Office Current officer   1 Vice President of the United States Joe Biden (D) RC 2 Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R) RC 3 President pro tempore of the Senate Orrin Hatch (R) LDS 4 Secretary of State John Kerry (D) RC 5 Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Lew (D) OJ 6 Secretary of Defense Ash Carter (D) ?? 7 Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch (D) ?? 8 Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell (D) ?? 9 Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack (D) RC
RC=Roman Catholicism:	Orders from Rome could take precedence	(as claimed in 2012 by GOP candidate Rick Santorum and others [cf])
OJ=Orthodox Judaism	Orders from Israel could take precedence	(as indicated by then GOP House Majority Leader Eric Cantor [cf])
LDS=Latter-Day Saints (Morman)	-	-
??=No declared religion	-	-