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)
David Michael Moses – American priest and musician
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.