DAVID MISCAVIGE
The Chairman is the highest ecclesiastical Scientology official.
While most religions believe that they are the only totally valid religion, Scientologists seem to believe that they are the only new religion since Christianity thus not considering Islam, Bahai, Mormonism, Christian Science, and many others. The RTC is a non-profit organization formed in 1982 to preserve, maintain and protect the Scientology religion. The Chairman is the highest ecclesiastical Scientology official.
The Chairman is the highest ecclesiastical Scientology official. The Scientologists are notorious for their bellicosity regarding critics from the outside and reformers from the inside. They initiate an extraordinary amount of litigation and they are under frequent attacks by individuals and governments.
David Miscavige is the leader of the Church of Scientology and Captain of the Sea Organization. His official title is Chairman of the Board of the Religious Technology Center (RTC), a corporation that controls the trademarks and copyrights of Dianetics and Scientology. Miscavige was a deputy to Church founder L. Ron Hubbard during his time working as a Commodore's Messenger while he was a teenager. He rose to a leadership position by the early 1980s and was named Chairman of the Board of RTC in 1987, the year after Hubbard's death. Official church biographies describe Miscavige as "the ecclesiastical leader of the Scientology religion".