<P> When the Supreme Court was established in 1789, the first members came from among the ranks of the Founding Fathers and were almost uniformly Protestant . Of the 113 justices who have been appointed to the court, 91 have been from various Protestant denominations, 12 have been Catholics (one other justice, Sherman Minton, converted to Catholicism after leaving the Court). Another, Neil Gorsuch, was raised in the Catholic Church but later attended an Episcopal church, though without specifying the denomination to which he felt he belonged . Eight have been Jewish and one, David Davis, had no known religious affiliation . Three of the 17 chief justices have been Catholics, and one Jewish justice, Abe Fortas, was unsuccessfully nominated to be chief justice . </P> <P> The table below shows the religious affiliation of each of the justices sitting as of August 2018: </P> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Name </Th> <Th> Religion </Th> <Th> Appt . by </Th> <Th> On the Court since </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> John Roberts (Chief Justice) </Th> <Td> Roman Catholicism </Td> <Td> G.W. Bush </Td> <Td> 2005 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Clarence Thomas </Th> <Td> Roman Catholicism </Td> <Td> G.H.W. Bush </Td> <Td> 1991 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Ruth Bader Ginsburg </Th> <Td> Judaism </Td> <Td> Clinton </Td> <Td> 1993 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Stephen Breyer </Th> <Td> Judaism </Td> <Td> Clinton </Td> <Td> 1994 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Samuel Alito </Th> <Td> Roman Catholicism </Td> <Td> G.W. Bush </Td> <Td> 2006 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Sonia Sotomayor </Th> <Td> Roman Catholicism </Td> <Td> Obama </Td> <Td> 2009 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Elena Kagan </Th> <Td> Judaism </Td> <Td> Obama </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Neil Gorsuch </Th> <Td> Raised Roman Catholic, attends Episcopal Church </Td> <Td> Trump </Td> <Td> 2017 </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th> Name </Th> <Th> Religion </Th> <Th> Appt . by </Th> <Th> On the Court since </Th> </Tr>

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