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  • Cristóbal Diatristán de Acuña
    Cristóbal Diatristán de Acuña
    Cristóbal Diatristán de Acuña was a Spanish missionary and explorer.He was born at Burgos. He was admitted a Jesuit in 1612, and afterwards sent on mission work to Chile and Peru, where he became rector of the college of Cuenca...

     – Jesuit
    Society of Jesus
    The Society of Jesus is a Catholic male religious order that follows the teachings of the Catholic Church. The members are called Jesuits, and are also known colloquially as "God's Army" and as "The Company," these being references to founder Ignatius of Loyola's military background and a...

     explorer
  • Alger of Liège
    Alger of Liège
    Alger of Liège , known also as Alger of Cluny and Algerus Magister, was a learned clergyman from Liège who lived in the first half of the 12th century....

     – History
  • Abraham Armand
    Abraham Armand
    Abraham Armand was a priest of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, a religious order of the Roman Catholic Church. He was one of the first Catholic missionaries to arrive in the Kingdom of Hawaii, arriving in 1827 in the company of Alexis Bachelot, Patrick Short and six lay...

     – Missionary to Hawaii
  • Alexis Bachelot
    Alexis Bachelot
    Alexis John Augustine Bachelot was a Roman Catholic priest best known for his tenure as the first Prefect Apostolic of the Sandwich Islands. In that role, he led the first Catholic mission to the Kingdom of Hawaii....

     – Missionary to Hawaii
  • Mary Bastian
    Mary Bastian
    Father Mary Bastian was a minority Tamil Human Rights activist and local Roman Catholic parish priest from Sri Lanka...

     – Murdered activist in Sri Lanka
    Sri Lanka
    Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...

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  • Father David Bauer – Hockey player turned priest.
  • Father Josef Bisig
    Father Josef Bisig
    Josef Meinrad Bisig, F.S.S.P. is a Swiss Roman Catholic priest, and co-founder and first superior general of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter. He was originally a member of the Society of St...

     – Formerly of the Society of St. Pius X
    Society of St. Pius X
    The Society of Saint Pius X is an international Traditionalist Catholic organisation, founded in 1970 by the French archbishop Marcel Lefebvre...

    , currently of the recognized Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter
    Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter
    The Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter is a traditionalist Catholic Society of Apostolic Life of priests and seminarians in good standing with the Holy See.-Canonical status:...

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  • Martin Adolf Bormann
    Martin Adolf Bormann
    Martin Adolf Bormann is the eldest of ten children of Martin Bormann and the godson of Adolf Hitler.-Early life:...

     – Son of Nazi Martin Bormann
    Martin Bormann
    Martin Ludwig Bormann was a prominent Nazi official. He became head of the Party Chancellery and private secretary to Adolf Hitler...

     who works against Holocaust denial
    Holocaust denial
    Holocaust denial is the act of denying the genocide of Jews in World War II, usually referred to as the Holocaust. The key claims of Holocaust denial are: the German Nazi government had no official policy or intention of exterminating Jews, Nazi authorities did not use extermination camps and gas...

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  • Vincent Robert Capodanno - U.S. Navy
    United States Navy
    The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...

     chaplain
    Military chaplain
    A military chaplain is a chaplain who ministers to soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines and other members of the military. In many countries, chaplains also minister to the family members of military personnel, to civilian noncombatants working for military organizations and to civilians within the...

     and Medal of Honor
    Medal of Honor
    The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government. It is bestowed by the President, in the name of Congress, upon members of the United States Armed Forces who distinguish themselves through "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his or her...

     recipient.
  • Francisco Fernández Carvajal
    Francisco Fernández Carvajal
    Francisco Fernández Carvajal , born 1938 in Granada, is a priest in the Opus Dei Prelature and author of several books...

     – Author and Opus Dei
    Opus Dei
    Opus Dei, formally known as The Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei , is an organization of the Catholic Church that teaches that everyone is called to holiness and that ordinary life is a path to sanctity. The majority of its membership are lay people, with secular priests under the...

     priest.
  • Solanus Casey
    Solanus Casey
    Venerable Bernard Francis Casey was born in Oak Grove, Wisconsin. A Capuchin priest, Casey was known for his great faith, humility, and role as spiritual counselor and intercessor...

     – Declared venerable
    Venerable
    The Venerable is used as a style or epithet in several Christian churches. It is also the common English-language translation of a number of Buddhist titles.-Roman Catholic:...

     by Pope John Paul II
    Pope John Paul II
    Blessed Pope John Paul II , born Karol Józef Wojtyła , reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of Vatican City from 16 October 1978 until his death on 2 April 2005, at of age. His was the second-longest documented pontificate, which lasted ; only Pope Pius IX ...

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  • William Joseph Chaminade
    William Joseph Chaminade
    William Joseph Chaminade or Guillaume-Joseph Chaminade, now called by his liturgical title of Blessed Chaminade , was a French Roman Catholic priest who survived persecution during the French Revolution. He founded the Society of Mary, also called the Marianists, in 1817...

     – Faced persecution for being a priest during the French Revolution
    French Revolution
    The French Revolution , sometimes distinguished as the 'Great French Revolution' , was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France and Europe. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years...

  • Daniel Comboni
    Daniel Comboni
    Daniel Comboni was a Roman Catholic missionary and Saint.-Early life:He was born at Limone sul Garda, Brescia, Italy, into a family of cultivators employed by one of the rich local proprietors...

     – Missionary to Africa, canonized.
  • John M. Corridan
    John M. Corridan
    Reverend Fr. John M. Corridan was a Jesuit priest who fought against corruption and organized crime on the New York City waterfront. He was the inspiration for the character of "Father Barry" in the classic film On the Waterfront....

     – Anti-corruption activist.
  • Horacio de la Costa
    Horacio de la Costa
    Horacio V. de la Costa was the first Filipino Provincial Superior of the Society of Jesus in the Philippines, and a recognized authority in Philippine and Asian culture and history....

     – Filipino Jesuit and writer.
  • Les Costello
    Les Costello
    Fr. Lester John Thomas Costello was a Canadian ice hockey player and Catholic priest.He was born in South Porcupine, Ontario, a neighbourhood of Timmins, and played hockey as a teenager, eventually joining Toronto's St. Michael's Majors in the 1940s, winning two Memorial Cups with the team in 1945...

     – A founder of the Flying Fathers
    Flying Fathers
    The Flying Fathers are a group of Canadian Roman Catholic priests who regularly tour North America as a hockey team, playing exhibition games against local teams to raise money for charities....

     exhibition hockey team.
  • Peter Coudrin
    Peter Coudrin
    Peter Coudrin or Pierre Coudrin of France was the founder of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, a religious order of the Roman Catholic Church famous for its missionary work in Hawaii...

     – Faced persecution during French Revolution, later became a missionary to Hawaii.
  • James Coyle
    James Coyle
    James Edwin Coyle was a Roman Catholic priest who was murdered in Birmingham, Alabama.-Early life:James Coyle was born in Drum, County Roscommon to Owen Coyle and his wife Margaret Durney. He attended Mungret College in Limerick and the Pontifical North American College in Rome...

     – A murdered Catholic priest.
  • Johannes Czerski - German clergyman who resigned his vicariate to found German Catholicism
    German Catholics
    The German Catholics were a schismatic sect formed in December 1844 by German dissidents from the Roman Catholic Church, under the leadership of Johannes Ronge.-History:...

  • Father Damien
    Father Damien
    Father Damien or Saint Damien of Molokai, SS.CC. , born Jozef De Veuster, was a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium and member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, a missionary religious order...

     – Canonized, worked with lepers.
  • Chandra Fernando
    Chandra Fernando
    Reverend Chandra Fernando was a priest from the town of Baticaloa in minority Tamil-dominated eastern province of Sri Lanka. He was known for his human rights activism. He was assassinated by unknown men on June 6, 1988.-Biography:...

     – Murdered human rights activist.
  • Piero Folli
    Piero Folli
    Don Piero Folli was an Italian antifascist parish priest.-Biography:Since the years in seminary he shows his opening and sensitivity to social and political problems, sympathizing with workers fights of 1898.In open reaction against any abuse of power and injustice , declared antifascist, since...

     – Italian antifascist parish priest.
  • Joseph Freinademetz
    Joseph Freinademetz
    Saint Joseph Freinademetz as a member of the Society of the Divine Word, was a missionary in China.-Early life:...

     – Missionary to China, canonized.
  • Georg Gänswein
    Georg Gänswein
    Georg Gänswein is a German Priest of the Roman Catholic Church, and the personal secretary of Pope Benedict XVI...

     – Secretary to Pope Benedict XVI
    Pope Benedict XVI
    Benedict XVI is the 265th and current Pope, by virtue of his office of Bishop of Rome, the Sovereign of the Vatican City State and the leader of the Catholic Church as well as the other 22 sui iuris Eastern Catholic Churches in full communion with the Holy See...

  • Augustine Geve
    Augustine Geve
    Augustine Geve was a Solomon Islands Catholic priest and politician.He was first elected to Parliament in the December 2001 general election, as MP for South Guadalcanal, at the time of the violent ethnic conflict on Guadalcanal...

     - Solomon Islands Catholic priest and politician, murdered in 2002
  • Lionel Groulx
    Lionel Groulx
    Lionel-Adolphe Groulx was a Roman Catholic priest, historian and Quebec nationalist. -Early life and ordination:Groulx was born at Chenaux, Quebec, Canada, the son of a farmer and lumberjack, and died in Vaudreuil, Quebec. After his seminary training and studies in Europe, he taught at Valleyfield...

     – French Canadian Nationalist.
  • Ignatius of Loyola
    Ignatius of Loyola
    Ignatius of Loyola was a Spanish knight from a Basque noble family, hermit, priest since 1537, and theologian, who founded the Society of Jesus and was its first Superior General. Ignatius emerged as a religious leader during the Counter-Reformation...

     – Founder of the Society of Jesus
    Society of Jesus
    The Society of Jesus is a Catholic male religious order that follows the teachings of the Catholic Church. The members are called Jesuits, and are also known colloquially as "God's Army" and as "The Company," these being references to founder Ignatius of Loyola's military background and a...

  • Mancio Ito
    Mancio Ito
    The Tenshō embassy was an embassy sent by the Japanese Christian Lord Ōtomo Sōrin to the Pope and the kings of Europe in 1582...

     – First official Japanese emissary to Europe, after that he became a Jesuit priest.
  • Saint Arnold Janssen
    Arnold Janssen
    Saint Arnold Janssen, S.V.D., was a Roman Catholic priest and missionary, and is venerated as a saint. He is best known for founding the Society of the Divine Word, a Roman Catholic missionary religious congregation, also known as the Divine Word Missionaries, as well as two congregations for...

     – Missionary
  • Mychal F. Judge
    Mychal F. Judge
    Mychal F. Judge, OFM was a Roman Catholic priest of the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor, Chaplain of the Fire Department of New York and the first certified fatality of the September 11, 2001 attacks.-Early years:Robert Emmet Judge was the son of Irish Catholic immigrants from County Leitrim and...

     – Chaplain, 9-11 victim.
  • Georg Joseph Kamel
    Georg Joseph Kamel
    Georg Joseph Kamel , also known as Camellus, was a Jesuit missionary and botanist to the Philippines. The genus Camellia was named in his honour by Carolus Linnaeus....

     – Jesuit botanist of whom the Camellia
    Camellia
    Camellia, the camellias, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae. They are found in eastern and southern Asia, from the Himalaya east to Korea and Indonesia. There are 100–250 described species, with some controversy over the exact number...

     is named after. Compiled works on Philippine medicinal plants, which is well known in pharmacology
    Pharmacology
    Pharmacology is the branch of medicine and biology concerned with the study of drug action. More specifically, it is the study of the interactions that occur between a living organism and chemicals that affect normal or abnormal biochemical function...

  • Georges Lemaître
    Georges Lemaître
    Monsignor Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître was a Belgian priest, astronomer and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain. He was the first person to propose the theory of the expansion of the Universe, widely misattributed to Edwin Hubble...

     – Physisct and Astronomer. Proposed what would become known as the Big Bang
    Big Bang
    The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological model that explains the early development of the Universe. According to the Big Bang theory, the Universe was once in an extremely hot and dense state which expanded rapidly. This rapid expansion caused the young Universe to cool and resulted in...

     Theory.
  • Georges-Henri Lévesque
    Georges-Henri Lévesque
    Georges-Henri Lévesque, was a Canadian Dominican priest and sociologist.Born in Roberval, Quebec, the son of Georges Lévesque and Laura Richard, he was ordained into the priesthood in 1928...

     – Sociologist.
  • Father Eustáquio van Lieshout
    Eustaquio van Lieshout
    Blessed Eustáquio van Lieshout was a Dutch missionary in Brazil, and a religious and priest of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary....

     – Did work in Brazil
  • Michael J. McGivney – Founder of the Knights of Columbus
    Knights of Columbus
    The Knights of Columbus is the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organization. Founded in the United States in 1882, it is named in honor of Christopher Columbus....

  • Columba Murphy
    Columba Murphy
    Columba Murphy of Ireland, was a religious brother and later priest of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, a religious order of the Roman Catholic Church. He was one of the first Catholic missionaries to arrive in the Kingdom of Hawaii during the persecution by Kaahumanu,...

     – Involved in gaining an Edict of Toleration
    Edict of Toleration
    An edict of toleration is a declaration made by a government or ruler and states that members of a given religion will not be persecuted for engaging in their religious practices and traditions...

     for Hawaiian Catholics
  • Hugh O'Flaherty
    Hugh O'Flaherty
    Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, CBE was an Irish Roman Catholic priest and senior official of the Roman Curia. During World War II, he was responsible for saving 6,500 Allied soldiers and Jews...

     – World War II
    World War II
    World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

     hero.
  • Nemesi Marqués Oste
    Nemesi Marqués Oste
    Nemesi Marquès Oste is the personal representative to Andorra of the Bishop of Urgell, who is one of the co-princes of Andorra. He is a Roman Catholic priest, and has been rector of Bellestar, a village of 55 inhabitants.- See also :...

     – Rector in Andorra and political figure there.
  • Jean-Baptiste de la Salle
    Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
    Saint Jean-Baptiste de La Salle or John Baptist de La Salle was a priest, educational reformer, and founder of Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools...

     – A founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools
    Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools
    The Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools is a Roman Catholic religious teaching congregation, founded in France by Saint Jean-Baptiste de la Salle and now based in Rome...

  • Abraham a Sancta Clara
    Abraham a Sancta Clara
    Abraham a Sancta Clara , Austrian divine, was born at Kreenheinstetten, near Messkirch. His lay name was Johann Ulrich Megerle ....

     – Catholic preacher in Austria.
  • Francis Xavier
    Francis Xavier
    Francis Xavier, born Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta was a pioneering Roman Catholic missionary born in the Kingdom of Navarre and co-founder of the Society of Jesus. He was a student of Saint Ignatius of Loyola and one of the first seven Jesuits, dedicated at Montmartre in 1534...

     – Jesuit missionary to Japan

Eastern Catholic Churches

  • Ghevont Alishan
    Ghevont Alishan
    Father Ghevont Alishan was an ordained Armenian Catholic priest, historian and a poet. He was awarded by the Legion of Honour of the French Academy , an honorary member of the Asian Society of Italia, Archeological Society of Moscow, Venice Academy and Archeological Society of Saint-Petersburg.He...

     – Priest of the Armenian Catholic Church
    Armenian Catholic Church
    |- |The Armenian Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic Church sui juris in union with the other Eastern Rite, Oriental Rite and Latin Rite Catholics who accept the Bishop of Rome as spiritual leader of the Church. It is regulated by Eastern canon law...

     who designed Armenia's first modern flag.
  • Walter Ciszek
    Walter Ciszek
    Rev. Walter Ciszek, S.J. was a Polish-American Jesuit priest known for his clandestine missionary work in the Soviet Union between 1939 and 1963....

     – Byzantine Rite member of the Society of Jesus
    Society of Jesus
    The Society of Jesus is a Catholic male religious order that follows the teachings of the Catholic Church. The members are called Jesuits, and are also known colloquially as "God's Army" and as "The Company," these being references to founder Ignatius of Loyola's military background and a...

     who was imprisoned at Lubyanka (KGB)
    Lubyanka (KGB)
    The Lubyanka is the popular name for the headquarters of the KGB and affiliated prison on Lubyanka Square in Moscow. It is a large building with a facade of yellow brick, designed by Alexander V...

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  • Eddie Doherty
    Eddie Doherty
    Edward J. "Eddie" Doherty was a famed American newspaper reporter, best-selling author, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, co-founder of the Madonna House Apostolate, and later ordained a priest in the Melkite Greek Catholic Church....

     – Ordained a priest in the Melkite Greek Catholic Church
    Melkite Greek Catholic Church
    The Melkite Greek Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See as part of the worldwide Catholic Church. The Melkites, Byzantine Rite Catholics of mixed Eastern Mediterranean and Greek origin, trace their history to the early Christians of Antioch, Syria, of...

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  • Ed Evanko – Actor who became a Ukrainian Catholic priest.
  • Nimattullah Kassab Al-Hardini
    Nimattullah Kassab Al-Hardini
    Saint Nimattullah Kassab Al-Hardini , a Lebanese Roman Catholic saint and a member of the Maronite Church.-Miracles of Saint Nimatullah Kassab Hardini:...

     – Catholic saint.
  • Louis Massignon
    Louis Massignon
    Louis Massignon was a French scholar of Islam and its history. Although a Catholic himself, he tried to understand Islam from within and thus had a great influence on the way Islam was seen in the West; among other things, he paved the way for a greater openness inside the Catholic Church towards...

     – Scholar of Islam who transferred to the Melkite Greek Catholic Church
    Melkite Greek Catholic Church
    The Melkite Greek Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See as part of the worldwide Catholic Church. The Melkites, Byzantine Rite Catholics of mixed Eastern Mediterranean and Greek origin, trace their history to the early Christians of Antioch, Syria, of...

     after converting to Catholicism and later became a priest.
  • Alphonse Mingana
    Alphonse Mingana
    Alphonse Mingana; was an Assyrian theologian, historian, Syriacist, orientalist and a former priest who is best known for collecting and preserving the Mingana Collection of ancient Middle Eastern manuscripts at Birmingham...

     – Chaldean Catholic Church
    Chaldean Catholic Church
    The Chaldean Catholic Church , is an Eastern Syriac particular church of the Catholic Church, maintaining full communion with the Bishop of Rome and the rest of the Catholic Church...

     priest and Orientalist.
  • Youakim Moubarac
    Youakim Moubarac
    Youakim Moubarac was a Lebanese French erudite. He was an Islamologist, an Arabist and a disciple of the Orientalist Louis Massignon and of philosopher Louis Gardet...

     – Maronite Church
    Maronite Church
    The Syriac Maronite Church of Antioch is an Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See of Rome . It traces its heritage back to the community founded by Maron, a 4th-century Syriac monk venerated as a saint. The first Maronite Patriarch, John Maron, was elected in the late 7th...

     – priest and scholar.
  • Joseph Raya
    Joseph Raya
    Joseph Raya , born in Zahlé, Lebanon, was a prominent Melkite Greek Catholic archbishop, theologian, civil rights advocate and author. He served as metropolitan of Akko, Haifa, Nazareth and All Galilee from 1968 until 1974 and was particularly known for his commitment to seeking reconciliation...

     – a Melkite Greek Catholic
    Melkite Greek Catholic Church
    The Melkite Greek Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See as part of the worldwide Catholic Church. The Melkites, Byzantine Rite Catholics of mixed Eastern Mediterranean and Greek origin, trace their history to the early Christians of Antioch, Syria, of...

     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
    Candido Amantini
    Candido Amantini was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a full-time exorcist. He also taught Sacred Scripture and moral theology. He produced a book entitled Il Mistero di Maria, about the Virgin Mary....

  • Gabriele Amorth
    Gabriele Amorth
    Gabriele Amorth is an Italian Roman Catholic priest and an exorcist of the Diocese of Rome who claims to have cleansed tens of thousands of people of evil spirits. Controversially, he believes that practising yoga is satanic and leads to evil just like reading JK Rowling’s Harry Potter...

     – Founder of the International Association of Exorcists
    International Association of Exorcists
    International Association of Exorcists is a Roman Catholic organization that was founded in 1990 by six priests including the world-famous exorcist of Rome, Father Gabriele Amorth and Father Jeremy Davies.-History:...

  • Father Raymond J. Bishop
    Raymond J. Bishop
    Father Raymond J. Bishop was a Roman Catholic priest. He became one of the several priests involved in the case of exorcizing a boy from St. Louis, Missouri, who was allegedly possessed after using a Ouija board...

  • William S. Bowdern
    William S. Bowdern
    Father William S. Bowdern, S.J. was a Jesuit Roman Catholic priest in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. He was the author of The Problems of Courtship and Marriage printed by Our Sunday Visitor in 1939. He was a graduate of and taught at St. Louis University High School; he also taught at St....

     – Case he did became basis for film The Exorcist
    The Exorcist (film)
    The Exorcist is a 1973 American horror film directed by William Friedkin, adapted from the 1971 novel of the same name by William Peter Blatty and based on the exorcism case of Robbie Mannheim, dealing with the demonic possession of a young girl and her mother’s desperate attempts to win back her...

  • Jeremy Davies
  • Pellegrino Ernetti
    Pellegrino Ernetti
    Father Marcello Pellegrino Ernetti was an Italian Roman Catholic Benedictine priest and is the most famous exorcist who worked in the Venice area.- Early life :...

     – Music scholar and writer
  • Father Angelo Fantoni
    Angelo Fantoni
    Father Angelo Fantoni was an Italian priest and exorcist who worked at Monte San Savino near Arezzo, Italy.He was born in Italy on May 2, 1903 to Pietro Annunziata Fantoni...

  • Father Jose Antonio Fortea
    Jose Antonio Fortea
    José Antonio Fortea Cucurull is a Spanish writer and calligrapher, and a Roman Catholic priest and exorcist of the diocese of Alcalá de Henares .-Education and work:...

  • Giancarlo Gramolazzo
    Giancarlo Gramolazzo
    Father Giancarlo Gramolazzo was an Italian Roman Catholic priest who served as an exorcist. He was the president of the International Association of Exorcists until his death....

     – Current president of the International Association of Exorcists
  • Walter Halloran
    Walter Halloran
    Father Walter Halloran, SJ was a Jesuit Roman Catholic Christian priest who, at the age of twenty-six, assisted in the exorcism of Robbie Mannheim, a thirteen year old Lutheran boy in St. Louis, Missouri who it is said became possessed after using a Ouija board...

  • Father Peter Heier
    Peter Heier
    Father Peter Heier , S.V.D. was a Roman Catholic priest of Hague, North Dakota.Peter Heier was the son of George and Magdalena Heier. He was born in Kleinliebental, Grossliebental, Ukraine. His family immigrated to the United States and settled in North Dakota...

  • Father Edward Hughes
  • Lawrence Kenny
    Lawrence Kenny
    Father Lawrence Kenny was a Roman Catholic Jesuit priest who was also an exorcist.He participated in the exorcism, in St. Louis, Missouri, of a thirteen year old Lutheran boy who became possessed after using a Ouija board. This was the case on which William Peter Blatty based his novel The...

     – Involved in case linked to the film The Exorcist.
  • Father Alfred Kunz
    Alfred Kunz (Catholic priest)
    Father Alfred Kunz, , was a Catholic priest who was found with his throat slit in his Roman Catholic church in Dane, Wisconsin. His murder has never been solved...

  • Father Matteo La Grua
    Matteo La Grua
    Father Matteo La Grua is an Italian Roman Catholic priest and exorcist of the Fransican Order. He is an author of several books in Italian, including La preghiera di liberazione....

  • James J. LeBar
    James J. LeBar
    James J. LeBar was a Roman Catholic priest who was the chief exorcist of the Archdiocese of New York in the United States.- Early career :...

     – New York exorcist consulted with regards to films.
  • Malachi Martin
    Malachi Martin
    Malachi Brendan Martin Ph.D. was a Catholic priest, theologian, writer on the Catholic Church, and professor at the Vatican's Pontifical Biblical Institute. He held three doctorates and was the sole author of sixteen books covering religious and geopolitical topics, which were published in eight...

     – Writer on unusual subjects as well as an exorcist.
  • Father Theophilus Riesinger
    Theophilus Riesinger
    Theophilus Riesinger a Roman Catholic priest, who later became an exorcist, was born in Germany and later resided in Marathon, Wisconsin, in the United States....

  • Father Rosario Stroscio
    Rosario Stroscio
    Father Rosario Stroscio a Roman Catholic Salesian priest and exorcist.In 1997, Father Stroscio was called in by the Archbishop of Calcutta, Archbishop Henry Sebastian D'Souza to pray over the 87 year old hospitalized Mother Teresa who had been hospitalized for heart problems. Mother Teresa was...

  • Archbishop Ron Feyl - Presiding Archbishop of The Sacred Order of Saint Michael the Archangel

For more exorcists see :Category:Catholic exorcists.

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