List of Catholic priests
# 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
