Biographies: Selected Catholic Religious Leaders

Updated August 5, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

Selected Catholic Religious Leaders

ílfric, English writer and Benedictine monk
Abbo of Fleury, French monk at the abbey of Fleury
Absalon, Danish churchman, archbishop of Lund
Adalbert, German churchman
Ademar, French prelate
Ailly, Pierre d', French theologian and writer
Alcuin, English churchman and educator
Aleksy II, Russian Orthodox clergyman
Allouez, Claude Jean, French Jesuit missionary in Canada and the American Midwest
Amyot or Amiot, Joseph, French Roman Catholic missionary in China
Anchieta, José de, Brazilian Jesuit missionary
André, Brother, Canadian Roman Catholic mystic
Antoine, Pí¨re, Spanish priest in New Orleans
Aresson, Areson, or Arason, Jon, Icelandic churchman
Arius, Libyan theologian, founder of the Arian heresy
Arnauld, rench family involved in Jansenism
Arnold of Brescia, Italian monk and reformer
Aymer of Valence, Bishop of Winchester
Baraga, Frederic, Roman Catholic missionary to the Native Americans of Upper Michigan
Barberini, Francesco, Italian prelate and Orientalist
Bar-Hebraeus, Gregorius, Syrian scholar
Baronius, Caesar, Italian ecclesiastical historian
Bartholomew I, Orthodox patriarch of Constantinople
Beaton or Bethune, David, Scottish churchman
Bembo, Pietro, Italian humanist
Berdyaev, Nicholas, Russian theologian and religious philosopher
Berengar of Tours, French theologian
Bessarion, Byzantine humanist
Biard, Pierre, French Jesuit missionary
Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne, French prelate
Butler, Alban, English Roman Catholic priest
Cajetan, Italian prelate
Campeggio, Lorenzo, Italian churchman and diplomat, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
Capgrave, John, English author and Augustinian friar
Carpini, Giovanni de Piano, Italian traveler and Franciscan monk
Carroll, John, American Roman Catholic churchman
Cassian, John, an Eastern Christian monk and theologian who brought Eastern spirituality to the West
Challoner, Richard, English Roman Catholic prelate
Charlevoix, Pierre Franí§ois Xavier de, French Jesuit traveler and historian
Charron, Pierre, French Roman Catholic theologian and philosopher
Chaumonot, Joseph Marie, French Jesuit missionary to the New World
Cheverus, Jean Louis Anne Madeleine Lefebvre de, French churchman
Clement of Alexandria, Greek theologian
Cressy, Hugh Paulinus, English Benedictine monk
Dablon, Claude, French Jesuit missionary in North America
Damien, Father, Belgian missionary priest
David, John Baptist Mary, French missionary in the United States
De Smet, Pierre Jean, Jesuit missionary in the U.S. Pacific Northwest
Didon, Henri, French Dominican preacher and writer
Dollier de Casson, Franí§ois, priest and explorer in Canada
Duchesne, Louis Marie Olivier, French Roman Catholic ecclesiastic
Eck, Johann Maier von, German Roman Catholic theologian
Eckhart, Meister, German mystical theologian
England, John, Irish Roman Catholic churchman in America
Eusebius of Caesarea, Greek apologist and church historian
Eusebius of Nicomedia, Christian churchman and theologian
Eutyches, archimandrite in Constantinople
Faber, Frederick William, English theologian and hymn writer
Fenwick, Edward Dominic, American Roman Catholic prelate
Fleury, Claude, French ecclesiastical historian
Fonseca, Juan Rodríguez de, Spanish prelate. Chaplain to Isabella and Ferdinand
Foucauld, Charles, vicomte de, French priest and missionary in the Sahara
Gallitzin, Demetrius Augustine, American frontier missionary;
Gasparri, Pietro, Italian churchman
Gerson, John, French ecclesiastical statesman and writer
Grégoire, Henri, French priest
Gratian, Italian legal scholar
Groote, Gerard or Geert, Dutch Roman Catholic reformer
Grosseteste, Robert, English prelate
Hugel, Friedrich, Baron von, British Roman Catholic religious writer
Harnack, Adolf von, German theologian and church historian
Hecker, Isaac Thomas, American Roman Catholic priest
Hergenröther, Joseph Adam Gustav, German theologian and scholar
Hildebert of Lavardin, French churchman, bishop of Le Mans
Hincmar, Frankish canonist and theologian
Hughes, John Joseph, American Roman Catholic churchman
Ireland, John, American Roman Catholic prelate
Jacobus da Varagine, Italian hagiographer
Jansen, Cornelis, Dutch Roman Catholic theologian
Juliana of Norwich, English mystics
Kenrick, Francis Patrick, American Roman Catholic churchman
Lacombe, Albert, French Canadian Roman Catholic missionary
Lacordaire, Jean Baptiste Henri, French Roman Catholic preacher and liberal
Lactantius, Lucius Caelius Firmianus, Christian author and apologist
Lainez, Diego, Spanish theologian
Lamennais or La Mennais, Félicité Robert de, French Roman Catholic apologist and liberal
Lamy, Jean Baptiste, Roman Catholic archbishop in the U.S. Southwest
Lanfranc, Italian churchman and theologian, archbishop of Canterbury
Langton, Stephen, English prelate, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
Lathrop, Rose Hawthorne, American nun
Laval, Franí§ois Xavier de, French prelate in Canada
Lavigerie, Charles Martial Allemand, French churchman
Lefí¨vre d'Étaples, Jacques, French theologian and humanist
Loisy, Alfred Firmin, French theologian
Mabillon, Jean, French scholar
Machebeuf, Joseph Projectus, French missionary in the American Southwest
Manning, Henry Edward, English churchman
Marcion, early Christian bishop, founder of the Marcionites
Marie de l'Incarnation, French missionary
Mazzuchelli, Samuel Charles, Italian missionary in America
Mercier, Désiré Joseph, Belgian churchman
Merton, Thomas, American religious writer and poet
Migne, Jacques Paul, French publisher of theological works
Milic of Kremsier, Bohemian reformer
Molay, Jacques de, last grand master of the Knights Templars
Molina, Luis, Spanish Jesuit theologian
Newman, John Henry, English churchman, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
Nicole, Pierre, French Jansenist writer
Nikon, Russian churchman
Orosius, Paulus, Iberian priest, theologian, and historian
Ozanam, Antoine Frédéric, French Roman Catholic scholar
Pandulf, Italian churchman
Papias, early Christian theologian
Petavius, Dionysius, French Jesuit theologian and philologist
Peter Lombard, Italian theologian
Photius, Greek churchman and theologian, patriarch of Constantinople
Pire, Georges Henri, Belgian priest
Rabanus Maurus Magnentius, German scholar and theologian
Rancé, Armand Jean le Bouthillier de, French religious reformer
Richard of Saint Victor, Scottish monk and mystic
Rolle of Hampole, Richard, English religious writer
Rosmini-Serbati, Antonio, Italian theologian
Ruysbroeck, John, Roman Catholic mystic
Sabellius, Christian priest and theologian
Salvian, Christian writer of Gaul
Savonarola, Girolamo, Italian religious reformer
Serra, Junípero, Spanish Franciscan missionary in North America
Servetus, Michael, Spanish theologian and physician
Sheen, Fulton John, American Roman Catholic clergyman
Spellman, Francis Joseph, American Roman Catholic cardinal
Stepinac, Aloysius, Yugoslav prelate
Suárez, Francisco, Spanish Jesuit philosopher
Suso, Heinrich, German mystic
Tauler, Johannes, German mystic
Teresa, Mother, Roman Catholic missionary in India
Tertullian, Roman theologian and Christian apologist
Tetzel, Johann, German preacher
Theodore of Mopsuestia, Syrian Christian theologian, bishop
Thomas í Kempis, German monk
Tunstall or Tonstall, Cuthbert, English bishop
Ulfilas, Gothic bishop
Vaughan, Herbert, English churchman
Vieira, Antonio, Portuguese Jesuit orator and missionary
Vincent of Beauvais, French Dominican friar
Ward, William George, English Roman Catholic apologist
Wiseman, Nicholas Patrick Stephen, English prelate
Zumárraga, Juan de, Spanish churchman