Prophet, Seer, Revelator, and President Lorenzo Snow

(April 3, 1844, Mantau, Ohio-1901). Prophet, Seer, Revelator, and President, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 1898-1901. Converted to Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 1836. Missionary to England. Captain, Nauvoo Legion. Member, Utah Territorial Legislature, 1852-1882. Founded and named Brigham City, Utah. Ordained Apostle, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, February 12, 1849. President, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, April, 1889. President of the Temple, 1893-1898. Set apart and ordained Prophet, Seer, Revelator, and President, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, September 13, 1898. Translated the Book of Mormon into Italian.

Most Reverend Auxiliary Bishop Pawel Socha, C.M.

(January 10, 1935, Wojslawice, Poland-Alive). Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Zielona Gora-Gorzow, Poland, 1973-Current. Ordained Priest, Congregation of the Mission, Roman Catholic Church, May 22, 1958. Auxiliary Bishop of Zielona Gora-Gorzow, Poland, and Titular Bishop of Thunigaba, November 20, 1973-Current.

His Eminence Angelo Cardinal Sodano

(November 23, 1927, Isola d'Asti, Italy-Alive). Roman Catholic Archbishop and Vatican Secretary of State, 1991-2006 Ordained Priest, Roman Catholic Church, September 23, 1950. Apostolic Nuncio to Chile and Titular Archbishop of Nova Caesaris, November 30, 1977. Secretary, Pontifical Council for Public Affairs, May 28, 1988. President, Interdicasterial Commission for the Church in Eastern Europe, May, 1988-Current. Secretary for Relations with States, March 1, 1989. Pro-Secretary of State of the Vatican City State, September 1, 1990. Elevated to the Sacred College of Cardinals, June 18, 1991. Secretary of State for the Vatican City State, June 29, 1991-September 15, 2006.

Right Reverend Archbishop and Primate of Sweden Lars Olof Jonathan Nathan Soederblom

(January 15, 1866, Trono, Sweden-July 12, 1931). Church of Sweden Archbishop of Uppsala, and Primate of Sweden, 1914-1931. Ordained Priest, Church of Sweden, 1893. Professor of Religious Studies, Leipzig University, 1912-1914. Church of Sweden Archbishop of Uppsala, Sweden, 1914-1931. Leader of the Christian "Life and Work" movement. A founder of the ecumenical movement. Received Nobel Peace Prize, 1930.

Most Reverend Archbishop Jan Sokol

(October 9, 1933, Jacovce, Czechoslovakia-Alive). Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bratislava-Trnava, Slovakia, 1989-2008, Archbishop of Trnava, Slovakia, 2008-Current. Ordained Priest, Roman Catholic Church, June 23, 1957. Apostolic Administrator of Trnava Diocese, November 14, 1987-1989. Titular Bishop of Lunen, May 19, 1988-1989. Archbishop of Bratislava-Trnava, July 26, 1989-February 14, 2008. Archbishop of Trnava, February 14, 2008-Current.

Rav Ahron HaLevi Soloveitchik, ZT"l

(May 1, 1917, Khaslavichy, Russia-October 4, 2001, Chicago, Illinois). Orthodox Jewish Rabbi and Talmudic Scholar. Emigrated to the United States, 1930. Ordained Rabbi. Obtained law degree, 1946. Founding Member, Ben Zakkai Honor Society. President, Hebrew Theological College, Skokie, Illinois, 1966-1974. Founder, Yeshivas Brisk, Chicago, Illinois, 1974. Rosh HaYeshiva, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, Yeshiva University. Son of Moshe Soloveitchik and brother of Yosef Dov Soloveitchik. Noted for his support for civil rights and his opposition to the Vietnam War.

Rav Chaim Soloveitchik

(1853-1918). The Brisker Rav and Orthodox Jewish Rabbi. Said to be the most original and brillian mind in the world of halacha in the 20th Century. Leader of the Yeshiva of Voloshin. Founder of the "yeshiva approach to Talmudic study." Anti-Zionist.

(February 27, 1903, Pruzhan, Poland-April 8, 1993, Boston, Massachusetts). Orthodox Jewish Rabbi, Talmudist and Philosopher. Also known as Yosef Dov Soloveitchik. Grandson of Chaim Soloveitchik, zt'l and great grandson of Rabbi Yosef Ber Solveitchik, zt'l. President, RIETS Rabbinical School, Yeshiva University, 1941, c. 1981. Author of The Lonely Man of Faith. Associated with the Mizrachi Religious Zionists of America and the Orthodox Rabbinical Council of America. A proponent of "modern Orthodoxy" in Jewish life. Ordained over 2,000 Orthodox rabbis at Yeshiva University. Pro-Zionist.

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

(December 11, 1918, Kislovodsk, Russia-Alive). Christian Mystic and Author. Member, Russian Orthodox Church. Educated as a mathematician. Served in the Soviet Army during WWII, but was arrested in February, 1945, after censors accused him of disrespect for Stalin. Sentenced in absentia to eight years in detention camps. Worked as a mathematician, minor, bricklayer and foundryman while in prison. After release, he was exiled to Kok-Terek, Kazakhstan, March, 1953-June, 1956. Author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962), The First Circle (1968), The Cancer Ward (1968), August, 1914 (1971), and The Gulag Archipelago (1973-1978), among others. Received the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1970. Exiled from the Soviet Union, February 13, 1974, and lived in Vermont. His Soviet citizenship was restored in 1990 and he returned to Russia in 1994. A Christian mystic, he frequently blamed Jews, Georgians, Latvians and other minorities for the misfortunes of the former Soviet state.