August 3, 2008), Russian writer, dissident, and Orthodox Christian

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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
(1917 – February 5, 2008) Indian guru and founder of Transcendental Meditation

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Archbishop Christodoulos
(1939 – January 28, 2008) Archbishop of Athens (Greek Orthodox Church)

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Patriarch Aleksy II
(1929 - December 5, 2008), leader of the Russian Orthodox Church

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Sister Emanuelle
(1908 - October 20, 2008), French nun, humanitarian, advocate for the needy

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Paul M. Weyrich
(1942 - December 18, 2008), conservative political activist and commentator, architect of the religious right, co-founder of Moral Majority

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Cardinal Avery Dulles, S.J.
(1918 – December 12, 2008), Roman Catholic scholar, educator, and first American Jesuit to be named a cardinal

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William Placher
(1948 – November 29, 2008), theologian, teacher, writer

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Krister Stendahl
(1921 - April 15, 2008), former dean of Harvard Divinity School, theologian, scholar, ecumenical bishop

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Miles Lerman
(1920 – January 22, 2008), founder and chairman, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum