List of Catholic priests

• This is an incomplete list of Catholic priests.

Roman Catholic Church

name	image	dates	description
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.
Caecilius of Elvira		1st century	a Christian missionary of the 1st century, during the Apostolic Age.
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.
Euphrasius of Illiturgis		1st century	Christian missionary of the 1st century, during the Apostolic Age.
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.
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.
Andeolus		208	an alleged Christian missionary martyred in Gaul.
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.
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.
Acacius of Sebaste		3rd century - 304
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.
Sabellius		215	third-century priest and theologian who most likely taught in Rome, but may have been a North African from Libya.
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.
Geminus of Antioch		fl. c. AD 230–240	a Christian priest and writer of the early 3rd century AD.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
Abrosima		? - 341	Persian Christian priest and martyr.
St. Jerome		c. 342–347 – 30 September 420	early Christian priest, confessor, theologian, translator, and historian.
Aldred the Scribe		before and after 970
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.
José Eduardo de Cárdenas		1765–1821	priest, theologist, politician, poet, Latin professor and writer of New Spain (now Mexico).
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.
Alexis Bachelot		22 February 1796 – 5 December 1837	French priest known for being the first Prefect Apostolic of the Sandwich Islands.
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.
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.
Prince Ivan Sergeyevich Gagarin		1 August 1814; - 19 July 1882	Russian Jesuit, known also as Jean-Xavier after his conversion from Orthodoxy to Roman Catholicism.
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.
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.
Pablo de Anda Padilla		July 5, 1830 – June 29, 1904	Catholic priest and founder of the Minim Daughters of Mary Immaculate.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Henry Cyril Dieckhoff		1869-1950	Russian Catholic priest and linguist.
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