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Felix Varela High School

The school was named for Father Félix Varela (November 20, 1788 – February 27, 1853), a Cuban Roman Catholic Priest, human rights advocate, teacher, and an admired figure throughout the Cuban American exile community.

Théophile Le Grand de la Liraye

Théophile Le Grand de la Liraye (1819-1873) was a French Roman Catholic Priest, later defrocked, in Vietnam at the time of Charles Rigault de Genouilly's invasion of Vietnam in 1858.

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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1880 Garret Rock May Day Riot

With the sheriff’s meager forces unable to themself control the crowd, Patterson’s Mayor Graham and Sheriff Van Voorhies called upon the greatly revered Patterson Roman Catholic priest Father William N. McNulty, the moral authority of whose exhortations to the crowd were sufficient to temporarily quell or distract that mob, while sheriff’s deputies extricated the constable and the Dalzells from the rear of the second house and placed them in a transport coach.

Alexandre Taché

Alexandre-Antonin Taché (1823–1894), Canadian Roman Catholic priest and bishop

Anambra State

Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi (born in Aguleri, Anambra State, Nigeria in September 1903 – died in Leicester, England, January 24, 1964) was an Igbo Nigerian origin from IGBOEZUNU Aguleri Anambra East Local Government, Anambra State, Nigeria ordained a Roman Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Onitsha, Nigeria on December 19, 1937.

Canon Rock

Canon Rock or Daniel Rock (1799-1871), an English Roman Catholic priest, ecciesiologist, and antiquarian

Champney

Anthony Champney (born 1569), English Roman Catholic priest and controversialist

Charles Rice

Charles Owen Rice (1908-2005), Roman Catholic priest and American labor activist

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.

Dr Rock

Daniel Rock (1799–1871), English Roman Catholic priest, ecciesiologist and antiquarian

Father Albert

Alberto Cutié also known as Albert Cutié, a former Roman Catholic priest and current Episcopal priest and host of the talk show Father Albert on Fox.

Francis Page

Francis Page (martyr), Roman Catholic priest condemned to death at the same time as James Duckett

Francisco Fernández Carvajal

Francisco Fernández Carvajal or Francis Fernandez (Granada, 1938) is a Spanish Roman Catholic priest in the Opus Dei Prelature and author of several books.

Francisco Mora

Francisco Mora y Borrell (1827–1905), Catalan American Roman Catholic priest

Frederick R. McManus

Monsignor Frederick Richard McManus (born February 8, 1923, Lynn, Massachusetts – died November 27, 2005, Boston, Massachusetts) was an American Roman Catholic priest and academic, who served as a peritus on the liturgy at the Second Vatican Council.

Galante

Joseph Anthony Galante (born 1938), Roman Catholic priest, former bishop of the diocese of Camden, New Jersey

Harry Holden

Henry Holden (1596–1662), English Roman Catholic priest an theologian

James Beach Moore

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

John B. Tabb

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

John Brenan

Michael John Brenan (1780–1847), Roman Catholic priest and ecclesiastical historian

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.

Jozef Cieminski

Józef Franciszek Darzyn Ciemiński (Borzyszkowy, 4 August 1867-Winona, 1959) was a Polish-born Roman Catholic priest in Minnesota.

Leo Garoshka

Archimandrite Leo Garoshka, MIC (Belarussian: Leў Garoshka, born on 26 February 1911, Troschitsy, Grodno Region, Russian Empire - died on 8 August 1977, Paris, France) was a Belarusian Roman Catholic priest of the Eastern rite, religious and social activist and researcher of the history of religion in Belarus.

Léon Vaganay

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

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

Matija Majar

During his studies in Klagenfurt, he came under the influence of Anton Martin Slomšek, a Roman Catholic priest and author who propagated the use of Slovene in the public sphere.

McGivney

Michael J. McGivney (1852–1890), Roman Catholic priest and founder of the Knights of Columbus

Michael Martin Clancy

Father Michael Martin Clancy OSA (1868–1931) was an Irish-Australian Roman Catholic priest.

Mihály

Mihály Salbeck (1709-1758), Hungarian Roman Catholic priest, philosopher and educator

Milinović

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

Miriam Therese Winter

Out of the Depths: The Story of Ludmila Javorová, Ordained Roman Catholic Priest (2001) Crossroad

Mugica

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

Murgas

Jozef Murgaš (1864–1929), Slovak inventor, architect, botanist, painter, patriot, and Roman Catholic priest

Nicholas Saunders

Nicholas Sanders (c. 1530–1581), English Roman Catholic priest and polemicist

Patrick Riordan

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

Paul Breza

Paul Joseph Breza, Roman Catholic priest and Kashubian American activist, was born in Winona, Minnesota on June 23, 1937, the son of Joseph Peter and Alice Seraphine (Pehler) Breza, both of whom were descendants of Kashubian immigrants from Bytów, Poland.

Peter Donahue

Peter M. Donohue, Roman Catholic priest and president of Villanova University

Philip Evans

Philip Evans and John Lloyd (1645–1679), Welsh Roman Catholic priest and saint

Rossetti

Stephen Joseph Rossetti (born 1951), a Roman Catholic priest, author, lecturer and psychologist

Saint Damien

Father Damien (1840-1849), also called Saint Damien of Molokai, a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium

The dancing priest

Neil Horan, former Roman Catholic priest notorious for interrupting sporting events

The Father Clements Story

The Father Clements Story is a 1987 made-for-television movie about the life of Father George Clements, an African-American Roman Catholic priest who became famous for being the first United States priest to legally adopt a child.

Tony Middleton

Anthony Middleton (died 1590), English Roman Catholic priest and martyr

Trstenjak

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

Van Lierde

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

Walter Elliot

Walter Elliott (1842–1928), American Roman Catholic priest

William N. McNulty

Dean (Christianity) William N. McNulty (1829-1922), was an American pioneer Roman Catholic priest, who arrived in New York from his native Ballyshannon, Ireland in 1850, during the time of the Great Irish Potato Famine and when, there, then, existed little in the way of Roman Catholic facilities about near by Passaic County, New Jersey.

Wreckovation

In the United States, a prominent liturgical design consultant as well as Roman Catholic priest Richard S. Vosko who has presided over a good number of church renovations is generally seen as one of the primary proponents of the emphasis away from the traditional.

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