List of Catholic priests

• This is an incomplete list of Catholic priests.

Roman Catholic Church

name	image	dates	description
St. Jerome		c. 342–347 – 30 September 420	early Christian priest, confessor, theologian, translator, and historian.
Alger of Liège		1055-1131	A Belgian clergyman and canonist from Liège, author of several notable works.
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.
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus		28 October c. 1466 – 12 July 1536	Dutch Christian humanist, Catholic priest and theologian, educationalist, satirist, and philosopher.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Gregor Johann Mendel		20 July 1822 - 6 January 1884	Austrio-Czech Augustinian friar and founder of the modern science of genetics.
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.
Abraham Armand		before 1827- after 1827	One of the first Catholic missionaries to arrive in the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1827.
Emmeran M. Bliemel		29 September 1831 – 31 August 1864	Benedictine Catholic priest who died in the Battle of Jonesborough during the American Civil War.
Abram Joseph Ryan		February 5, 1838 – April 22, 1886	American poet, Catholic newspaper editor, orator, and former Vincentian.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Georges Lemaître		17 July 1894 – 20 June 1966	Belgian physicist and Astronomer. Proposed what would become known as the Big Bang Theory.
Maximilian Kolbe		8 January 1894 – 14 August 1941	Conventual Franciscan friar who was murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp.
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.
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".
Beda Chang		1905 – November 11, 1951	Chinese Jesuit priest who was martyred after being tortured during a wave of persecution by the communist government.
Lawrence Zhang Wen-Chang		1920 – February 5, 2012	An Apostolic Administrator sent to the Laogai system by the People's Republic of China.
Tissa Balasuriya		August 29, 1924 – January 17, 2013	Sri Lankan Roman Catholic priest and theologian. He was educated at St Patrick's College, Jaffna.
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.
Martin Adolf Bormann		14 April 1930 – 11 March 2013	Son of Nazi Martin Bormann who works against Holocaust denial.
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.
Robert Barron		November 19, 1959 - ?	American prelate of the Catholic Church who has served as bishop of the Diocese of Winona–Rochester since 2022.
Mike Schmitz		December 14, 1974 - ?	American Catholic priest, speaker, author, and podcaster.

• Josef Bisig – Formerly of the Society of St. Pius X, currently of the recognized Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter

• 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-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
• 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
• John Tolkien – son of J.R.R. Tolkien
• 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