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List of Catholic priests

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This is an incomplete list of Catholic priests.

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Roman Catholic Church

  • Cristóbal Diatristán de Acuña – Jesuit explorer
  • Alger of Liège – History
  • Abraham Armand – Missionary to Hawaii
  • Alexis Bachelot – Missionary to Hawaii
  • Antonio Vivaldi - Italian baroque composer
  • Nicolas Aubry - French priest
  • Tissa Balasuriya - Sri Lankan Sinhala theologian
  • Mary Bastian – Murdered activist in Sri Lanka.
  • Father David Bauer – Hockey player turned priest.
  • Father Josef Bisig – Formerly of the Society of St. Pius X, currently of the recognized Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter.
  • Martin Adolf Bormann – Son of Nazi Martin Bormann who works against Holocaust denial.
  • Martin Stanislaus Brennan - Astronomer and author
  • Vincent Robert Capodanno - U.S. Navy chaplain and Medal of Honor recipient.
  • Francisco Fernández Carvajal – Author and Opus Dei priest.
  • Solanus Casey – Declared venerable by Pope John Paul II.
  • William Joseph Chaminade – Faced persecution for being a priest during the French Revolution
  • Daniel Comboni – Missionary to Africa, canonized.
  • John M. Corridan – Anti-corruption activist.
  • Horacio de la Costa – Filipino Jesuit and writer.
  • Les Costello – A founder of the Flying Fathers exhibition hockey team.
  • Peter Coudrin – Faced persecution during French Revolution, later became a missionary to Hawaii.
  • James Coyle – A murdered Catholic priest.
  • Johannes Czerski - German clergyman who resigned his vicariate to found German Catholicism
  • Father Damien – Canonized, worked with lepers.
  • Chandra Fernando – Murdered human rights activist.
  • Piero Folli – Italian antifascist parish priest.
  • Joseph Freinademetz – Missionary to China, canonized.
  • 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.
  • Elmer Heindl - American WWII chaplain
  • Ignatius of Loyola – Founder of the Society of Jesus
  • Mancio Ito – First official Japanese emissary to Europe, after that he became a Jesuit priest.
  • Saint Arnold Janssen – Missionary
  • Marcelline Jayakody, Sri Lankan Sinhala author, composer of hymns, author, journalist
  • Mychal F. Judge – Chaplain, 9-11 victim.
  • Georg Joseph Kamel – Jesuit botanist of whom the Camellia is named after. Compiled works on Philippine medicinal plants, which is well known in pharmacology
  • Georges Lemaître – Physisct and Astronomer. Proposed what would become known as the Big Bang Theory.
  • Georges-Henri Lévesque – Sociologist.
  • Father Eustáquio van Lieshout – Did work in Brazil
  • Michael J. McGivney – Founder of the Knights of Columbus
  • Columba Murphy – Involved in gaining an Edict of Toleration for Hawaiian Catholics
  • Hugh O'Flaherty – World War II hero.
  • Nemesi Marqués Oste – Rector in Andorra and political figure there.
  • Wolfgang Rösch – Vicar general of Limburg
  • Jean-Baptiste de la Salle – A founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools
  • Abraham a Sancta Clara – Catholic preacher in Austria.
  • Francis Xavier – Jesuit missionary to Japan
  • Vinkenti Peev - Bulgarian Capuchin monk
  • Thomas Byles - English priest who stayed on board the sinking RMS Titanic hearing confessions
  • Errol Allan Ramon Wever-Gomes - Author - Did work in Medellín, Colombia, Sta. Cruz, Aruba and Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  • Eastern Catholic Churches

  • Ghevont Alishan – Priest of the Armenian Catholic Church who designed Armenia's first modern flag.
  • Walter Ciszek – Byzantine Rite member of the Society of Jesus who was imprisoned at Lubyanka (KGB).
  • Eddie Doherty – Ordained a priest in the Melkite Greek Catholic Church.
  • Ed Evanko – Actor who became a Ukrainian Catholic priest.
  • Nimattullah Kassab Al-Hardini – Catholic saint.
  • 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.
  • Youakim Moubarac – Maronite Church – priest and scholar.
  • Joseph Raya – a Melkite Greek Catholic priest (later archbishop) active in the U.S. civil rights movement and advocate of Israeli Christian Arabs.
  • Catholic exorcists

  • Father Ernst Alt
  • Father Candido Amantini
  • Gabriele Amorth – Founder of the International Association of Exorcists
  • Father Raymond J. Bishop
  • William S. Bowdern – Case he did became basis for film The Exorcist
  • Jeremy Davies
  • Pellegrino Ernetti – Music scholar and writer
  • Father Angelo Fantoni
  • Father Jose Antonio Fortea
  • Giancarlo Gramolazzo – Current president of the International Association of Exorcists
  • Walter Halloran
  • Father Peter Heier
  • Father Edward Hughes
  • Lawrence Kenny – Involved in case linked to the film The Exorcist.
  • Father Alfred Kunz
  • Father Matteo La Grua
  • James J. LeBar – New York exorcist consulted with regards to films.
  • Malachi Martin – Writer on unusual subjects as well as an exorcist.
  • Father Theophilus Riesinger
  • Father Rosario Stroscio
  • For more exorcists see Category:Catholic exorcists.

    References

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