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Most Reverend Bishop Leonard Paul Blair

(April 12, 1949, Detroit, Michigan-Alive). Roman Catholic Bishop of Toledo, Ohio, 2003-Current. Ordained Priest, Roman Catholic Church, June 26, 1976. Named Chaplain to His Holiness with title of Monsignor, March 26, 1990. Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit, Michigan, and Titular Bishop of Voncariana, July 9, 1999. Bishop of Toledo, Ohio, October 7, 2003-Current.

Bishop Leonard Paul Blair Signature

Reverend Eugene Carson Blake

(November 7, 1906, St. Louis, Missouri-July 13, 1985, Stamford, Connecticut). General Secretary, World Council of Churches, 1966-1972. Ordained Minister, Presbyterian Church, 1932. Stated Clerk, Presbyterian Church, 1951-1966. President, National Council of Churches of Christ, 1954-1957. General Secretary, World Council of Churches, 1966-1972. A leading liberal clergyman and outspoken civil rights advocate and anti-war activist. Foe of McCarthyism and a champion of the ecumenical movement. Arrested in 1963 for trying to integrate an amusement park in Maryland.

Reverend Eugene Carson Blake Signature

Most Reverend and Right Honorable Archbishop Stuart Yarworth Blanch, Baron Blanch of Bishopthorpe

(February 2, 1918, Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England-June 3, 1994). Anglican Archbishop of York, 1975-1983. Ordained Priest, Anglican Church. Vice Principal, Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, England, 1957-1960. Warden, Rochester Theological College, 1960-1966. Bishop of Liverpool, 1966-1975. Privy Counsellor, 1975. Archbishop of York, 1975-1983. Named Life Peer as Baron Blanch of Bishopthorpe, September 5, 1983. Author of The World Our Orphanage (1972), For All Mankind (1976), The Christian Militant (1978), The Burning Bush (1978), The Trumpet in the Morning, The Ten Commandments (1981).

Archbishop Stuart Yarworth Blanch Signature

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

(July 30/August 12 (OS), 1831, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine-May 8, 1891, London, England). Co-Founder, The Theosophical Society. Briefly the wife of General Nikifor Blavatsky. Left him and moved to Constantinople. Spent 25 years exploring the occult and meeting key religious leaders. Founded a spiritualist society in Egypt. Arrived in the United States in 1870s. Founded the Theosophical Society with Colonel Henry S. Olcott and William Q. Judge, September 8, 1875. Repudiated spiritualism in Isis Unveiled (1877) and espoused an occult emphasis on reincarnation, karma, and ancient wisdom. Became an American citizen, July 8, 1878. Established headquarters in Adyar, India, 1879. Author of The Secret Doctrine (1888), The Voice of Silence (1889), and The Key to Theosophy (1889). Denounced as a fraud, she moved to London, but continued her work until her death. One of the modern occult's most influential leaders.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky Signature

Reverend Chrissie Blaze

Priest, The Aetherius Church, 2001-Current. Astrologer. Author. International Lecturer. Ordained Minister, The Aetherius Church, 1985. Ordained Priest, The Aetherius Church, 2001-Current. Publicity Officer, The Aetherius Society. One of the first women ordained as a minister in England. Currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

Reverend Chrissie Blaze Signature

Most Reverend Wladyslaw Blin

(May 31, 1954, Swidwin, Poland-Alive). Roman Catholic Bishop of Vitebsk, Belarus, 1999-Current. Ordained Priest, Roman Catholic Church, May 25, 1980. Bishop of Vitebsk, Belarus, October 13, 1999-Current.

Bishop Wladyslaw Blin Signature

His Eminence Archbishop and Bishop Primus Horst-Karl Block

(October 23, 1936, Ruppertsbrun, Bavaria, Germany-Alive). Archbishop and 10th Bishop Primus, International Free Protestant Episcopal Church. Psychotherapist, 1992. Deacon, International Free Protestant Episcopal Church, March, 1968. Ordained Priest, December, 1968. Titular Bishop of Edessa and Melitene, 1971. Bishop for the Diocese of West Africa, March 26, 1972. Presiding bishop of France and Germany. Archbishop and 10th Bishop Primus, 1980-Current. The Free Protestant Episcopal Church was founded on November 2, 1897, by several small British episcopates seeking to sustain traditional Anglicanism against Anglo-Catholicism. Archbishop Block was elected Bishop Primus to replace the designated successor of the 8th Bishop Primus, who presided over the church for a brief period in 1979.

Bishop Primus Dr. Horst-Karl Block Signature

Right Reverend Bishop John Bluck

(Nuhaka, New Zealand-Alive). Anglican Bishop of Waiapu, New Zealand. Director of Communications, World Council of Churches. Ordained Priest, Anglican Church. Dean, Christchurch Cathedral, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1990-2002. Bishop of Waiapu, New Zealand, August, 2002-Current. Author. Noted for traveling his diocese on a motorcycle.

Bishop John Bluck Signature

Right Reverend Bishop Richard Frederick Lefevre Blunt

Anglican Bishop of Hull, England, 1891-??. Ordained Priest, Anglican Church. Canon Residency of York, 1871. Archdeacon of East Riding, Yorkshire, 1873-1891. Bishop of Hull, England, May 1, 1891-??. Vicar of All Saints Church, Hessle, England, 1905-1910. An Anglo-Catholic sympathizer.

Bishop Richard F. L. Blunt Signature