List of Chief Rabbis of the United Hebrew Congregations

The following list of Chief Rabbis of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth gives information regarding the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom, which is represented through the mainstream majority Orthodox community of the United Kingdom (as the oldest and original denomination), and various other Orthodox communities located within the Commonwealth of Nations. The Chief Rabbi's full title is the "Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth". His title and position has historically, since 1758, been considered to be the Jewish community in Britain's equivalent of the Archbishop of Canterbury.[1]

List


№ Image Name Term Title Notes Reason for termination
1 Aaron Hart 1704 – 1756 Rabbi of the Great Synagogue Died in office
2 Hart Lyon 1758 – 1764 Rabbi of the Great Synagogue Resigned
3 Tevele Schiff 1765 – 1766 Chief Rabbi Rabbi appointed by
the Great Synagogue
4 Meshullam Solomon 1765 – 1780 Chief Rabbi Appointed in opposition
by Hambro and the
New Synagogues;
return to Hamburg
confirmed the primacy
of David Tevele Schiff
5 Tevele Schiff 1780 – 1791 Chief Rabbi Died in office
1791 – 1802 Post vacant
6 Solomon Hirschell 1802 – 1842 Chief Rabbi Died in office
7 Nathan Marcus Adler 1845 – 1890 Chief Rabbi
8 Hermann Adler 1891 – 1911 Chief Rabbi Appointed
delegate Chief Rabbi
in 1879 due to failing
health of his father
9 Joseph Hertz 1913 – 1946 Chief Rabbi Died in office
10 Israel Brodie 1948 – 1965 Chief Rabbi Retired
11 Immanuel Jakobovits 1966 – 1991 Chief Rabbi knighted 1981
life peer 1988		 Retired
12 Jonathan Sacks 1991 – 2013 Chief Rabbi knighted 2005
life peer 2009		 Retired
13 Ephraim Mirvis 2013 – present Chief Rabbi Currently serving

See also

References
  1. https://chiefrabbi.org/history-chief-rabbinate/

Further reading
  • Meir Persoff, Faith Against Reason: Religious Reform and the British Chief Rabbinate 1840-1990, London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2008 ISBN 0853036705
  • Meir Persoff, Hats in the Ring: Choosing Britain’s Chief Rabbis from Adler to Sacks, Academic Studies Press, 2013 ISBN 1618112694
  • Benjamin J. Elton, Britain's Chief Rabbis and the Religious Character of Anglo-Jewry, 1880–1970, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009 ISBN 0719079659
  • Danny Rich, What is Wrong with the Chief Rabbi's Job?, Manna, Summer 2009
  • Raymond Apple (2009), The British Chief Rabbinate; and other articles
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