Zoltan Nagy (January 28, 1914-June 4, 1969) was the only continental European Unitarian minister who, after emigrating at the end of the Second World War, continued an active ministry in America. He served congregations in Transylvania and the United States, was Unitarian chaplain to the Hungarian army, and ministered to Hungarian refugees in Germany.…
Celio Secondo Curione (May 1, 1503-December 24, 1569), a classical scholar and professor of eloquence, was a leading religious and humanistic voice in the community of Italian Protestants living in exile in Switzerland during the Reformation. Although too cautious to openly oppose John Calvin, he secretly helped to prepare protests against the execution of Michael Servetus.
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Many members of Niemirycz family, living in the Palatinate of Kijów (Kiev), were prominent Arians (Unitarians), connected with the Polish Brethren for four generations and active in Polish politics.
At the end of the 16th century, Andrzej Niemirycz (d.1610), a deputy judge of the Palatinate of Kijów (Kiev, then in the eastern part of Poland, now in Ukraine), who was Eastern Orthodox, married Maria Chreptowicz-Bohumyrska, an Arian from Lithuania.…
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Many members of Niemirycz family, living in the Palatinate of Kijów (Kiev), were prominent Arians (Unitarians), connected with the Polish Brethren for four generations and active in Polish politics.
At the end of the 16th century, Andrzej Niemirycz (d.1610), a deputy judge of the Palatinate of Kijów (Kiev, then in the eastern part of Poland, now in Ukraine), who was Eastern Orthodox, married Maria Chreptowicz-Bohumyrska, an Arian from Lithuania.…
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Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800-March 8, 1874), the thirteenth president of the United States, worked to preserve the union from the sectional interests that threatened to blow it apart. In doing so he supported policies with which he did not agree, in the spirit of compromise and because he felt that citizens from throughout the country should have a voice.…
Robert Edward Green (September 30, 1934-January 15, 2003) was a religious humanist and Unitarian Universalist minister who served churches in Massachusetts, Ohio, Vermont, Michigan, and, for 23 years, the First Unitarian Universalist Church, Stockton, California. Also a social activist lawyer, he founded, co-founded, and promoted numerous organizations and endeavors in Stockton to help feed and house low-income people, to protect their civil rights and rights as consumers, and to give them legal assistance.
Leonard Mason (February 7, 1912-December 26, 1995), a British Unitarian humanist minister, who served churches in England and in Montreal, Quebec, was one of the outstanding preachers and public speakers of his generation.
Born in Meadow Cottage, Ainsworth, Lancashire in 1912, Leonard was the youngest of three brothers.…
John Charles Godbey (September 26, 1927-November 5, 1999), a Unitarian Universalist minister, scholar, historian, and teacher, spent his entire professional life, 1962-96, as a faculty member at the Meadville/Lombard Theological School in Chicago, Illinois. He also taught at the University of Chicago, with which Meadville/Lombard was associated.
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William Brooks Rice (May 12, 1905-February 22, 1970), a Unitarian Universalist minister, was the chair of the Universalist and Unitarian Joint Merger Commission. An able negotiator, he was later recognized as “the chief architect” of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA).
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, William was the son of Jennie Brooks and architect Walter E.…
Mary Charlotte Ward Granniss Webster Billings (July 11, 1824-March 2, 1904) was a Universalist author, activist, and hymn writer. The wife of two Universalist ministers, she herself was ordained in 1892. Kind and generous, she exemplifies the nineteenth-century liberal missionary zeal that spread Universalism to the west.…
Richard Lloyd Jones (April 14, 1873-December 4, 1963), an outspoken and influential journalist, was the longtime owner and editor of the Tulsa Tribune. He was instrumental in creating the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site. He was also a founder of All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma.…
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Herman Bisbee (October 29, 1833-July 6, 1879) is best known as the only American Universalist minister to have been found guilty of heresy. After losing his Universalist fellowship, he became a Unitarian.
Herman was one of eight children of a Universalist farming family in West Derby (now Newport), Vermont.