1.Metropolitan Christopher (1928–2010):
Born in Galveston, Texas, on December 25, 1928, this American religious leader, who became the first U.S.-born bishop to serve a North American diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church, died on August 18 in Chicago.
2.Mordechai Eliyahu (1929–2010):
Born in Jerusalem, British Palestine, on March 12, 1929, this Israeli religious leader, who was an outspoken proponent of religious Zionism and a staunch defender of Jewish settlements in Palestinian territories, died on June 7 in the city of his birth.
3.Muḥammad Ḥusayn Faḍlallāh (1935–2010):
Born in Al-Najaf in 1935, this prominent Iraqi Shīʿite cleric died on July 4 in Beirut.
4. Moshe Greenberg (1928–2010):
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 10, 1928, this American-born Israeli rabbi and biblical scholar, who was best known for his scholarship of the Hebrew Bible, in which he integrated traditional rabbinic scriptural commentary with the historical-critical method of religious studies, died on May 15 in Jerusalem.
5.Moshe Hirsch (1923–2010):
Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1923, this American-born ultra-Orthodox Jewish rabbi who was a leading figure in Neturei Karta, a politically active anti-Zionist ultra-Orthodox sect that opposes the existence of a sovereign Jewish state, died on May 2 in Jerusalem.
6.Henryk Jankowski (1936–2010):
Born in Starogard Gdanski on December 18, 1936, this Polish Roman Catholic priest, who supported the pivotal Polish trade union Solidarity in its 1980s resistance to the communist government, died on July 12 in Gdansk. Notably celebrating masses in 1980 for striking shipyard workers, Jankowski earned the sobriquet “the chaplain of Solidarity.”
7.Abel Tendekayi Muzorewa (1925–2010):
Born in Old Umtali, Southern Rhodesia [now Zimbabwe] on April 14, 1925, the former prime minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia (June to December 1979) who oversaw the traditional period from white to black rule, died on April 8 in Harare.
8.Raimon Panikkar (1918–2010):
Born in Barcelona on November 3, 1918, this Spanish Roman Catholic theologian, who was a Jesuit priest and an advocate of interreligious dialogue, died on August 26 in Tavertet.
9. Nico Smith (1929–2010):
Born in Kroonstad, Orange Free State [now Free State], South Africa on April 11, 1929, this minister and activist, who challenged apartheid as the first white man to be allowed to live (1985–89)—in defiance of the Group Areas Act—in a black community, died on June 19 in Pretoria.
10.Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi (1928–2010):
Born in Salim al-Sharqiyyah, Sawhaj governorate, Egypt on October 28, 1928, this Egyptian Muslim cleric, who served as grand mufti of Egypt (1986–96) and as grand imam of al-Azhar mosque and grand sheikh of al-Azhar University (1996–2010) in Cairo, died on March 10 in Riyadh.
