His Holiness Bhakti Vikasa Swami

(1957, England-Alive). Hindu Swami. First initiated on Janmastami, 1975. Joined the International Society of Krishna Consciousness and took the name Ilapati Dasa, 1975. Visited India, 1976 and lived in India and Bangladesh after 1977. Ordained sannyasin and took name Bhakti Vikasa Swami. Began accepting disciples in 1991. Now has more than 200 initiated disciples. Author.

Most Reverend Bishop Erik Vikstrom

Bishop of Porvoo, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. Ordained Minister, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. Bishop of Porvoo. Nordic Co-ordinator, Porvoo Agreement.

Ecumenist.

Most Reverend Archbishop and Metropolitan Primate Joseph Rene Vilatte

(January 24, 1854, Paris, France-July 8, 1929, Pont Colbert, France). Metropolitan Primate and Archbishop, American Catholic Church. Converted from Petite Eglise sect to Roman Catholicism, 1867. Became Presbyterian Minister in Wisconsin, c. 1869. Ordained Priest, Old Catholic Church, June 7, 1885. Converted to the Russian Orthodox Church as a priest, May, 1891. Consecrated as Mar Timotheous I, Jacobite Old Catholic Bishop of North America, May 29, 1892. Founder, Primate and Metropolitan, American Catholic Church, 1915-1920, Exarch, 1920. Reconciled with the Roman Catholic Church, June 1, 1925.

Bishop John Heyl Vincent

(February 23, 1832, Tuscaloosa, Alabama-May 9, 1920). Methodist Resident Bishop for European Work, 1900-1904. Ordained Deacon, Methodist Episcopal Church, 1855. Ordained Elder, 1857. Pastor, Chicago and Galena, Illinois, 1857-1865. Founder, Northwest Sunday-School Quarterly, 1865. Founder, Sunday-School Teacher, 1866. Corresponding Secretary, General Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, 1868-1884. Noted as the founder of the Chatauqua movement, 1874. Editor, Methodist Sunday School Publications, 1868-1884. Chancellor, Chatauqua University. Resident Bishop in Charge of European Work, Methodist Episcopal Church, 1900-May, 1904.

His Eminence Andre Cardinal Vingt-Trois

(November 7, 1942, Paris, France-Alive). Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archbishop of Paris, France, 2005-Current. Ordained Priest, June 28, 1969. Auxiliary Bishop of Paris, France, June 25, 1988. Archbishop of Tours, France, April 21, 1999-February 14, 2005. Metropolitan Archbishop of Paris, February 14, 2005-Current. Elevated to the Sacred College of Cardinals, October 17, 2007.

Swami Nostradamus Virato

Guru and Enlightened Spiritual Teacher of Human Potential and Holistic Health. Initiated into sannyas by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho). Became a swami, January 10, 1980. Director, Premsagar Rajneesh Mediation Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1982-1984. Director, Association for Humanistic Psychology. Founder and Publisher, New Frontier Magazine. The first person to bring Tantra to Russia, 1992. Director, Nepal Institute. Teaches spiritual sexuality.

Swami Vishwananda

(1978, Mauritius-Alive). Hindu Spiritual Master. Founder, Chapel for the Holy Mother, 2000. Former devotee of Sai Baba. Founder, Bhakti Marga Order, 2005. Noted for blending Christian and Hindu religious practices

Reverend Willem Adolf Visser 't Hooft

(September 20, 1900, Haarlem, Netherlands-July 4, 1985, Geneva, Switzerland). First General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, 1938-1966. Ordained Minister, National Protestant Church of Geneva and the Netherlands Reformed Church. General Secretary, World Student Christian Federation, 1932-1938. Named first General Secretary, Provisional Committee of the World Council of Churches, 1938. The World Council of Churches was organizationally suspended during WWII, but Visser 't Hooft was reconfirmed as General Secretary when it was resumed in 1948. Named Honorary President upon his retirement. Regarded as a pioneer ecumenist and a leader of the first rank within the movement.

His Eminence Mar Varkey Cardinal Vithayathil

(May 29, 1927, Parur, India-Alive). Archbishop Major of Ernakulam-Angamaly, India, Syro-Malabar Rite of the Roman Catholic Church. A Redemptorist Priest since 1954. Vithayathil served as Provincial Superior of his order for India and Sri Lanka, 1978-1984. For 25 years, he taught Canon Law at the Redemptorist Major Seminary of Bangalore. Apostolic Administrator of Ernakulam-Angamaly of the Syro-Malabar Rite, April 19, 1997. Archbishop Major of Ernakulam-Angamaly, December 3, 1999. Elevated to the College of Cardinals, February 2, 2001.