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Abrosima ? - 341 Persian Christian priest and martyr.
Abraham of Arrazd 5th century An Armenian priest and a disciple of the Leontine martyrs.
Abraham Armand before 1827- after 1827 One of the first Catholic missionaries to arrive in the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1827.
Abdisho 298-345 A member of the Church of the East, was a deacon and martyr.
Absadah 300 - ? Priest and martyr of the early 4th century.
Abram Joseph Ryan February 5, 1838 – April 22, 1886 American poet, Catholic newspaper editor, orator, and former Vincentian.
Abraham a Sancta Clara July 2, 1644 – December 1, 1709 A Catholic preacher in Austria.
Abraham Kidunaia between c. 290-296-between c. 360-366 a Syriac Christian hermit and priest. He is venerated as a saint in Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy.
Acacius of Sebaste 3rd century - 304 4th-century Christian priest and hieromartyr who lived in Sebaste, Armenia, during the Diocletianic Persecution.
Adamnán of Iona 624 – 704 An abbot of Iona Abbey (r. 679–704), hagiographer, statesman, canon jurist, and saint. He was the author of the Life of Columba (Latin: Vita Columbae), probably written between 697 and 700.
Æthelwold of Farne 7th century A late 7th-century hermit and priest who lived on Inner Farne, off the coast of the English county of Northumberland.
Agapetus 6th century A deacon of the church of Hagia Sophia at Constantinople (about 500). He was a reputed tutor of Justinian, and author of a series of exhortations in seventy-two short chapters addressed around 527 to Justinian (Patrologia Graecae, LXXXVI, 1153–86).
Agathangelus of Rome ? - 312 Roman deacon and disciple of Clement of Ancyra, was a martyr during the reign of emperor Diocletian.
Agricola 466 – 485 An Arvernian noble and son of the Western Roman Emperor Avitus.
Alban of Mainz 4th century - 5th century A Catholic priest, missionary, and martyr in the Late Roman Empire.
Aldred the Scribe before and after 970 Tenth-century priest, otherwise known only as Aldred, who was a provost of the monastic community of St. Cuthbert at Chester-le-Street in 970.
Alexis Bachelot 22 February 1796 – 5 December 1837 French priest known for being the first Prefect Apostolic of the Sandwich Islands.
Alfred Magill Randolph August 31, 1836 – April 6, 1918 The first bishop of Southern Virginia in The Episcopal Church.
Alger of Liège 1055-1131 A Belgian clergyman and canonist from Liège, author of several notable works.
Alopen ? - 635 The first recorded Assyrian Christian missionary to have reached China, during the Tang dynasty.
Amabilis of Riom ? - 475 A French saint. Sidonius Apollinaris brought Amabilis to serve at Clermont. He served as a cantor in the church of Saint Mary at Clermont and as a precentor at the cathedral of Clermont and then as a parish priest in Riom.
Amphibalus ? - 25 June 304 Early Christian priest said to have converted Saint Alban to Christianity.
Antonio Vivaldi 4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741 Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music.
Antipater of Bostra early 5th century - late 5th century A Greek prelate who served as Metropolitan bishop of Bostra in the Roman province of Arabia and was one of the foremost critics of Origen.
Andeolus 208 an alleged Christian missionary martyred in Gaul.
Anthimus of Rome ? - 303 a Christian saint. His life is largely composed of legend. He is said to have been born in Bithynia.
Antipope Felix II before 355 - 22 November 365 An archdeacon of Rome, was installed as Pope in 355 AD after the Emperor Constantius II banished the reigning Pope, Liberius, for refusing to subscribe to a sentence of condemnation against Saint Athanasius.
Athanasius ofAlexandria 5th century A presbyter of the church in that city, and a son of Isidora, the sister of Cyril of Alexandria.
Augustine of Canterbury early 6th century – most likely 26 May 604 A Christian monk who became the first archbishop of Canterbury in the year 597. He is considered the "Apostle to the English".
Avitus of Braga 5th century An early fifth-century literary priest of Braga Portugal, who travelled to consult with Augustine and attend the Council of Jerusalem in 415 that found against Pelagius.
Avitus I of Clermont 525 - 600 A Bishop of Clermont in the 6th century.
Beda Chang 1905 – November 11, 1951 Chinese Jesuit priest who was martyred after being tortured during a wave of persecution by the communist government.
St. Bracchio ? - 576 A French abbot. Bracchio had been a Thuringian nobleman who had served in the court of Sigiswald of Clermont. Gregory of Tours writes that Bracchio’s name meant “bear’s whelp” in the Germanic language.
Cælin 7th century Chaplain and one of four brothers named by Bede as active in the early Anglo-Saxon Church. The others were Cedd, Chad, and Cynibil.
Caecilius of Elvira 1st century a Christian missionary of the 1st century, during the Apostolic Age.
Caesarius of Terracina 3rd century a deacon of Africa, martyred at Terracina in Italy.
Caius, Presbyter of Rome 3rd century A Christian author who lived and wrote towards the beginning of the 3rd century.
Chandra Fernando August 9, 1942 – June 6, 1988 A priest from the town of Baticaloa in minority Tamil-dominated eastern province of Sri Lanka. He was known for his human rights activism. He was assassinated by unknown men on June 6, 1988.
Chrysanthus and Daria 3rd century – 283.AD Saints of the Early Christian period. Their names appear in the Martyrologium Hieronymianum, an early martyrs list, and a church in their honour was built over their reputed grave in Rome.
Chrysippus of Jerusalem 5th century A Christian priest and ecclesiastical writer who was active during the middle of the 5th century. He is best known as an author of homiletic literature.
Coifi 7th century A priest recorded by Bede in the Ecclesiastical History of the English People as having presided over the temple at Goodmanham in the Northumbria in 627.
Constantius of Lyon ? - 480 A cleric from what is now the Auvergne in modern-day France, who wrote the Vita Germani, or Life of Germanus, a hagiography of Germanus of Auxerre.
Ctesiphon 1st century Christian missionary of the 1st century, during the Apostolic Age. He evangelized the town of Bergi, Vergi(s), or Vergium, identified as Berja, and is said to have become its first bishop, but the Diocese of Vergi was probably only founded around 500.
Cristóbal Diatristán de Acuña 1597-1676 Spanish Jesuit missionary explorer.
Cuana of Kilcoonagh 6th century An early Christian missionary active in the northeast of the parish of Ballymacward, County Galway, sometime around or after 500. He was the founder of the church at Kilcoonagh.
Cynibil 7th century One of four Northumbrian brothers named by Bede as prominent in the early Anglo-Saxon Church. The others were Chad of Mercia, Cedd and Caelin.
Cynidr 6th century A 6th-century Welsh Catholic pre-congregational saint of South Wales and first bishop of Glasbury, Powys, he was the son of St Gwladys, grandson of King Brychan.
Damien of Molokai 3 January 1840 – 15 April 1889 A Belgian missionary who traveled to Molokaʻi and died after contracting leprosy in December of 1884 and died 5 years later.
Daniele Comboni 15 March 1831 – 10 October 1881 An Italian Catholic prelate who served as Vicar Apostolic of Central Africa from 1877 until his death in 1881. He worked in the missions in Africa and was the founder of both the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus and the Comboni Missionary Sisters.
David Bauer November 2, 1924 – November 9, 1988 Canadian ice hockey player and coach, educator and Catholic priest. He was a member of the Basilians, and established a program to develop players for the Canada men's national ice hockey team.
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus 28 October c. 1466 – 12 July 1536 Dutch Christian humanist, Catholic priest and theologian, educationalist, satirist, and philosopher.
Donal O'Sullivan 1890 - 5 July 1916 Irish priest and chaplain in the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Rifles killed during the Battle of the Somme.
Edward McKendree Bounds August 15, 1835 – August 24, 1913 An American author, attorney, and member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South clergy.
Eddie Doherty October 30, 1890 – May 4, 1975 An American newspaper reporter, author and Oscar-nominated screenwriter. Twice-widowed, he married once more to Catherine de Hueck Doherty, founder of the Madonna House Apostolate, and later was ordained a priest in the Melkite Greek Catholic Church.
Elias of Palestine 3rd century An early Christian martyr. A priest, Elias was one of four Christians who led Mass for the persecuted Christians condemned to work in the Palestinian quarries in the wake of the Diocletianic Persecution.
Elmer W. Heindl June 14, 1910 – July 17, 2006 An American U.S. Army chaplain during the Second World War. Enlisting in 1942, Heindl served in the Pacific theater, including Guadalcanal, New Britain, Bougainville, Manila and the Philippines. He became one of the most highly decorated chaplains of the war.
Emmeran M. Bliemel 29 September 1831 – 31 August 1864 Benedictine Catholic priest who died in the Battle of Jonesborough during the American Civil War.
Eugippius 460 - 535 A disciple and the biographer of Saint Severinus of Noricum.
Eugene Mattioli 30 May 1931 - ? An Italian missionary, who was the longest serving Catholic missionary in Arabia and completed 60 years of service in the Vicariate and retired on 30 June 2018. He is one of the people credited with establishing the presence of the Catholic Church in the Arabian Peninsula.
Euphrasius of Illiturgis 1st century Christian missionary of the 1st century, during the Apostolic Age.
Eutyches of Constantinople c. 380 – c. 456 A presbyter and archimandrite at Constantinople. He first came to notice in 431 at the First Council of Ephesus, for his vehement opposition to the teachings of Nestorius.
Felix, Fortunatus, and Achilleus 212 3rd-century Christian saints who suffered martyrdom during the reign of Caracalla. Felix, a priest, Fortunatus and Achilleus, both deacons, were sent by Irenaeus, to Valence, to convert the locals.
Félix Caballero before 1812 - 1840 Dominican priest. He played an important part in the history of the missions of Baja California, and also the opening up of the route to Tucson, Arizona.
Fountain E. Pitts July 4, 1808 – May 22, 1874 An American Methodist minister and Confederate chaplain. He established Methodist missions in Brazil and Argentina in 1835–1836. During the American Civil War, he was a chaplain and colonel in the Confederate States Army, and he became known as the "Fighting Parson". After the war, he was the first pastor of the McKendree Church (later known as the West End United Methodist Church) in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. He also grew poppies to make opium.
Frances Xaiver 7 April 1506 – 3 December 1552 a Catholic missionary and saint who co-founded the Society of Jesus and, as a representative of the Portuguese Empire, led the first Christian mission to Japan.
Francis Trasuns October 16, 1864 – April 6, 1926 Latgalian priest, theologian and politician. He was a member of the State Duma of the Russian Empire (in 1906) and a member of the Latvian parliament (1922–1926).
Francisco Fernández Carvajal 1938 - ? A Spanish Roman Catholic priest in the Opus Dei Prelature and author of several books.
Franz Justus Rarkowski June 8, 1873 – February 9, 1950 The Catholic military bishop of Nazi Germany.
Gaius Vettius Aquilinus Juvencus ? - 330 A Roman Christian poet from Hispania who wrote in Latin.
Geminus of Antioch fl. c. AD 230–240 a Christian priest and writer of the early 3rd century AD.
Gennadius of Massilia ? - 496 a 5th-century Christian priest, monk, and historian best-known work is De Viris Illustribus ("Of Famous Men"), a biography of over 90 contemporary significant Christians, which continued a work of the same name by Jerome.
Georg Joseph Kamel 12 April 1661 – 2 May 1706 Jesuit missionary, pharmacist and naturalist known for producing the first comprehensive accounts of Philippine flora and fauna and for introducing Philippine nature to the European learned world.
Georges Lemaître 17 July 1894 – 20 June 1966 Belgian physicist and Astronomer. Proposed what would become known as the Big Bang Theory.
Germanus of Granfelden 612 - 675 the first abbot of Moutier-Grandval Abbey and Swiss martyr.
Gregor Johann Mendel 20 July 1822 - 6 January 1884 Austrio-Czech Augustinian friar and founder of the modern science of genetics.
Henry Cyril Dieckhoff 1869-1950 Russian Catholic priest and linguist.
Hesychius of Cazorla 1st century Christian missionary of the 1st century, during the Apostolic Age. He evangelized the town of Carcere, Carteia, or Carcesi, identified as Cazorla, became its first bishop, and was martyred there by stoning at La Pedriza.
Hesychius of Jerusalem 450s - ? A Christian priest and exegete, active during the first half of the fifth century.
Hilary the Deacon before and after 355 A Sardinian deacon of the Roman church. In 355, along with Lucifer of Cagliari, Eusebius of Vercelli, and Pancratius, he was directed by Pope Liberius to plead for Athanasian orthodoxy before Constantius II at the Council of Milan.
Horacio Villamayor de la Costa May 9, 1916 – March 20, 1977 A Filipino Jesuit priest, historian and academic. He was the first Filipino Provincial Superior of the Society of Jesus in the Philippines, and a recognized authority in Philippine and Asian culture and history.
Hugh O'Flaherty 28 February 1898 – 30 October 1963 Irish Catholic priest, a senior official of the Roman Curia and a significant figure in the Catholic resistance to Nazism. During the Second World War, O'Flaherty was responsible for saving 6,500 Allied soldiers and Jews. His ability to evade the traps set by the German Gestapo and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) Chief Herbert Kappler earned him the nickname "The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican".
Huna of Thorney 7th century A seventh century priest and hermit.
Indaletius 1st century Christian missionary of the 1st century, during the Apostolic Age. He evangelized the town of Urci (today Pechina), near the present-day city of Almería, and became its first bishop. He may have been martyred at Urci.
Ignatius of Loyola 23 October 1491 – 31 July 1556 A Basque Spaniard Catholic priest and theologian, who, with six companions, founded the religious order of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), and became its first Superior General, in Paris in 1541.
Ivan Mikhailovich Martinov 7 October 1821, – 26 April 1894, Russian Jesuit priest. After his conversion to Catholicism and consequent exile, he placed his vast knowledge of Slavic culture at the service of a better understanding between the Russian Orthodox and Catholic Churches.
Ivan Sergeyevich Gagarin 1 August 1814 - 19 July 1882 Russian Jesuit, known also as Jean-Xavier after his conversion from Orthodoxy to Roman Catholicism.
Isaac Taylor Tichenor November 11, 1825 – December 2, 1902 A pastor and a planter, was President of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama, now known as Auburn University, from 1872 to 1881.
Itō Mancio 1569 – 13 November 1612 A Japanese Jesuit, head of the Tenshō embassy; the first Japanese diplomatic mission to Europe, and a Catholic priest.
J. William Jones 25 September 1836 – 17 March 1909 An American Southern Baptist preacher and writer who became known for his evangelism and devotion to the Lost Cause of the Confederacy. During the American Civil War of 1861–1865, the newly ordained Jones was a Confederate chaplain and conducted many revival meetings. Later, he became a campus minister at several universities and in his final years, chaplain for the United Confederate Veterans.
Jacob of Tsurtavi 5th century A 5th-century Georgian religious writer and priest from Tsurtavi, then the major town of Gogarene and the Lower Iberia.
James, Azadanus and Abdicius ? - April 10, 380 Martyrs of the Christian Church. James was a priest and Azadanus and Abdicius deacons.
James Battle Avirett March 12, 1835 – February 16, 1912 An American Confederate chaplain and author. He was the first chaplain commissioned to serve in the Confederate States Army in 1861.
James Petigru Boyce January 11, 1827 – December 28, 1888 An American pastor, theologian, professor, chaplain, and a principle founder of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
James Edwin Coyle March 23, 1873 – August 11, 1921 A Catholic priest who was murdered in Birmingham, Alabama, by a Ku Klux Klan member for performing an interracial marriage.
Jean de Mayol de Lupé January 21, 1873 - June 28, 1955 French priest and military chaplain of the French Volunteer Legion, then of the SS Charlemagne Division during the Second World War.
Jean-Pierre Pernin February 22, 1822 – October 9, 1909 a French Roman Catholic priest, who came to the United States in 1864 as a missionary, working in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. As Catholic pastor of Peshtigo, Wisconsin, he survived the Peshtigo fire on October 8–9, 1871.
St. Jerome c. 342–347 – 30 September 420 Early Christian priest, confessor, theologian, translator, and historian.
Jim Borst 3 August 1932 – 5 September 2018 a Dutch Roman Catholic missionary of Saint Joseph's Missionary Society of Mill Hill, commonly called Mill Hill Missionaries.
José Eduardo de Cárdenas 1765–1821 priest, theologist, politician, poet, Latin professor and writer of New Spain (now Mexico).
Josef Meinrad Bisig 2 September 1952 - ? A Swiss traditionalist Catholic priest, and co-founder and first superior general of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter. He was originally a member of the Society of Saint Pius X but left when founder Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre illicitly consecrated four bishops.
José María de Yermo y Parres 10 November 1851 – 20 September 1904 Mexican Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Servants of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and of the Poor.
Johannes Czerski 12 May 1813 – 22 December 1893 A German clergyman, one of the founders of German Catholicism.
John J. Brown before and after June 16, 1948 An American Roman Catholic priest and educator. A Blackfoot man, he was the first full-blooded Native American ordained to the Catholic priesthood.
John the Deacon ? - 500 A deacon in the Church of Rome during the pontificate of Pope Symmachus (498–514). He is known only from an epistle he wrote to a Senarius, a vir illustris who had asked him to explain aspects of Christian initiatory practice.
John Cowper Granbery December 5, 1829 - April 1, 1907 An American Confederate chaplain and bishop of the Southern Methodist Episcopal church.
John Augustus Tolton April 1, 1854 – July 9, 1897 African American who served as first openly Black Catholic priest in the United States, ordained in Rome in 1886. He was preceded by the Healy brothers, Catholic priests who passed as White.
John Francis Reuel Tolkien 16 November 1917 – 22 January 2003 An English Roman Catholic priest and the eldest son of J. R. R. Tolkien.
John Bannon 29 December 1829 - 14 July 1913 An Irish Catholic Jesuit priest who served as a Confederate chaplain during the American Civil War. He was renowned as an orator.
Fr. John M. Corridan 1911 - 1984 A Jesuit priest who fought against corruption and organized crime on the New York City waterfront. He was the inspiration for the character of "Father Barry" in the classic film On the Waterfront.
Joseph Raya 15 August 1916 – 10 June 2005 A Lebanese-born Melkite Catholic prelate who served as Archeparch of Akka from 1968 to 1974. He was also a theologian and civil rights advocate.
Justin the Confessor ? - 269 a Christian martyr in the Roman Empire. He is honored as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church.
Kevin Thomas Kenney December 29, 1959 - ? An American bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. Currently an auxiliary bishop for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis.
Landelin 625 – 686 A French nobleman and Deacon in Vaux, Bapaume.
Lawrence Zhang Wen-Chang 1920 – February 5, 2012 An Apostolic Administrator sent to the Laogai system by the People's Republic of China.
Laurence of Canterbury ? - 2 February 619 The second Archbishop of Canterbury, and member of the Gregorian mission sent from Italy to England to Christianise the Anglo-Saxons from their native Anglo-Saxon paganism.
Leucadius of Bayeux 6th century The first bishop of Bayeux whose presence is attested.
Leopold Moczygemba October 18, 1824 – February 23, 1891 A Polish priest and founder of the first Polish-American parish in Panna Maria and Bandera, Texas.
Leslie John Thomas Costello February 16, 1928 – December 10, 2002 A founder of the Flying Fathers exhibition hockey team.
Liberatus of Carthage 6th century An archdeacon and the author of an important history of the Nestorian and Monophysite controversies in the 5th- and 6th-century Christian Church.
Loup de Bayeux before 440 - 474 Saint Loup or sometimes saint Leu was a bishop of Bayeux between 440 and 470.
Lubentius c. 300 – c. 370 S Christian saint, venerated by the Catholic Church. A patron saint of the boatmen on the River Lahn.
Lu Zhengxiang 12 June 1871 - 15 January 1949 Chinese diplomat and a Roman Catholic priest and monk. He was twice Premier of the Republic of China and led his country's delegation at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.
Malchion before and after 272 a Church Father and presbyter of Antioch during the reigns of Emperors Claudius II and Aurelian, was a well-known rhetorician most notable for his key role in the 272 AD deposition of the heretical bishop of Antioch, Paul of Samosata.
Manveus of Bayeux ? - 480 Wealthy Frenchman and the sixth bishop of Bayeux.
Martin Adolf Bormann 14 April 1930 – 11 March 2013 Son of Nazi Martin Bormann who works against Holocaust denial.
Martin Stanislaus Brennan July 23, 1845 – October 3, 1927 An American Roman Catholic priest and scientist known for writing books about religion and science. Brennan wrote science textbooks for children as well as general interest books on scientific topics and was a popular lecturer in Europe and Palestine as well as in his hometown, St. Louis, Missouri.
Mary Bastian 1948 – 6 January 1985 Sri Lankan Tamil human rights activist and Catholic priest who was shot and killed along with 10 other civilians on January 6, 1985, during the Sri Lankan Civil War, allegedly by the Sri Lankan Army.
Martin Luther 10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546 A German priest, theologian, author, hymnwriter, professor, Augustinian friar, and founder of Lutherianism.
Maurontius of Douai 634 – May 5, 702 A French nobleman and Benedictine abbot. His parents were Rictrude and Adalbard.
Maximin Alff 24 July 1866 – 17 May 1923 German reverend and a member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary in 1887, He was for a time professor of philosophy at Miranda de Ebro, Spain. He came to Honolulu from Spain, arriving on 25 October 1894.
Maximilian Kolbe 8 January 1894 – 14 August 1941 Conventual Franciscan friar who was murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp.
Mellitus 500s - 24 April 624 The first bishop of London in the Saxon period, the third archbishop of Canterbury, and a member of the Gregorian mission sent to England to convert the Anglo-Saxons from their native paganism to Christianity.
Michael James Nazir-Ali 19 August 1949 - ? A Pakistani-born British Roman Catholic priest and former Anglican bishop. He served as the 106th Bishop of Rochester from 1994 to 2009 and, before that, as Bishop of Raiwind in Pakistan. He is currently the director of the Oxford Centre for Training, Research, Advocacy and Dialogue.
Mike Schmitz December 14, 1974 - ? American Catholic priest, speaker, author, and podcaster.
Miguel Zugastegui 14 February 1773 – 3 May 1809 Criollo Franciscan friar and revolutionary, who took part in early stages of the independence movement of Mexico. He is honored in Mexico as a martyr of the struggle for independence from Spain.
Musaeus of Marseilles ? - c. 450 A priest from Massilia. According to Gennadius, he died "during the reign of Leo and Majorian", between 457 and 461. We know very little about his life.
Mychal Fallon Judge May 11, 1933 – September 11, 2001 An American Franciscan friar and Catholic priest who served as a chaplain to the New York City Fire Department. While serving in that capacity, he was killed, becoming the first certified fatality of the September 11 attacks.
Nicholas Kao Se Tseien 15 January 1897 - 11 December 2007 Chinese Trappist priest in Hong Kong who was the oldest-living Catholic priest and also the oldest person ever to have had a cataract operation.
Nicolas Aubry before 1604 - after 1611 French priest who accompanied Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts to Acadia in 1604.
Nimatullah Kassab 1808 – 14 December 1858 A Lebanese monk, priest and scholar of the Maronite Church. He has been declared a saint by the Catholic Church.
Noetus before and after 230 presbyter of the church of Asia Minor about AD 230. He was a native of Smyrna, he became a prominent representative of the particular type of Christology now called modalistic monarchianism or patripassianism.
Pablo de Anda Padilla July 5, 1830 – June 29, 1904 Catholic priest and founder of the Minim Daughters of Mary Immaculate.
Patroclus of Bourges 496–576 A Merovingian ascetic, who was a native of the province of Berry, France. A deacon at Bourges, he withdrew to become a hermit.
Paulus Orosius c. 375/385 – c. 420 AD A Roman priest, historian and theologian, and a student of Augustine of Hippo.
Paulinus of Milan before 411 - after 422 The notary of Ambrose of Milan, and his biographer. His work is the only life of Ambrose based on a contemporary account, and was written at the request of Augustine of Hippo.
Peter Matthias Abbelen 8 August 1843 – 24 August 1917 The Roman Catholic vicar general of the Milwaukee Archdiocese and later the spiritual director for the School Sisters of Notre Dame in Milwaukee.
Peter Whelan 1802 – February 6, 1871 An Irish-born Catholic priest who was a chaplain for both Confederate troops and Union prisoners of war during the American Civil War. Whelan previously served as a missionary in North Carolina and pastor of Georgia's first Catholic parish, and twice served as administrator of the entire Diocese of Savannah.
Photinus of Thessalonica 5th century A disciple of Acacius, Patriarch of Constantinople and a deacon in the Church.
Pierre Coudrin 1 March 1768 – 1837 A French religious priest. He was the founder of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, a religious institute in the Roman Catholic Church known for its missionary work in Hawaii, Africa, Europe, Central America and the Pacific Islands.
Pusai, Shemon bar Sabbae and Chusdazat ? - 344 A group of Christian priest and bishops and companion in martyrdom with Simeon Barsabae and others.
Richard Owen Currey July 28, 1816 - February 17, 1865 An American academic, physician and Presbyterian minister. He was a professor at the University of Nashville and the publisher of agrarian and medical journals. During the American Civil War, he was a surgeon and chaplain for the Confederate States Army.
Robert Barron November 19, 1959 - ? American prelate of the Catholic Church who has served as bishop of the Diocese of Winona–Rochester since 2022.
Robert Franklin Bunting May 9, 1828 - September 19, 1891 An American Presbyterian minister and Confederate chaplain.
Romanus of Condat 390 - 460 A saint of the fifth century. At the age of thirty five, he decided to live as a hermit in the area of Condat. His younger brother Lupicinus followed him there. They became leaders of a community of monks that included Eugendus.
Sabellius 215 third-century priest and theologian who most likely taught in Rome, but may have been a North African from Libya.
Samuel J. Keit 1834–1916 A state representative in South Carolina. He was a carpenter. He served in the Confederate Army. He was a Republican and served in the South Carolina House of Representatives during the Reconstruction era from 1870 to 1877. He represented Darlington County, South Carolina. In 1878 he became a Democrat.
Sergius of Reshaina ? - 536 A physician and priest during the 6th century. He is best known for translating medical works from Greek to Syriac, which were eventually, during the Abbasid Caliphate of the late 8th- & 9th century, translated into Arabic.
Sigo ? - 580 A Burgundian abbot of the sixth century. He is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church, an Orthodox saint and the reputed founder of the Abbey of Saint-Seine and in the Orthodox Church.
Solanus Casey November 25, 1870 – July 31, 1957 American religious priest of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin and Declared venerable by Pope John Paul II.
Stephen of Ripon 7th century - 8th century The author of the eighth-century hagiographic text Vita Sancti Wilfrithi ("Life of Saint Wilfrid").
Telfair Hodgson March 14, 1840 – September 11, 1893 An American Episcopal priest and academic administrator. He was the dean of the Theological Department at Sewanee: The University of the South from 1878 to 1893, and vice chancellor from 1879 to 1890. He was a co-founder and the managing editor of The Sewanee Review.
Tissa Balasuriya August 29, 1924 – January 17, 2013 Sri Lankan Roman Catholic priest and theologian. He was educated at St Patrick's College, Jaffna.
Torquatus of Acci 1st century Christian missionary of the 1st century, during the Apostolic Age. He evangelized the town of Acci, identified as Guadix, and became its first bishop.
Theodoret ? - October 22, 362 A Greek-speaking Syrian Christian priest who died a martyr in Antioch during the reign of Emperor Julian the Apostate.
Thomas Aquinas c. 1225 – 7 March 1274 Italian Dominican friar and priest, the foremost Scholastic thinker, as well one of the most influential philosophers and theologians in the Western tradition. He was from the county of Aquino in the Kingdom of Sicily.
Thomas Bloomer Balch February 28, 1793 - February 14, 1878 A Presbyterian pastor during the American Civil War.
Thomas Roussel Davids Byles 26 February 1870 – 15 April 1912 An English Catholic priest who was a passenger aboard the RMS Titanic on its maiden voyage when it sank after striking an iceberg during the night of 14–15 April 1912. He was reported as being amidst the throng of trapped passengers on the ship's rear deck in its final moments of descent, audibly praying.
Valère de Langres ? - 22 October 411 Archdeacon of Langres, was arrested by a group of Vandals led by a man named Chrocus, beaten and beheaded.
Vigilantius around 370 - 400 A Christian priest and presbyter.
Vincent Robert Capodanno Jr. February 13, 1929 – September 4, 1967 A Catholic priest and Maryknoll Missioner killed in action while serving as a Navy chaplain with a Marine Corps infantry unit during the Vietnam War.
Vinkenti Peev 11 November 1873 - March 2, 1941 A Bulgarian Catholic priest, Capuchin friar and Vicar Apostolic of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sofia and Plovdiv.
Vladimir Sergeyvich Pecherin 27 June 1807 – 28 April 1885 Russian nihilist, Romantic poet, and Classicist, who later became a Roman Catholic priest in 19th-century Ireland.
Walter Joseph Ciszek November 4, 1904 – December 8, 1984 A Polish-American Jesuit priest of the Russian Greek Catholic Church who clandestinely conducted missionary work in the Soviet Union between 1939 and 1963.
Waningus ? - 683 A Merovingian count and royal official under Clotaire III. He assisted Wandrille in establishing Fontenelle Abbey, and later founded Fécamp Abbey. He is recognized as a Christian saint.
William Henry Foote December 20, 1794 – November 22, 1869 An American Presbyterian minister in Virginia and North Carolina. He served as a Confederate chaplain during the American Civil War of 1861-1865. He wrote several books about the history of Presbyterians in the American South.
William Joseph Chaminade 8 April 1761 – 22 January 1850 A French Catholic priest who survived persecution during the French Revolution and later founded the Society of Mary, usually called the Marianists, in 1817. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 3 September 2000.
Wolfgang Rösch 25 August 1959 - ? A German Catholic priest. He was from 2010 to 2013 Dean of Wiesbaden at the parish St. Bonifatius.
Youakim Moubarac July 20, 1924 – May 24, 1995 An Islamologist, an Arabist and a disciple of the Orientalist Louis Massignon and of philosopher Louis Gardet and a Maronite priest.

Piero Folli – Italian antifascist parish priest

Joseph Freinademetz – Missionary to China, canonized

Mariano Gagnon – Franciscan friar and author who helped indigenous people resist the Shining Path in Peru

Georg Gänswein – Secretary to Pope Benedict XVI

Augustine Geve – Solomon Islands Catholic priest and politician, murdered in 2002

Lionel Groulx – French Canadian Nationalist

Jacques Hamel – Priest killed in the 2016 Normandy church attack.

Ignatius of Loyola – Founder of the Society of Jesus

Saint Arnold Janssen – Missionary

Marcelline Jayakody, Sri Lankan Sinhala author, composer of hymns, author, journalist

Francis Kilcoyne (died 1985) – President of Brooklyn College

Georges-Henri Lévesque – Sociologist

Gerard Timoner III – The current master of the Dominican Order

Eustáquio van Lieshout – Missionary in Brazil

Michael J. McGivney – Founder of the Knights of Columbus

Heinrich Maier – Head of an important resistance group against Nazi Germany

Claudio Monteverdi – Italian composer

Columba Murphy – Involved in gaining an Edict of Toleration for Hawaiian Catholics

Nemesi Marqués Oste – Rector in Andorra and political figure there

William Pope – One of John Henry Newman's converts: seceded from Anglicanism to the Church of Rome in 1853

Jean-Baptiste de La Salle – A founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools

Mihalj Šilobod Bolšić – Roman Catholic priest, mathematician, writer, and musical theorist primarily known for writing the first Croatian arithmetic textbook Arithmatika Horvatzka (published in Zagreb, 1758)

David Michael Moses – American priest and musician

Thomas Joseph White – American priest and bluegrass musician.

Ghevont Alishan – Priest of the Armenian Catholic Church who designed Armenia's first modern flag.


Ed Evanko – Actor who became a Ukrainian Catholic priest.

Louis Massignon – Scholar of Islam who transferred to the Melkite Greek Catholic Church after converting to Catholicism and later became a priest.

Alphonse Mingana – Chaldean Catholic Church priest and Orientalist.

Catholic exorcists

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