List of Catholic priests

• This is an incomplete list of Catholic priests.

Roman Catholic Church

name	image	dates	description
Alger of Liège		1055-1131	A Belgian clergyman and canonist from Liège, author of several notable works.
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus		28 October c. 1466 – 12 July 1536	Dutch Christian humanist, Catholic priest and theologian, educationalist, satirist, and philosopher.
Cristóbal Diatristán de Acuña		1597-1676	Spanish Jesuit missionary explorer
Nicolas Aubry		before 1604 - after 1611	French priest who accompanied Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts to Acadia in 1604.
Antonio Vivaldi		4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741	Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music.
Alexis Bachelot		22 February 1796 – 5 December 1837	French priest known for being the first Prefect Apostolic of the Sandwich Islands.
Gregor Johann Mendel		20 July 1822 - 6 Janurary 1884	Austrio-Czech Augustinian friar and founder of the modern science of genetics.
Abraham Armand		before 1827- after 1827	One of the first Catholic missionaries to arrive in the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1827.
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.
Mike Schmitz		December 14, 1974 - ????	American Catholic priest, speaker, author, and podcaster.

• Tissa Balasuriya – Sri Lankan Sinhala theologian
• Robert Barron - American bishop
• Mary Bastian – Murdered activist in Sri Lanka
• David Bauer – Hockey player turned priest
• 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
• Jim Borst – Dutch Missionary in India since 1960
• Martin Stanislaus Brennan – Astronomer and author
• John J. Brown – Native American priest and educator.
• 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
• Daniele 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 – Murdered Catholic priest
• Johannes Czerski – German clergyman who resigned his vicariate to found German Catholicism
• Jozef De Veuster – Canonized, worked with lepers
• Chandra Fernando – Murdered human rights activist
• 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.
• Elmer Heindl – American WWII chaplain
• Ignatius of Loyola – Founder of the Society of Jesus
• Itō Mancio – 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
• Francis Kilcoyne (died 1985) – President of Brooklyn College
• Georges Lemaître – Physicist and Astronomer. Proposed what would become known as the Big Bang Theory.
• 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
• Hugh O'Flaherty – World War II hero
• Nemesi Marqués Oste – Rector in Andorra and political figure there
• Peter Pernin – Survivor and memoirist of the Peshtigo fire
• William Pope – One of John Henry Newman's converts: seceded from Anglicanism to the Church of Rome in 1853
• 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
• Mike Schmitz – American priest
• John Tolkien – son of J.R.R. Tolkien
• Francis Xavier – Jesuit missionary to Japan
• Vinkenti Peev – Bulgarian Capuchin friar
• Thomas Byles – English priest who stayed on board the sinking RMS Titanic hearing confessions
• Michael Nazir-Ali – Former prominent Anglican bishop who became Catholic and was ordained a priest on the 30th of October, 2021
• Eugine Mattioli – Longest serving Catholic missionary in Arabia
• 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.

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 – 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 – Participated in an exorcism of Roland Doe in 1949. The incident became the basis of William Peter Blatty's novel The Exorcist.
• Jeremy Davies
• Father Angelo Fantoni
• Father Jose Antonio Fortea
• Giancarlo Gramolazzo – President of the International Association of Exorcists until his death in 2010
• 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

See also

• Lists of Roman Catholics

External links

• Catholic priests weblink
• Catholic hierarchy.org
• Search Catholic Priests Online