There are existing sub-sections on religious denominations to deal with Christian lay people in politics, e.g.
List of LDS politicians. This list is for politicians who also do Christian pastoral work, both ordained clergy and evangelists or theologians. It is therefore not appropriate to add Christian lay people to the list, although some noted theologians in the laity are included as relational.
Dennis Drainville - New Democratic MPP for Ontario from 1990-1993. Later Anglican Bishop of Quebec from 2009-2017.
Stephen Green, Baron Green of Hurstpierpoint - Conservative Minister of State for Trade and Investment from 2011-2013, Member of House of Lords Temporal since 2010, Church of England priest
Lee Jae-joung – National Assembly member and Unification Minister of
South Korea; Anglican priest
Walter Lini – founding Prime Minister of
Vanuatu (succeeded by Bani); Anglican priest
Peter Douglas Koon - Hong Kong Anglican Priest, provincial secretary general of
Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui, Member of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, Member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council
J. G. MacManaway – British Unionist who was disqualified from sitting on Parliament due to his status as a priest; Church of Ireland priest
Jacob Mountain - Canadian Politician. Member of the Legislative Council of Lower Canada from 1793 - 1825 and a Member of the Legislative Council of Upper Canada from 1793-1825. 1st Anglican Bishop of Quebec.
Wavel Ramkalawan - Anglican priest and 5th President of the Seychelles
John Terris - Anglican priest, Labour politician, Deputy Speaker (hence also Acting Speaker), and Chairman of Committees of the New Zealand House of Representatives from 1984 to 1990. Mayor of Lower Hutt City 1995-2004.
K.H. Ting -Anglican priest, Bishop of Chekiang, vice-chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (1989–2008), and a member of the National People's Congress, China's legislature.
Thomas Clement "Tommy" Douglas – Canadian social democratic politician and Baptist minister; elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1935 as a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF); became the Saskatchewan CCF's leader, then the seventh Premier of Saskatchewan, 1944-1961
Tim Hutchinson – former Senator from Arkansas and former Baptist pastor
Jesse Jackson – civil rights activist and Baptist minister
James Lankford – former member of the United States House of Representative (2011-2015) and current
United States Senator from the State of Oklahoma. Lankford served as a student ministry and evangelism specialist with the
Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma and Falls Creek Baptist Conference Center. He is a graduate of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, TX.
Pat Robertson – Republican supporter, former United States presidential nomination candidate, and former Baptist pastor.
William Tolbert- Member of the Liberian House of Representatives, Vice-President of Liberia, and last President of Liberia who represented the True Whig Party and the old Americo-Liberian aristocracy. Baptist minister and first African president of the
Baptist World Alliance
Boulos Basili – priest, first priest to enter the Egyptian Assembly in 1971 after winning a free election in his district Shoubra, in Cairo, Egypt; served in the parliament until 1975
Mitro Repo – Finnish Orthodox Christian priest, member of the European Parliament from 2009 until 2014, elected as an independent candidate on the Social Democratic Party's ticket.
Kim Jackson - Democratic Georgia State Senator. First openly out LGBT state senator in Georgian history.
Wythe Leigh Kinsolving – Episcopal priest, essayist and campaigner for
Democratic candidates in 1910s-1930s, and against US participation in
World War II in late 1930s through 1941
James Kilbourne- Episcopal Priest, surveyor, and Democratic-Republican member of the Ohio legislature and the US House of Representatives
Charles Colson – chief counsel for President of the United States
Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973 and was one of the
Watergate Seven; maintains a variety of media channels which discuss contemporary issues from an
Evangelical Christian worldview; his views are typically consistent with a politically conservative interpretation of evangelical Christianity
Eduardo Villanueva (born 6 October 1946) – known as Bro. Eddie;[1] religious and political leader in the Philippines; 2010 Philippine presidential candidate; founder and leader of the Jesus is Lord Church[2]
Dan Johnson (1960-2017) – known as the "Pope;" Elected to the
Kentucky House of Representatives for the 49th District; Committed suicide after allegations and investigations for child molestation
Joachim Gauck – President of Germany from 2012 to 2017
Walter H. Moeller – American politician of the
Democratic party; entered a Lutheran seminary in 1935 and served as a pastor in the 1940s and after his retirement from politics
Frederick Muhlenberg – First Speaker of the US House of Representatives; 1793–1795.
Ham Tae-Young – 3rd Vice-President of the Republic of Korea, judge during the Korean Empire, Korean independence and nationalist leader
Stephanie Stahl Hamilton – Ordained PCUSA minister, Democratic member of both Arizona House of Representatives and the state senate
Kang Ryang-uk - Presbyterian Minister, Relative of Kim Il-Sung, secretary general of the Provisional People's Committee of North Korea, representative of the 1st class of the Supreme People's Assembly of Korea, Secretary of the Standing Committee, Chairman of the Korean Christian Federation, Vice-Chairman and later Chairman of the North Korean Social Democratic Party, and was twice elected as Vice-President
There are existing sub-sections on religious denominations to deal with Christian lay people in politics, e.g.
List of LDS politicians. This list is for politicians who also do Christian pastoral work, both ordained clergy and evangelists or theologians. It is therefore not appropriate to add Christian lay people to the list, although some noted theologians in the laity are included as relational.
Dennis Drainville - New Democratic MPP for Ontario from 1990-1993. Later Anglican Bishop of Quebec from 2009-2017.
Stephen Green, Baron Green of Hurstpierpoint - Conservative Minister of State for Trade and Investment from 2011-2013, Member of House of Lords Temporal since 2010, Church of England priest
Lee Jae-joung – National Assembly member and Unification Minister of
South Korea; Anglican priest
Walter Lini – founding Prime Minister of
Vanuatu (succeeded by Bani); Anglican priest
Peter Douglas Koon - Hong Kong Anglican Priest, provincial secretary general of
Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui, Member of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, Member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council
J. G. MacManaway – British Unionist who was disqualified from sitting on Parliament due to his status as a priest; Church of Ireland priest
Jacob Mountain - Canadian Politician. Member of the Legislative Council of Lower Canada from 1793 - 1825 and a Member of the Legislative Council of Upper Canada from 1793-1825. 1st Anglican Bishop of Quebec.
Wavel Ramkalawan - Anglican priest and 5th President of the Seychelles
John Terris - Anglican priest, Labour politician, Deputy Speaker (hence also Acting Speaker), and Chairman of Committees of the New Zealand House of Representatives from 1984 to 1990. Mayor of Lower Hutt City 1995-2004.
K.H. Ting -Anglican priest, Bishop of Chekiang, vice-chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (1989–2008), and a member of the National People's Congress, China's legislature.
Thomas Clement "Tommy" Douglas – Canadian social democratic politician and Baptist minister; elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1935 as a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF); became the Saskatchewan CCF's leader, then the seventh Premier of Saskatchewan, 1944-1961
Tim Hutchinson – former Senator from Arkansas and former Baptist pastor
Jesse Jackson – civil rights activist and Baptist minister
James Lankford – former member of the United States House of Representative (2011-2015) and current
United States Senator from the State of Oklahoma. Lankford served as a student ministry and evangelism specialist with the
Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma and Falls Creek Baptist Conference Center. He is a graduate of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, TX.
Pat Robertson – Republican supporter, former United States presidential nomination candidate, and former Baptist pastor.
William Tolbert- Member of the Liberian House of Representatives, Vice-President of Liberia, and last President of Liberia who represented the True Whig Party and the old Americo-Liberian aristocracy. Baptist minister and first African president of the
Baptist World Alliance
Boulos Basili – priest, first priest to enter the Egyptian Assembly in 1971 after winning a free election in his district Shoubra, in Cairo, Egypt; served in the parliament until 1975
Mitro Repo – Finnish Orthodox Christian priest, member of the European Parliament from 2009 until 2014, elected as an independent candidate on the Social Democratic Party's ticket.
Kim Jackson - Democratic Georgia State Senator. First openly out LGBT state senator in Georgian history.
Wythe Leigh Kinsolving – Episcopal priest, essayist and campaigner for
Democratic candidates in 1910s-1930s, and against US participation in
World War II in late 1930s through 1941
James Kilbourne- Episcopal Priest, surveyor, and Democratic-Republican member of the Ohio legislature and the US House of Representatives
Charles Colson – chief counsel for President of the United States
Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973 and was one of the
Watergate Seven; maintains a variety of media channels which discuss contemporary issues from an
Evangelical Christian worldview; his views are typically consistent with a politically conservative interpretation of evangelical Christianity
Eduardo Villanueva (born 6 October 1946) – known as Bro. Eddie;[1] religious and political leader in the Philippines; 2010 Philippine presidential candidate; founder and leader of the Jesus is Lord Church[2]
Dan Johnson (1960-2017) – known as the "Pope;" Elected to the
Kentucky House of Representatives for the 49th District; Committed suicide after allegations and investigations for child molestation
Joachim Gauck – President of Germany from 2012 to 2017
Walter H. Moeller – American politician of the
Democratic party; entered a Lutheran seminary in 1935 and served as a pastor in the 1940s and after his retirement from politics
Frederick Muhlenberg – First Speaker of the US House of Representatives; 1793–1795.
Ham Tae-Young – 3rd Vice-President of the Republic of Korea, judge during the Korean Empire, Korean independence and nationalist leader
Stephanie Stahl Hamilton – Ordained PCUSA minister, Democratic member of both Arizona House of Representatives and the state senate
Kang Ryang-uk - Presbyterian Minister, Relative of Kim Il-Sung, secretary general of the Provisional People's Committee of North Korea, representative of the 1st class of the Supreme People's Assembly of Korea, Secretary of the Standing Committee, Chairman of the Korean Christian Federation, Vice-Chairman and later Chairman of the North Korean Social Democratic Party, and was twice elected as Vice-President