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Bogdan Stefanov Dobranov

Bogdan Dobranov was a Bulgarian Catholic priest and bishop Ordinariate of Sofia, Plovdiv diocese.

Edward Likowski

He gained a bachelor's in 1861 from Monastir and was ordained a priest on 21 December 1861 in the diocese of diocese of Gniezno-Poznań.

Friends of the Mission Clinic of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Inc.

Founded in 2001 by ordained Catholic priest Father Georg Nigsch of Austria, the Mission Clinic is part of the social ministry of the Catholic Church of Zamora, Ecuador.

George Nedungatt

George Nedungatt (born on 21 December 1932 in Peringuzha near Muvattupuzha in Travancore, India), is an Indian Jesuit priest of Oriental rite, and expert in Oriental Canon Law.

Gheorghi Ivanov Jovcev

George Ivanov Jovcev (born May 9, 1950 in Sekirovo, a part of the town of Rakovski, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian Catholic priest and XXVI Bishop of Sofia - Plovdiv diocese.

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Monsignor Ryan (Cecil Kellaway), a Catholic priest and friend of Matt's, is also present at dinner and is a voice for tolerance.

Hilary Paweł Januszewski

Hilary Paweł Januszewski, O.Carm (June 11, 1907; Krajenki – March 25, 1945; Dachau concentration camp), was a Carmelite friar of the Ancient Observance and Catholic priest, who sent by the Nazi authorities in occupied Poland to the concentration camp at Dachau, where he managed to survive until 1945.

John Baptist Miège

John Baptist Miège, S.J. (September 18, 1815, Mercury, Savoy – July 21, 1884, Woodstock, Maryland, United States), was a Savoyard Jesuit priest.

Lucyan Bójnowski

Lucyan Bójnowski (February 5, 1868 - July 28, 1960) was a Polonia activist and Catholic priest who served as pastor in New Britain, Connecticut.

Patrick Rice

Patrick Michael Rice (also Patricio Rice) (September 1945, Fermoy – 8 July 2010, Miami) was an Irish human rights activist and former Catholic priest and religious who became a resident of Argentina.

Peter-Victor Braun

The Servant of God, Abbé Pierre-Victor Braun, (5 June 1825 – 18 May 1882) was a French Catholic priest who ministered to the poor of Paris.

Spiritism

In Brazil, Catholic priests Dom Carlos Kloppenburg and Oscar González Quevedo, among others, have since the 1960s written extensively against Spiritism from both a doctrinal and parapsychologic perspective.

Unification Theological Seminary

The seminary's professors come from a wide range of faiths, including a Rabbi, a Sheikh, a Methodist minister, a Presbyterian, and a Roman Catholic priest.


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Abdul Ahad

Abd ul-Aḥad Dāwūd, name adopted by David Benjamin Keldani (1867–c.1940), Persian Catholic priest who converted to Islam

Adam Pastor

Adam Pastor was born Roelof Martens or Martin, at Dörpen, Westphalia, and was a Catholic priest at Aschendorf till 1533 when he joined the peaceful wing of the Anabaptists.

Ambrose Burke

Monsignor Ambrose J. Burke (November 27, 1895 – October 6, 1998) was an English professor and Catholic priest who served as the eighth president of Saint Ambrose University (then Saint Ambrose College) from 1940 through 1956.

Andrew Byrne

Andrew Byrne (December 5, 1802 – June 10, 1862) was an Irish-American Catholic priest, who became the first Bishop of Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.A..

Audisio

Tommaso Audisio (1789-1845), Italian architect and Catholic priest

Bernard Bernard

Bernard Bernard (21 July 1821 in Mogues, France – 1895) was a French Catholic priest and missionary in Norway, Iceland and Scotland.

Burrel, Albania

The city used to be the site of one of the most terrible prisons of the communist regime, where both ordinary criminals and political prisoners such as Bashkim Shehu and Fatos Lubonja or the Catholic priest Dom Simon Jubani were held.

Charles Coughlin

Sax Rohmer's 1936 novel President Fu Manchu features a character based on Coughlin, a Catholic priest and radio host who is the only person who knows that a criminal mastermind is manipulating a U.S. presidential race.

Charles T. Murr

On May 13, 1977, in the Basilica of SS. Giovanni e Paulo (Monte Celio), Charles Theodore Murr was ordained a Roman Catholic priest, Pericle Cardinal Felici ordaining.

Eloy de la Iglesia

El diputado (Confessions of a Congressman) (1979), follows the story of a politician who is blackmailed due to his secret homosexuality and El sacerdote (The Priest ), also released in 1979, deals with a conservative catholic priest whose sexual obsessions leads him to self-punishment.

Father Berrigan

Philip Berrigan, American Catholic priest and peace activist, brother of Daniel

François Nau

François Nau (May 13, 1864 at Thil – September 2, 1931 at Paris) was a French Catholic priest, mathematician, Syriacist, and specialist in oriental languages.

Giovanni Battista Spínola

He was ordained a Catholic Priest in 1728, and made a Cardinal in 1733, given the titulus of San Cesareo in Palatio.

Higher Dinting

Nicholas Garlick was born in Higher Dinting in 1555 and was executed at Derby in July 1588 for being a Catholic priest.

Isaac Mayer Dick

He married while still young and while living with his wife's parents in Nesvizh, Minsk, became acquainted with a Catholic priest that clandestinely taught him the German language.

James Beach Moore

Another grandson, L. Douglas Brown, brother to W. Gordon, was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest in 1949.

Jan Władysław Obłąk

Jan Władysław Obłąk (born May 26, 1913 in Borzęcin – died December 16, 1988) was a Polish Catholic Priest, Bishop of Warmia from 1982 until his death in 1988.

Jean Bernard

Father Jean Bernard (1907–1994), Catholic priest who survived the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau

Jean-Nicolas Lemmens

Jean-Nicolas Lemmens (also Joannes Nicolaas Lemmens or Joannes Nicolaus Lemmens) (Schimmert, 3 June 1850 - Cobán (Guatemala), 10 August 1897) was a Dutch Catholic priest and Bishop of Victoria, Vancouver Island, Canada.

Johann Joseph Gassner

While a Catholic priest at Klösterle he gained a wide celebrity by professing to "cast out devils" and to work cures on the sick by means simply of prayer; he was attacked as an impostor, but the bishop of Regensburg, who believed in his honesty, bestowed upon him the cure of Pondorf.

Johannes Pistorius

Johannes Pistorius Woerdensis or Jan de Bakker van Woerden (1499–1525), Dutch Catholic priest who was the first to be martyred for Protestant beliefs

John B. Tabb

Father John Banister Tabb (March 22, 1845 – November 19, 1909) was an American poet, Roman Catholic priest, and professor of English.

Joseph Ohrwalder

Father Joseph Ohrwalder (6 March 1856 Lana/South Tyrol - 8 August 1913 Omdurman/Sudan) was a Roman Catholic priest, who was taken captive by the Mahdists in Sudan while working as a missionary there and escaped ten years later.

Juan de Castellanos

Juan de Castellanos (born in Spain in the first half of the sixteenth century; date of death unknown) was a Criollo poet, soldier and Catholic priest.

Julie von Massow

Such a meeting, however, was so controversial that when the organizer of the conference, the Catholic priest Friedrich Michelis, was seen after the conference riding the train from Erfurt to Halle with Protestant historian and conference participant Heinrich Leo, newspapers in Berlin and Rome reported the news, prompting speculation that the Jesuits were trying to forcefully convert Lutherans.

Korbinian Aigner

Korbinian Aigner, known as Apfelpfarrer ("apple pastor"), (born 11 May 1885, Hohenpolding; † 5 October 1966, Freising) was a Bavarian Catholic priest and pomologist.

Léon Vaganay

Léon Vaganay (Saint-Étienne, 22 October 1882 - Vernaison, 30 March 1969) was a French Roman Catholic priest and biblical scholar.

Lucille May Grace

Long declared that Boggs "ain't no communist or ain't one anymore and won't be influenced nearly as much by them communists as by his brother, who is a Catholic priest, and by old Archbishop Joseph Rummel in New Orleans who supported school desegregation."

Mario Gigante

His last brother Louis Gigante became an ordained Roman Catholic priest at St. Athanasius Church in the South Bronx and city councilman.

Martin Brennan

Martin Stanislaus Brennan (1845–1927), American Roman Catholic priest and scientist

Milinović

Šimun Milinović (1835–1910), Croatian Roman Catholic priest, Franciscan, Serbian Primate and Archbishop

Mugica

Carlos Mugica (1930–1974), Argentine Roman Catholic priest and activist

Murder of Alfred Kunz

Father Alfred Joseph Kunz, (April 15, 1931 – March 4, 1998), was a Catholic priest who was found with his throat slit in his Roman Catholic church in Dane, Wisconsin.

Nicholas Ilkov

Father Nicholas Ilkov (Polish: Mikołaj Ilków, Ukrainian: Mikola Іlkіv, born on 10 December 1890 - died in 1940 or 1941, Katyn, Poland) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest.

Patrick Riordan

Patrick William Riordan (1841–1914), American Roman Catholic priest; second Archbishop of San Francisco

Przytarnia

Bolesław Domański, Catholic priest and representative of the Polish minority in Germany, president of the Union of Poles in Germany

Raymond Kirk

Raymond V. Kirk (1901–1947), American Catholic priest and president of Duquesne University

Reginald Fuller

Reginald C. Fuller (1908-2011), British Biblical scholar, ecumenist, and Catholic priest

Ryan Scott

Ryan St. Anne Scott (born 1954), self-proclaimed American traditionalist Catholic priest

St Peter's College, Colombo

Marcelline Jayakody OMI - Well-known Sri Lankan Catholic priest, musician, lyricist, author, journalist and patriot.

Taneytown, Maryland

Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin, Catholic priest, missionary, and Russian prince during the late 18th century.

Tatisaurus

In 1948 and 1949 Father Edgar Oehler, a catholic priest working for the Fu Jen Catholic University at Beijing, excavated fossils near the village of Da Di in Yunnan.

Thomas Betagh

Thomas Betagh (1737 – 16 February 1811) was an Irish Catholic priest, schoolteacher, and professor of languages at Pont-à-Mousson seminary.

Trstenjak

Davorin Trstenjak (1817–1890), Slovenian writer, historian and Roman Catholic priest

Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Holy Family of London

In the Midlands, there was a Ukrainian Catholic priest celebrating Ukrainian-rite services for the Ukrainian faithful in Coventry, as well as in Rugby, Gloucester, Bristol, Birmingham and Cheltenham.

Van Lierde

Petrus Canisius van Lierde (1907–1995), Dutch Roman Catholic priest and theologian

Vladimir Kolupaev

Vladimir Kolupaev ( born on September 17, 1964, Mesherskoye, Chekhovsky District, Russia) is a historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences, a graduate of the Moscow State University of Culture and Arts and Catholic priest.

Władysław Findysz

Blessed Władysław Findysz (born December 13, 1907 in Krościenko Niżne near Krosno – died August 21, 1964 in Nowy Żmigród, Poland) was a Polish Catholic priest.

Yangju highway incident

Father Mun Jeong Hyeon, a Roman Catholic priest active in the anti-USFK movement, began a hunger strike outside the U.S. Embassy in Seoul.

Zenger

Erich Zenger (1939, Dollnstein - 2010, Münster), a German Roman Catholic priest and theologian