Right Reverend Bishop Huyshe Wolcott Yeatman-Biggs

(February 2, 1845, Manston House, Wiltshire, England-April 14, 1922, Coventry, England). 1st Anglican Bishop of Coventry, England, 1918-1922. Ordained Priest, Anglican Church. Canon, Rochester, England, 1884-1891. Anglican Bishop of Southwark, England, 1891-1905. Anglican Bishop of Worcester, England, 1905-1918. First Anglican Bishop of Coventry, England, 1918-1922.

Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie

(Worcester, Massachusetts-Alive). Reform Jewish Rabbi and President, Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Ordained Rabbi, Reform Judaism. Rabbi, Lynbrook, New York. Rabbi, Durham, North Carolina. Director, Midwest Council, Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Executive Director, Association of Reform Zionists of America. President, Union of American Hebrew Congregations, June, 1996-Current.

Swami Yogananda Giri

(c. 1947-Alive). Hindu Swami. Sole sannyasin disciple of Swami Gitananda Giri of Pondicherry, India. Founder, Gitananda Ashram of Italy. Founder and Honorary President, Italian Hindu Union-Sanatan Dharma Sangha.

Swami Paramahansa Yogananda

(January 5, 1893, Gorakhpur, India-March 7, 1952, Los Angeles, California). Hindu Swami and Founder, Self-Realization Fellowship. Born Mukunda Lal Ghosh. Became disciple of Sri Yukteswar Giri. Took holy vows in the Swami Order under the name Yogananda, 1914. Discovered techniques of Togoda (a yoga-based system of life-energy control), 1916. Founder, Yogoda Satsanga Society of India, 1917. Introduced West to yoga through lectures and tours, c. 1920. Founder, Self-Realization Fellowship, 1920. Teacher of Kirya Yoga. Author of the classic Autobiography of a Yogi (1946).

Brahmaswarup Param Pujya Yogiji Maharaj

(May 23, 1892, Dhari, Gujarat, India-January 23, 1971, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India). Ascetic Monk and 2nd Leader of Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha. Born Jinabhai Vasanji. Initiated as a Hindu monk and known as Sadhu Gnanjivandas or Sadhu Jnanjivanji, 1908. Considered a saint, fourth spiritual successor to Bhagwan Swaminarayan and guru of the Swaminarayan faith.

Rishon LeTzion Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef

(1920, Basra, Iraq-Alive). Chief Sephardic Rabbi of Israel, 1973-1983. Born Abdullah Youssef. Talmudic scholar and recognized authority on Halakha. Chief Sephardic Rabbi of Israel, 1973-1983. A major figure in Haredi Judaism. Made Aliyeh to Israel, 1924. Received rabbinical ordination, 1940. Rabbi, Yeshiva A'hava Ve'Ahva, Cairo, Egypt, 1942-1945. Member, Rabbinical Court in Petah Tikva and Jerusalem. Member, Supreme Rabbinical Court of Appeals. Chief Sephardic Rabbi of Tel Aviv, 1968-1973. Chief Sephardic Rabbi of Israel, 1973-1983. Spiritual leader of the Shas political party. Noted for his controversial and outspoken views on political and social subjects. Father of Rav Yaacov Yosef.

Rav Yaacov Yosef

Jewish Rabbi. Son of Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. Leader of the Religious National Party of Israel.

Right Reverend Bishop Chikai Yosemori

(Okinawa, Japan-Alive). Bishop, Buddhist Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawii. Buddhist priest. 14th Bishop of Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii. Trustee, Pacific Buddhist Academy.

Right Reverend Bishop Munib A. Younan

(September 18, 1950, Jerusalem, Israel-Alive). Evangelical Lutheran Bishop in Jordan and Palestine. Ordained Minister, Evangelical Lutheran Church, May 20, 1976. Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and Palestine, Januiary 6, 1998-Current. Resides in Jerusalem.

Reverend Andrew Jackson Young, Jr.

(March 12, 1932, New Orleans, Louisiana-Alive). Minister, United Church of Christ, and 15th U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, 1977-1979. Ordained Minister, United Church of Christ, 1955. Pastor, United Church of Christ, Marion, Alabama. Pastor, United Churches of Christ, Thomasville and Beachton, Georgia. Associate Director, Department fo Youth Work, National Council of Churches, 1957-1961. Executive Director, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1964, Executive Vice President, 1967. Civil rights leader. Chairman, Atlanta Community Relations Commission, 1970-1972. U.S. Representative (D-Georgia), January 3, 1973-January 29, 1977. 15th U.S. Ambassador to the Untied Nations, January 27, 1977-September 23, 1979. Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, January 4, 1982-January 2, 1990. Candidate for Democratic nomination for Governor of Georgia, 1990.

Prophet, Seer, Revelator and President Brigham Young

(June 1, 1801, Whitingham, Vermont-August 29, 1877, Salt Lake City, Utah). Second Prophet, Seer, Revelator and President, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 1847-1877. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 1832. Led band of converts to Kirtland, Ohio, 1833. Mormon missionary to eastern U.S. Appointed 3rd in seniority to the Quorum of Twelve Apostles, 1835. Senior Member, 1838. Directed Mormon removal to Nauvoo, Illinois. Missionary to England, 1839-1841. Chief Financial Officer of the Church, 1841. Led Mormons on trek to Salt Lake City after death of Joseph Smith, Jr. Elected Second Prophet, Seer, Revelator and President at winter quarters in Nebraska, 1847. Built Salt Lake City and ruled Utah as a theocracy. Proclaimed and practiced polygamy, having 17 to 25 wives and 56 children. First Governor of Utah Territory, 1849-1857. Resigned as Governor after President Buchanan sent army to remove him. Indicted for polygamy, 1871, but not convicted.

Right Reverend Suffragan Bishop Clive Young

(1948, Chelmsford, Essex, England-Alive). Anglican Suffragan Bishop of Dunwich. Ordained Priest, 1972. Vicar, St. Paul, Old Fort, East London, 1979-1992. Area Dean of Tower Hamlets, 1989-1992. Archdeacon of Hackney and Vicar of St. Andrews, Holborn, 1992-1999. Suffragan Bishop of Dunwich, 2000-Current.

Bishop Claes-Bertil Ytterberg

Bishop, Church of Sweden. Ordained Minister, Church of Sweden. Bishop of Vasteras, Sweden, 1988-Current.

Swami Shri Yukteshwar Giri

(May 10, 1855, Serampore, India-March 9, 1936, Puri, India). Hindu Swami. Born Priya Nath Karar. Disciple of Lahiri Mahasaya. Entered religious orders after the death of his wife. Considered a "Jnanavatar" or incarnation of wisdom. Preceptor of Paramahamsa Yogananda and Paramahamsa Hariharananda. PRactitioner of kriya yoga. Author of The Holy Silence (1894).

His Eminence Paul Cardinal Yu-Pin

(April 13, 1901, Lan-si Sien, China-August 16, 1978, Rome, Italy). Roman Catholic Archbishop of Nanking, China, 1946-1978. Ordained Priest, Roman Catholic Church, December 22, 1928. Vicar Apostolic of Nanking, China, July 7, 1936. Titular Bishop of Sozusa in Palaestina, July 7, 1936. Archbishop of Nanking, China, April 11, 1946. Lived in exile in the United States after 1949. Elevated to Sacred College of Cardinals, April 28, 1969.