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Roman Catholic Church Nicolas Aubry – French priestTissa Balasuriya – Sri Lankan Sinhala theologianRobert Barron - American bishopMary Bastian – Murdered activist in Sri Lanka David Bauer – Hockey player turned priestJosef 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 1960Martin Stanislaus Brennan – Astronomer and authorJohn 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, canonizedJohn M. Corridan – Anti-corruption activistHoracio de la Costa – Filipino Jesuit and writerLes Costello – A founder of the Flying Fathers exhibition hockey teamPeter Coudrin – Faced persecution during French Revolution, later became a missionary to HawaiiJames Coyle – Murdered Catholic priestJohannes Czerski – German clergyman who resigned his vicariate to found German Catholicism Jozef De Veuster – Canonized, worked with lepersChandra Fernando – Murdered human rights activistPiero Folli – Italian antifascist parish priestJoseph Freinademetz – Missionary to China, canonizedMariano Gagnon – Franciscan friar and author who helped indigenous people resist the Shining Path in PeruGeorg Gänswein – Secretary to Pope Benedict XVI Augustine Geve – Solomon Islands Catholic priest and politician, murdered in 2002Lionel Groulx – French Canadian NationalistJacques Hamel – Priest killed in the 2016 Normandy church attack .Elmer Heindl – American WWII chaplainIgnatius of Loyola – Founder of the Society of Jesus Itō Mancio – First official Japanese emissary to Europe, after that he became a Jesuit priestSaint Arnold Janssen – MissionaryMarcelline Jayakody , Sri Lankan Sinhala author, composer of hymns, author, journalistMychal F. Judge – Chaplain, 9-11 victimGeorg 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 – SociologistGerard Timoner III – The current master of the Dominican Order Eustáquio van Lieshout – Missionary in BrazilMichael J. McGivney – Founder of the Knights of Columbus Heinrich Maier – Head of an important resistance group against Nazi GermanyClaudio Monteverdi – Italian composerColumba Murphy – Involved in gaining an Edict of Toleration for Hawaiian CatholicsHugh O'Flaherty – World War II heroNemesi Marqués Oste – Rector in Andorra and political figure therePeter Pernin – Survivor and memoirist of the Peshtigo fire William Pope – One of John Henry Newman 's converts: seceded from Anglicanism to the Church of Rome in 1853Wolfgang 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 AustriaMike Schmitz – American priestJohn Tolkien – son of J.R.R. Tolkien Francis Xavier – Jesuit missionary to JapanVinkenti Peev – Bulgarian Capuchin friarThomas 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, 2021Eugine 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 [ edit ]
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