Other prominent laymen were:

Each county court gave tax money to the local vestry, composed of prominent layman.

Once again individually socially prominent laymen often took the lead.

Yet by the end of 1690 most prominent laymen and clergy had come to take the oaths to the new regime, and only a tiny minority persisted as Jacobites or Nonjurors.

Chris Demetriades, a developer who is also a prominent layman in the church, agreed to pay the sum with interest, over the next six years, according to a statement issued by the Archdiocese.

At bottom, said one layman prominent in the church, "the Patriarch thought it was time for a change and he wants his own appointee, someone he is comfortable with."

Sandra Kirkpatrick's father was P. Elmo Futrell, Jr., the mayor of Pineville in the early 1960s and a prominent Baptist layman.

Anderson was a prominent evangelical layman in the Church of England serving as the first chairman of the House of Laity of the General Synod from 1970-1979.

The imam is elected by a council of prominent laymen or shaykhs.

Mort was a prominent Anglican layman.