THE 1980s: RELIGION: DEATHS

Rev. Herbert W. Armstrong, 93, religious evangelist, broadcaster, and founder of the Worldwide Church of God, 16 January 1986.

Eugene Carlson Blake, 78, religious leader and a dominant figure in mainline Protestantism expounding the ideas of ecumenicalism, 31 July 1985.

John Patrick Cardinal Cody, 74, head of the Roman Catholic Church's largest U.S. archdiocese, Chicago, for more than fifteen years, 25 April 1982.

Terrence Cardinal Cooke, 62, Roman Catholic Church cardinal of New York City, 6 October 1983.

Dorothy Day, 83, activist, pacifist, and founder of the Catholic Worker movement, 29 November 1980.

John Francis Cardinal Dearden, 80, Roman Catholic cardinal of the archdiocese of Detroit and head of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, 1 August 1988.

Father John J. Dougherty, 78, Catholic priest and host of The Catholic Hour on radio and television, 20 March 1986.

Rev. V. Carney Hargroves, 85, former president of the American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A. and the Baptist World Alliance, 25 June 1986.

L. Ron Hubbard, 74, founder of the controversial Church of Scientology, 24 January 1986.

Rabbi Mordecai Menahem Kaplan, 102, founder of the Jewish Reconstructionist movement and author of several prominent works on Jewish history, 8 November 1983.

Spencer W. Kimball, 90, leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 5 March 1985.

Rev. Martin Luther King Sr., 84, pastor, civil rights leader, and father of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., 11 November 1984.

Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, 67, conservative Roman Catholic Church cardinal for the archdiocese of Boston, 17 September 1983.

C. Kilmer Myers, 65, politically active radical theologian and Episcopal bishop, 27 June 1981.

Patrick Aloysius Cardinal O'Boyle, 91, Roman Catholic cardinal of the archdiocese of Washington, D.C., and former director of Catholic Charities, 10 August 1987.

Hryhorij Osijchuk, 87, prelate of the Ukranian Church and founder of Saint Pokrova's Ukranian Cathedral in Chicago, 13 February 1985.

Rev. Jeanette Ridlon Piccard, 86, high-altitude balloonist, scientist, and Episcopal priest, 17 May 1981.

H. M. S. Richards, 90, founder of the international radio broadcast The Voice of Prophecy, 24 April 1985.

Rev. Ernest Edwin Ryden, 94, Lutheran minister, journalist, and hymnologist who wrote and translated more than forty hymns, 1 January 1981.

Rev. Francis August Schaeffer, 72, evangelical theologian and leading scholar of fundamentalist Protestantism, 15 May 1984.

Lawrence Joseph Cardinal Shehan, 86, liberal Roman Catholic Church cardinal and civil rights advocate, 26 August 1984.

Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill, 89, Episcopal bishop and the first president of the National Council of Churches, 11 May 1980.

Rabbi Seymour Siegel, 60, theologian and religious liberal Jew who helped shape contemporary Conservative Jewish theology, 24 February 1988.