title: List of Catholic priests
text: # List of Catholic priests
  
  This is an incomplete list of Catholic priests.
  
  ## Priests
  
  ### 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
  * Erasmus of Rotterdam – Dutch priest and philosopher
  * Nicolas Aubry – French priest
  * Tissa Balasuriya – Sri Lankan Sinhala theologian
  * 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
  * 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 – Did work in Brazil
  * Michael J. McGivney – Founder of the Knights of Columbus
  * Heinrich Maier – Head of an important resistance group against Nazi Germany
  * 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
  * 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 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)
  * Edward Stanger – Pastor at Holy Infant Catholic Church, Ballwin
  
  ### 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
  