Priest

Discover a comprehensive directory of celebrated individuals who have dedicated their lives to priesthood. Our list of famous priests includes influential figures, renowned scholars, and spiritual leaders who have made significant contributions to society and the world at large. Explore their profiles to learn about their remarkable journeys, teachings, and impact on the religious and humanitarian landscapes.

Metropolitan of Moscow, full academician of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, full member of the Society of Lovers of Russian Literature, honorary member of the Archaeological Society

Freethinking Monk

Sofroniy Vrachanskiy

Bulgarian priest, one of the inspirers of the Bulgarian national revival of the 18th century.

Former actor, later pastor

Pope since 1958

Saint of the Roman Catholic Church, monk, priest

Haj Amin Husseini

Mufti of Jerusalem

Friedrich Grimm Jr.

Calvinist priest, grandfather of the Brothers Grimm

English writer and clergyman.

Bartolome de Las Casas

Spanish priest, Dominican

Isaiya Salonskiy

Orthodox priest

Pope since 1572, to whom we owe the modern calendar

Menahem-Mendel Sheerson

The Seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe, King Moshiach

Tihon Shevkunov

Abbot of the Sretensky Monastery, confessor of the Putin family.

Girolamo Baruffaldi

Ferrarese poet, literary scholar and priest of the Baroque era

Blessed of the Roman Catholic Church, priest, martyr

Patrick Hamilton

Scottish Protestant martyr

The first Jewish high priest

Ditrih Bonhoffer

German Protestant theologian

Karlis Kundzins

Pastor in Smiltene in Livonia, Latvian writer

Alexander Duhnovich

Carpatho-Russian Greek Catholic priest, poet, writer

Dionizy Kajetanowicz

Priest of the Roman Catholic and Armenian Catholic Churches

Saint of the Roman Catholic Church, missionary and priest

Ferdinand Sander

German educator, Protestant minister and writer.

Blessed of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, priest

Luc-Francois Lalande

One of the first priests to accept the new civil structure of the clergy of France.

Jindrich Simon Baar

Czech writer and Catholic priest

Angelo De Santi

Italian priest and musicologist.

Blessed Roman Catholic Church, Priest, Franciscan, Martyr

Most popular person in France

Pio of Pietrelcina

Italian Capuchin priest, Catholic saint

Djovanny da Plano Karpini

Franciscan monk who was the first Western European to find himself in the capital of the Mongol Empire, Karakorum

English clergyman, natural philosopher and physicist

Dominique Mamberti

Vatican diplomat and curial dignitary

Zosima Yakytskiy and Lenskiy

German Catholic monk and priest

Italian priest, chess player and theorist.

Blessed Roman Catholic, priest, monk of the Franciscan order

Konstantin Kustodiev

Archpriest of the Orthodox churches in Carlsbad, Russian writer.

Ottokar Kernstock

Austrian poet, Catholic priest

Priest in Brandenburg

Catholic priest of the Salesian congregation

Isidor Yurievsky

Priest of the Nikolskaya Church in Yuryev

Joseph C. Martin

Catholic priest, famous fighter against alcoholism

Jozef Ratcinger

Pope since April 2005

Guilio Alberoni

Italian cardinal and politician

English cardinal, one of the most prominent church figures in England