Since the [[Transelman Church of Saints]] was founded in 650 AL, it has been collectively led by a democratically central [[Transelman Council of Saints|Council of Saints]]. In practice, the council has always had a figurehead that took a public-facing leadership position, both nationally and internationally. ![[leaders_transelmany.bmp | 350]] ## **650 AL - 678 AL: [[Yemisi Fayowa]]** --- ![[fayowa.bmp | 250]] The founder of [[Transelmany|Transelmany]] and the greatest [[Hagioism|Hagioist]] leader the world has ever seen. Yemisi Fayowa created [[Hagioism|Orthodox Hagioism]] when she wrote the book [[Deadline]] and she established the first ever Hagioist government in the world when her apostles captured and occupied the Royal Academy City of Muntbatten, declaring the foundation of the Transelman People’s Republic in 651 AL. [[History of Transelmany — Foundation & Protracted Rebellion (648-658 AL)|Seven years later]], her apostles were able to drive out royalists entirely from South Elmany, and she avoided war with the North by brokering the Haal Treaty, adding [[The Green|the Green]] into Transelmany a few months later in 663. Tragedy would strike in 672 after a failed assassination attempt left her severely injured and unable to continue her duties. Zainab Garba and Gordon Alastair would co-lead in her absence. ### **678 AL - 683 AL: [[Gordon Alastair]]** --- ![[alastair.bmp | 250]] Yemisi died in 678 AL and Zainab Garba decided to cede full leadership of the council to Gordon, who was always viewed as Yemisi’s successor. [[Marie Adonai]] was proposed as the new leader but she did not feel ready to lead the council at that time. Gordon’s tenure was relatively stable and had no major events that threatened the security of Transelmany, but he did oversee numerous new canonizations as the first generation of Saints left their posts to be replaced by much younger Archbishops, in a program initiated by Zainab to pre-emptively avoid ossification in the country’s leadership. It was known as Cultural Revolution. This along with some adjustments to the political economy of Transelmany (brought on by the fact that the original theories of Orthodox Hagioism that Yemisi expounded on Deadline were being synthesized according to resolutions put forward by Yemisi in her later writings regarding the contradictions she encountered in practice when trying to build hagioism in South Elmany) resulted in its state ideology officially being characterized as Hagioism-Fayowaism. ### **683 AL - present: [[Marie Adonai]]** --- ![[adonai.bmp | 250]] In 683 AL, Marie Adonai assumed leadership of the council. Her tenure in the much younger Council of Saints has been marked by radical changes to formerly long-standing Transelman policies, a gradual shift that has led to the characterization of her leadership as embodying a new Hagioist ideology known as Marie Adonai Thought, largely put forward in contributions to Hagioist theory written by Saint Marie between 676 and 680 AL. Marie Adonai Thought today is highly popular among some of the younger citizens, and is sometimes incorrectly called Adonaism, although Marie herself still identifies as a Hagioist-Fayowaist.