List of religious leaders in 1938

See also:

• List of state leaders in 1938
• List of colonial governors in 1938

1937 religious leaders – Events of 1938 – 1939 religious leaders – Religious leaders by year

Christianity

Catholic

• Roman Catholic Church-Pope Pius XI (1922-February 1939)

Catholic not in communion with Rome

• Polish National Catholic Church – First Prime Bishop Franciszek Hodur: Founder presided as Prime Bishop from (1924–1946)

Oriental orthodoxy

• Coptic Christianity-Pope Youanes XIX of Alexandria(1929–1942)
• Assyrian Church of the East-Assyrian Patriarch in Qochanis Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII (1920–1975)

Protestant and offshoots

• Church of England – Archbishop of Canterbury Cosmo Lang (1928–1942)
• Church of Sweden – Archbishop of Uppsala – Erling Eidem(1931–1950)
• Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod – President John W. Behnken (1935–1962)
• The Salvation Army – General Evangeline Booth (1934–1939)
• New Apostolic Church – Johann Gottfried Bischoff, Chief Apostle (1930–1960)

Other Christian

• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) – Heber J. Grant, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1918–1945)
• Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (now called Community of Christ) – Frederick Madison Smith (1914–1946)

Judaism

• Chief rabbi of British Mandate of Palestine
  • Ashkenazi-Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog(1936–1948)
• Chief rabbi of the British Empire- Joseph H. Hertz(1913 to his death on January 14, 1946)

Islam

Ismaili

• Nizari – Aga Khan III (1885–1957)
• Dawoodi Bohras – Syedna Taher Saifuddin (1915–1965)

Ahmadiyya

• Ahmadiyya Muslim Community – Khalifatul Masih II, Hazrat Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad (1914–1965)
• Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement-Maulana Muhammad Ali(Amir 1914–1951)

Buddhism

• Tibetan Buddhism – Fourteenth Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso (Officially 1935–present, but not discovered until 1937. See explanation at Dalai Lama)