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1948 religious leaders - Events of 1949 - 1950 religious leaders - Religious leaders by year
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Christianity
Catholic
- Roman Catholic Church - Pope Pius XII (1939-1958)
- Old Catholic Church of the Mariavites - Roman Maria Jakub Próchniewski (1945-1953)
Eastern orthodoxy
Oriental orthodoxy
Assyrian Christianity
- Assyrian Church of the East-Assyrian Patriarch in Qochanis Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII (1920-1975)
Protestant and offshoots
- Church of England - Archbishop of Canterbury Geoffrey Fisher (1945-1961)
- Church of Sweden - Archbishop of Uppsala - Erling Eidem (1931–1950)
- Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod - President John W. Behnken (1935 - 1962)
- The Salvation Army - General Albert Orsborn from 1946 to June 30, 1954
Other Christian
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) - George Albert Smith, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from May 21, 1945 – April 4, 1951
- Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (now called Community of Christ) - Israel Alexander Smith - (1946-1958)
Judaism
- Chief rabbi of the State of Israel
- Chief Rabbi of the British Empire: Sir Israel Brodie (1948-1965)
Islam and its offshoots
Ismaili
Ahmadiyya
- Ahmadiyya Muslim Community-Khalifatul Masih II Hazrat Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmood Ahmad (1914-1965)
- Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement-Maulana Muhammad Ali (Amir 1914-1951)
New religious movements
- Nation of Islam - Elijah Muhammad (1934-1975)
- Kimbanguism - Simon Kimbangu (1921-1951)
- Radio Church of God (now called Worldwide Church of God) - Herbert W. Armstrong
Buddhism
- Tibetan Buddhism - Fourteenth Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso (Officially 1935-present, but not discovered until 1937. See explanation at Dalai Lama)