This is our full list of representative Christians through the centuries.

It’s a list that will certainly grow, as we work through more stories and as we add contemporary Christians who go onto be part of the great cloud of witnesses that is referred to in Scripture. To read more about any of the Christians below, please click on their image. you can then move back and forth via the post links below each article or return to searching with links in the header and footer. The order has a bit of theology embedded in it. We choose with the birth day or year of the person, not their death day. We understand that God knit us together and called us well before we returned a call to him, that he knew us even when we didn’t fully know him. We trust the multiple ways to search will alleviate any misgivings you might find in the order.

Paul of Tarsus

100

Justin Martyr

155

Tertullian of Carthage

274

Alban

296

Athanasius of Alexandria

347

John Chrysostom

354

Augustine of Hippo

387

Patrick

480

Benedict of Nursia

560

Isidore of Seville

675

Venerable Bede

1033

Anselm of Canterbury

1090

Bernard of Clairvaux

1098

Hildegard of Bingen

1181

Francis of Assisi

1225

Thomas Aquinas

1265

Dante Alighieri

1320

John Wycliffe

1347

Catherine of Siena

1369

Jan Hus

1412

Joan of Arc

1478

Thomas More

1483

Martin Luther

1484

Ulrich Zwingli

1489

Thomas Cranmer

1491

Ignatius of Loyola

1509

John Calvin

1593

George Herbert

1662

Samuel Wesley

1703

Jonathan Edwards

1703

John Wesley

1707

Charles Wesley

1711

John Francis Wade

1714

George Whitefield

1716

George Taylor

1719

James Smith

1724

Isaac Backus

1725

John Newton

1725

John Morton

1728

Caesar Rodney

1733

George Read

1734

Thomas McKean

1734

Robert Morris

1739

George Clymer

1742

Manasseh Cutler

1742

James Wilson

1745

Francis Asbury

1745

Benjamin Rush

1746

Benjamin Rush

1755

Richard Furman

1759

William Wilberforce

1759

Charles Simeon

1760

Richard Allen

1761

Willam Carey

1770

William Wordsworth

1773

Joseph Mohr

1792

John Henry Hopkins

1792

Charles Finney

1797

Sojourner Truth

1801

John Henry Newman

1804

Samuel Ajayi Crowther

1805

George Mueller

1806

James Finn

1807

Phoebe Palmer

1813

Søren Kierkegaard

1813

Henry Ward Beecher

1813

David Livingstone

1819

Alexander Crummell

1820

Florence Nightingale

1820

Fanny Crosby

1821

Fyodor Dostoevsky

1822

Harriet Tubman

1828

Andrew Murray

1828

Horatio Spafford

1829

William Booth

1830

Christina Rossetti

1837

D.L. Moody

1840

Lottie Moon

1848

Mary Slessor

1850

Annie Armstrong

1856

Charles H. Gabriel

1857

Milton Hershey

1860

C.T. Studd

1860

Anton Chekhov

1862

Billy Sunday

1866

Annie Johnson Flint

1870

William Seymour

1871

John Wesley Work Jr.

1874

Oswald Chambers

1874

Nikolai Berdyaev

1874

G.K. Chesterton

1878

Frank Buchman

1886

Karl Barth

1886

Paul Tillich

1887

Charles E. Fuller

1887

Lillian Hunt Trasher

1888

T.S. Eliot

1891

William F. Albright

1892

Reinhold Niebuhr

1892

Corrie ten Boom

1892

J.R.R. Tolkien

1893

Dorothy L. Sayers

1897

Dorothy Day

1897

A.W. Tozer

1898

C.S. Lewis

1899

Thomas A. Dorsey

1902

Kyrillos VI

1903

Malcolm Muggeridge

1904

Karl Rahner

1905

Harold J. Ockenga

1906

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

1909

Simone Weil

1910

Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu

1911

Marshall McLuhan

1912

Jacques Ellul

1914

Robert Pierce

1915

Thomas Merton

1916

Walker Percy

1917

Louis Zamperini

1917

Bob Lindsey

1918

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1918

Billy Graham

1920

Ruth Graham

1920

John Paul II

1920

P.D. James

1921

Truett Cathy

1921

John Stott

1925

Flannery O’Connor

1926

Allan Sandage

1926

Ivan Illich

1926

Elizabeth Alexandra

1927

Jim Elliot

1932

Johnny Cash

1932

Eugene Peterson

1933

Jerry Falwell

1934

Brennan Manning

1934

John Wimber

1944

Jack Heaslip

1953

Jean Donovan

1953

Keith Green

1955

Rick Elias

1955

John Chacha

1955

Rich Mullins

1987

Larry Norman

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Russian Orthodox

December 11, 1918 - August 3, 2008

By Zach Kincaid

In these dark days in which the power of secular fundamentalism appears to be on the rise and in which religious freedom seems to be imperiled, it is easy for Christians to become despondent. The clouds of radical relativism seem to obscure the light of objective truth and it can be difficult to discern any…

Billy Graham

Southern Baptist

November 7, 1918 - February 21, 2018

By Zach Kincaid

Billy Graham passed away February 21st, 2018 at the age of 99. His impact reverberates everywhere. The numbers are simply astounding: 215 million people make up his total audience with more than 3 million becoming born again Christians in his seven decades of ministry. His 400 crusades were given all over the world, in more than 80…

Ruth Graham

Presbyterian

June 6, 1920 - June 14, 2007

By Zach Kincaid

Ruth Bell Graham, wife of evangelist Billy Graham, was born at Qingjiang, Kiangsu, China, on June 10, 1920, as Ruth McCue Bell. Her parents, Dr. and Mrs. L. Nelson Bell, were medical missionaries at the Presbyterian Hospital 300 miles north of Shanghai. As a young girl there in the small hospital compound, Ruth first sensed…

John Paul II

Catholic

May 18, 1920 - April 2, 2005

By Zach Kincaid

KAROL JÓZEF WOJTYŁA, elected Pope on 16 October 1978, was born in Wadowice, Poland, on 18 May 1920. He was the third of three children born to Karol Wojtyła and Emilia Kaczorowska, who died in 1929. His elder brother Edmund, a physician, died in 1932, and his father, Karol, a non-commissioned officer in the army,…

P.D. James

Anglican

August 30, 1920 - November 27, 2014

By Zach Kincaid

“Murder is the unique crime. It is the taking away of something which we as humans haven’t the power to give and cannot possibly restore. Murder is also a contaminating crime. It touches the lives of every character, even the innocent.” Acclaimed British murder mystery writer P.D. James spilt a lot of ink and fictitious…

Truett Cathy

Southern Baptist

March 21, 1921 - September 8, 2014

By Zach Kincaid

Chick-fil-A, Inc., Founder S. Truett Cathy died Sept. 8, 2014, at age 93. Cathy started the business in 1946, when he and his brother, Ben, opened an Atlanta diner known as The Dwarf Grill (later renamed The Dwarf House®). Through the years, that restaurant prospered and led Cathy to further the success of his business. In…

John Stott

Anglican

April 27, 1921 - July 27, 2011

By Zach Kincaid

Educated at Cambridge University, Stott was one of the most influential clergymen in the Church of England in the twentieth century. In 1950 he became rector of All Souls Church in London (the parish where he was born), and in 1975 rector emeritus. From 1952 to 1977 he led missions to university students on five…

Flannery O’Connor

Catholic

March 25, 1925 - August 3, 1964

By Zach Kincaid

Flannery O’Connor’s biography begins on March 25, 1925, in Savannah, a colonial seaport draped with incomparable beauty. The Savannah chapter of O’Connor’s childhood, spent in a Lafayette Square house just one block over from St. John the Baptist Cathedral, provided the cornerstone of her Catholic faith. She called Savannah “a colony of the Over-Irish” and…

Elizabeth Alexandra

Anglican

April 21, 1926 - September 8, 2022

By Zach Kincaid

Queen Elizabeth II had a strong Christian faith, evident throughout her life in her words and actions. As well as her formal role as ‘Defender of the Faith and Supreme Governor of the Church of England’, which came with monarchy, her personal faith was evident even before she was crowned. ‘Pray for me … that…