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Clergy • Writers born active died
1596 ca 1616-1660 1660, Feb 10
a Dutch rabbi of Portuguese descent. Morteira was the founder of the congregational school Keter Torah, in the highest class of which he taught Talmud and Jewish philosophy. He had also to preach three times a month, and received an annual remuneration of 600 guilders and 100 baskets of turf. Morteira's polemical sermons in Hebrew against the Catholic Church were published, but his Portuguese writings against Calvinism remained unpublished
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Saul Levi Morteira 1596 ca 1616
1660 1660, Feb 10
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He was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, and is buried in Tubrid Grave... Gerasimos I Spartaliotes unknown 1620 1636 unknown Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria for the Greek Orthodox Church (1620-1636). He was distinguished ... Neophytus III of Nicea unknown 1636 1637 unknown Ecumenical Patriarch (1636-1637)*Church of Constantinople Johann Heinrich Alsted 1588, Mar 1608 1638 1638, Nov 9 a German Calvinist minister and academic, known for his varied interests: in Ramism and Lullism, ... Cyril I Lucaris 1572, Nov 13 1612 1638 1638, Jun 27 a Greek prelate and theologian, and a native of Candia, Crete (then under the Republic of Venice)... Anne Hutchinson unknown 1634 1638 unknown a Puritan spiritual adviser, mother of 15, and an important participant in the Antinomian Controv... Cyril II Kontares unknown 1633 1639 1640 Ecumenical Patriarch (1633; 1635-1636; 1638-1639)*Church of Constantinople Mitrophanes Kritikopoulos unknown 1636 1639 unknown Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria for the Greek Orthodox Church (1636-1639). His activities were m... Murad IV 1612, Jul 26/27 1623 1640 1640, Feb 8 the Sultan and Caliph of the Ottoman Empire from 1623 to 1640, known both for restoring the autho... Richard Bernard 1568 1598 1641 1641 an English Puritan clergyman and writer. Barnard was a Calvinist Puritan, but a moderate one. Ber... Edward Finch unknown 1630 1641 unknown an English Royalist divine. On 9 December 1630 Edward was admitted to the vicarage of Christ Chur... Joseph Hall 1574, Jul 1 1597 1643 1656, Sep 8 an English bishop, satirist and moralist. His contemporaries knew him as a devotional writer, and... Pope Urban VIII 1568, Apr 5 1592 1644 1644, Jul 29 Pope (Roman Catholic Church) from 1623 to his death in 1644. He expanded the papal territory by ... Parthenius I unknown 1639 1644 unknown Ecumenical Patriarch (1639-1644)*Church of Constantinople William Laud 1573, Oct 7 1601 1645 1645, Jan 10 an English bishop and academic. He was the Archbishop of Canterbury for the Church of England fro... Nikiphoros unknown 1639 1645 1645, Apr Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria (1639-1645) for the Greek Orthodox Church. During his tenure as ... Matthew III unknown 1631 1646 1646, Mar 31 the 100th Pope of Alexandria for the Coptic Orthodox Christian Church from 1631 to 1646 and Patri... John Abbot 1587/88 1623 1647 1650 ca an English Roman Catholic clergyman and poet. His birthplace is uncertain, but may have been Lond... Thomas Edwards [2] 1599 ca 1625 1647 1647 an English Puritan clergyman. He was a very influential preacher in London of the 1640s, and also... Ibrahim I 1615, Nov 5 1640 1648 1648, Aug 18 the Sultan and Caliph (Sunni Islam) of the Ottoman Empire/Caliphate from 1640 until 1648. Ibrahim... Charles I 1600, Nov 19 1625 1649 1649, Jan 30 was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and Supreme Governor of the ... Jasper Fisher 1591 1630 1649 unknown an English divine and dramatist. About 1631 (according to Anthony Wood) he became rector of Wilsd... Naftali Hertz unknown 1640 1649 unknown a German rabbi, born in Frankfurt, author of the controversial work Emeq HaMelekh (Valley of the ... Parthenius II unknown 1640 1651 unknown the Ecumenical Patriarch for the Church of Constantinople for two periods (1644-1646, 1648-1651).... Godefroy Wendelin 1580, Jun 6 1599 1652 1667, Oct 24 a Flemish astronomer. The crater Vendelinus on the Moon is named after him. Around 1630 he measur... Athanasius III Patelaros unknown 1634 1652 unknown Ecumenical Patriarch (1634, 1635 and 1652)*Church of Constantinople Pierre Gassendi 1592, Jan 22 1617 1653 1655, Oct 24 a French philosopher, priest, scientist, astronomer, and mathematician. While he held a church po... Cardinal Jules Raymond Mazarin 1602, Jul 14 1628 1653 1661, Mar 9 an Italian cardinal, diplomat, and politician, who served as the Chief Minister to the King of Fr... Theodore Tronchin 1582, Apr 17 1608 1655 1657, Nov 19 a Swiss Calvinist theologian, controversialist and Hebraist. He studied theology at Geneva, Basel... Pope Innocent X 1574, May 6 1626 1655 1655, Jan 7 Pope for the Roman Catholic Church from 15 September 1644 to his death in 1655. Born in Rome of ... Paisius I unknown 1640 1655 unknown a two-time Ecumenical Patriarch for the Church of Constantinople (August 1, 1652-April 1653, Marc... Joannicius II unknown 1624 1656 1659/1660 Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople four times from 1646 to 1656 (1646-1648; 1651-1652; 1653-1... Pope Mark VI unknown 1646 1656 1656, Apr 20 the 101st Pope of Alexandria & Patriarch of the See of St. Mark for the Coptic Orthodox Church. P... David Pardo [1] 1591 ca 1610 1657 1657, Mar 15 a Dutch rabbi and hakham. He was born at Salonica to Rabbi Joseph and Reina in the second half of... Menasseh Ben Israel 1604 1632 1657 1657, Nov 20 a Portuguese rabbi, kabbalist, writer, diplomat, printer and publisher, founder of the first Hebr... Ioannikios unknown 1645 1657 1657, Sep 15 Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria (1645-1657) for the Greek Orthodox Church. During his tenure as ... Oliver Cromwell 1599, Apr 25 1628 1658 1658, Sep 3 an English military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England,... Gabriel II unknown 1648 1659 1659, Dec 3 the Ecumenical Patriarch of for the Church of Constantinople for one week in 1657. In 1659 he wa... Cyril III unknown 1650 1659 unknown the Ecumenical Patriarch of the Church of Constantinople for two short terms in 1652 and 1654. T... Richard Cromwell 1626, Oct 4 1658 1659 1712, Jul 12 Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland, and one of only two commoners to become the Engl... Theophanes II unknown 1659 1659 unknown Ecumenical Patriarch (1659)*Church of Constantinople Lobsang Chökyi Gyalsten 1570 1570 1662 1662 the fourth Panchen Lama of the Gelug (Yellow Hat sect) school of Tibetan Buddhism from 1570-1662 ... Robert Abbot [1] 1588 ca 1610 1662 1662 ca an English theologian who promoted puritan doctrines. He is sometimes mistakenly described as the... William Aspinwall unknown 1648 1662 unknown a nonconformist English minister. He proceeded B.A. in 1657, but having obtained orders, went no... William Ames [2] unknown 1655 1662 1662 an early English itinerant Quaker preacher and writer. He joined the Quakers in 1655 at Dublin, h... William Juxon 1582 1633 1663 1663, Jun 4 an English churchman, Bishop of London from 1633 to 1649 and Archbishop of Canterbury from 1660 u... William Day 1605 ca 1624 1666 1684 an English cleric and biblical commentator. He received his education at Eton College. He was ele... Patriarch Nikon I 1605, May 7 1652 1666 1681, Aug 17 the seventh Patriarch of Moscow and all the Rus' of the Russian Orthodox Church, serving official... Pope Alexander VII 1599, Feb 13 1655 1667 1667, May 22 Pope for the Roman Catholic Church from 7 April 1655 to his death in 1667. Alexander VII disliked... John Wilkins 1614, Feb 14 1637 1668 1672, Nov 19 an Anglican clergyman, natural philosopher and author, and was one of the founders of the Royal S... John Knowles [1] unknown 1646 1668 unknown an English antitrinitarian preacher, imprisoned in 1665. A short paper of arguments for the deity... John Trapp 1601, Jun 5 1622 1669 1669, Oct 16 an English Anglican Bible commentator. His large five-volume commentary is still read today and i... Edward Boys [2] 1599 1630 1669 1667 an English divine. Educated at Eton, he was elected a scholar of Corpus Christi College, Cambridg... Giovanni Battista Riccioli 1598, Apr 17 1628 1671 1671, Jun 25 an Italian astronomer and a Catholic priest in the Jesuit order. He is known, among other things,... Ascanio II Piccolomini 1590 1629 1671 1671 the archbishop of Siena from 1629 to 1671. Ascanio was a mathematics pupil of Bonaventura Cavalie... William Brough unknown 1630 1671 1671 an English royalist churchman, Dean of Gloucester from 1643. Brough was a supporter of William La... Ingen Ryuki 1592, Dec 7 1620 1673 1673, May 19 a Chinese Linji Chán Buddhist monk, poet, and calligrapher. He is most known for founding the Ob... Giacomo Carissimi 1605, Apr 1623 1674 1674, Jan 12 an Italian composer. He is one of the most celebrated masters of the early Baroque or, more accur... Robert Herrick 1591, Aug 1623 1674 1674, Oct a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is best known for Hesperides, a book of poems. T... Paisios Ligarides unknown 1657 1677 unknown Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria for the Greek Orthodox Church (1657-1677). He went to Moscow fol... Methodius III unknown 1646 1679 1679 the Ecumenical Patriarch for the Church of Constantinople in 1668–1671. Descended from Crete, ... Thomas Watson [2] 1620 ca 1646 1679 1686 an English, Nonconformist, Puritan preacher and author. He showed strong Presbyterian views durin... Celio Piccolomini 1609 1658 1681 1681, May 24 a man of the Italian Church, created cardinal by Pope Alexander VII at the Consistory of 14 Janua... Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso 1617 1642 1682 1682 the Fifth Dalai Lama of the Gelug (Yellow Hat Buddhism) of Tibet. Gyatso is credited with unifyin... Parthenius IV unknown 1655 1685 unknown a 5-time Ecumenical Patriarch for the Church of Constantinople (1657–1659, 1665–1667, 1671, 1... Mehmed IV 1642, Jan 2 1648 1687 1693, Jan 6 the Sultan and Caliph of the Ottoman Empire from 1648 to 1687. Taking the throne at age six, his ... John Bunyan 1628, Nov 1644 1688 1688, Aug 31 an English writer and Baptist preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory Pope Innocent XI 1611, May 16 1650 1689 1689, Aug 12 Pope for the Roman Catholic Church from 21 September 1676 to his death in 1689. He is known as th... Michael Wigglesworth 1631 1651 1691 1705 a Puritan minister, doctor and poet whose poem The Day of Doom was a bestseller in early N... Isaac Aboab da Fonseca 1605, Feb 1 1623 1693 1693, Apr 4 a rabbi, scholar, kabbalist and writer. In 1656, he was one of several elders within the Portugue... Charles Albanel 1616 1649 1696 1696, Jun 11 a French missionary explorer in Canada, and a Jesuit priest. In 1649, he arrived in Canada at Tad... Pope Innocent XII 1615, Mar 13 1652 1700 1700, Sep 27 Pope for the Roman Catholic Church from 12 July 1691 to his death in 1700. He took a hard stance ... Jacques-Benigne Bossuet 1627, Sep 27 1643 1701 1704, Apr 12 a French bishop and theologian, renowned for his sermons and other addresses. He has been conside... Philipp Spener 1635, Jan 13 1653 1702 1705, Feb 5 a German Christian theologian known as the "Father of Pietism." Highly influenced by Johann Arndt... Pierre Daniel Huet 1630, Feb 8 1651 1721 1721, Jan 26 a French churchman and scholar, editor of the Delphin Classics, founder of the Academie du Physiq... Zanabazar 1635 1639 1723 1723 the sixteenth Jebtsundamba Khutuktu and the first Bogd Gegeen or supreme spiritual authority, of ...
