100 Notable alumni of
Pontifical Gregorian University
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Pontifical Gregorian University is 90th in the world, 29th in Europe, and 2nd in Italy by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Pontifical Gregorian University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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John Paul I
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- Latin Catholic priestuniversity teacherwriterLatin Catholic bishoptransitional deacon
- Biography
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Pope John Paul I was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 26 August 1978 until his death 33 days later. His reign is among the shortest in papal history, giving rise to the most recent year of three popes—the first since 1605. John Paul I remains the most recent Italian-born pope, the last in a succession of such popes that started with Clement VII in 1523. He was also the first pope to have been born in the 20th century.
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Paul VI
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- Latin Catholic priestdiplomat
- Biography
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Pope Paul VI was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 21 June 1963 until his death on 6 August 1978. Succeeding John XXIII, he continued the Second Vatican Council, which he closed in 1965, implementing its numerous reforms. He fostered improved ecumenical relations with Eastern Orthodox and Protestant churches, which resulted in many historic meetings and agreements. In January 1964, he flew to Jordan, the first time a reigning pontiff had left Italy in more than a century.
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Pius XII
- Enrolled in Pontifical Gregorian University
- Studied in 1894-1895
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- Latin Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Pope Pius XII was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 2 March 1939 until his death on 9 October 1958.
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Leo XIII
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- Latin Catholic priestCatholic bishopnunciowriterarchbishop
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Pope Leo XIII was head of the Catholic Church from 1878 until his death in 1903. He had the fourth-longest reign of any pope, behind those of St. Peter, Pius IX (his predecessor), and John Paul II.
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Pius IX
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- diplomatCatholic priest
- Biography
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Pope Pius IX was head of the Catholic Church from 1846 to 1878. His reign of nearly 32 years is the longest verified of any pope in history and second only to Saint Peter according to Catholic tradition. He was notable for convoking the First Vatican Council in 1868 which defined the dogma of papal infallibility before taking a break in summer of 1870. The council never reconvened. At the same time, France started the Franco-Prussian War and removed the troops that protected the Papal States, which allowed the Capture of Rome by the Kingdom of Italy on 20 September 1870. Thereafter, he refused to leave Vatican City, declaring himself a "prisoner in the Vatican".
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Maximilian Kolbe
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- newspaper proprietorreligioustheologianpublisherEsperantist
- Biography
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Maximilian Maria Kolbe OFMConv was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar, priest, missionary, and martyr. He volunteered to die in place of a man named Franciszek Gajowniczek in the German death camp of Auschwitz, located in German-occupied Poland during World War II. He had been active in promoting the veneration of the Immaculate Virgin Mary, founding and supervising the monastery of Niepokalanów near Warsaw, operating an amateur-radio station (SP3RN), and founding or running several other organizations and publications.
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Pius XI
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- Latin Catholic priestlibrarianCatholic bishopmountaineermissionary
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Pope Pius XI was head of the Catholic Church from 6 February 1922 until his death in February 1939. He was also the first sovereign of Vatican City upon its creation on 11 February 1929.
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Benedict XV
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- Latin Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Pope Benedict XV was head of the Catholic Church from 1914 until his death in January 1922. His pontificate was largely overshadowed by World War I and its political, social, and humanitarian consequences in Europe.
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Pietro Parolin
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- archbishopCatholic bishopjuristCatholic priestsecretary
- Biography
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Pietro Parolin is an Italian Catholic prelate who has served as the Vatican's Secretary of State since 2013, and has served as a member of the Council of Cardinals since 2014, the same year he was made a cardinal.
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Óscar Romero
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- Latin Catholic priest
- Biography
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Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez was a prelate of the Catholic Church in El Salvador. He served as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of San Salvador, the Titular Bishop of Tambeae, as Bishop of Santiago de María, and finally as the fourth Archbishop of San Salvador. As archbishop, Romero spoke out against social injustice and violence amid the escalating conflict between the military government and left-wing insurgents that led to the Salvadoran Civil War. In 1980, Romero was fatally shot by an assassin while celebrating Mass. Though no one was ever convicted for the crime, investigations by the UN-created Truth Commission for El Salvador concluded that Major Roberto D'Aubuisson, a death squad leader and later founder of the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) political party, had ordered the killing.
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Cardinal Mazarin
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- Catholic priestpoliticiandiplomatart collectorCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Jules Mazarin, from 1641 known as Cardinal Mazarin, was an Italian Catholic prelate, diplomat and politician who served as the chief minister to the Kings of France Louis XIII and Louis XIV from 1642 to his death. He was made a cardinal in 1641.
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Carlo Maria Viganò
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- anti-vaccine activistCatholic priesttheologianCatholic bishopCatholic deacon
- Biography
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Carlo Maria Viganò is an Italian traditionalist Catholic archbishop who served as Apostolic Nuncio to the United States from 2011 to 2016 and as secretary-general of the Governorate of Vatican City State from 2009 to 2011. He is known for having publicized the Vatican leaks scandal of 2012, in which he revealed financial corruption in the Vatican, and a 2018 letter accusing Pope Francis and other Catholic leaders of covering up sexual abuse allegations against former cardinal Theodore McCarrick. In 2024, Viganò was charged by the Vatican with schism. He was declared guilty and excommunicated.
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Robert Sarah
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- Latin Catholic bishoppriestCatholic priest
- Biography
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Robert Sarah is a Guinean Catholic prelate who served as prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments from 23 November 2014 to 20 February 2021. He previously served as secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples under Pope John Paul II and president of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum under Pope Benedict XVI. He was made a cardinal in 2010.
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Aloysius Gonzaga
- Occupations
- religiousregular cleric
- Biography
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Aloysius de Gonzaga, SJ was an Italian aristocrat who became a member of the Society of Jesus. While still a student at the Roman College, he died as a result of caring for the victims of a serious epidemic. He was beatified in 1605 and canonized in 1726.
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Ivan Illich
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- sociologisthistoriantheologianpedagoguewriter
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Ivan Dominic Illich was an Austrian Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher, and social critic. His 1971 book Deschooling Society criticises modern society's institutional approach to education, an approach that demotivates and alienates individuals from the process of learning. His 1975 book Medical Nemesis, importing to the sociology of medicine the concept of medical harm, argues that industrialised society widely impairs quality of life by overmedicalising life, pathologizing normal conditions, creating false dependency, and limiting other more healthful solutions. Illich called himself "an errant pilgrim."
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Urban VIII
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- Catholic priestpatron of the artsCatholic bishopwriter
- Biography
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Pope Urban VIII, born Maffeo Vincenzo Barberini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 6 August 1623 to his death, in July 1644. As pope, he expanded the papal territory by force of arms and advantageous politicking, and was also a prominent patron of the arts, commissioning works from artists like Gian Lorenzo Bernini, and a reformer of Church missions. His papacy also covered 21 years of the Thirty Years' War.
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Raymond Leo Burke
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- Catholic bishopjuristwriterCatholic priestjudge
- Biography
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Raymond Leo Burke is an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta from 2014 to 2023. He previously served as Archbishop of St. Louis from 2004 to 2008 and Bishop of La Crosse from 1995 to 2004. From 2008 to 2014, he was the prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura. He was made a cardinal in 2010.
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Giovanni Battista Re
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Giovanni Battista Re is an Italian Catholic prelate who has served as Dean of the College of Cardinals since 2020. He was made a cardinal in 2001 and served as prefect of the Congregation for Bishops from 2000 to 2010. As the most senior cardinal bishop in attendance, he chaired the 2013 conclave that elected Pope Francis.
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Athanasius Kircher
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- physicistuniversity teacherwritermathematiciancomposer
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Athanasius Kircher SJ was a German Jesuit scholar and polymath who published around 40 major works of comparative religion, geology, and medicine. Kircher has been compared to fellow Jesuit Roger Joseph Boscovich and to Leonardo da Vinci for his vast range of interests, and has been honoured with the title "Master of a Hundred Arts". He taught for more than 40 years at the Roman College, where he set up a wunderkammer or cabinet of curiosities that would become the Kircherian Museum. A resurgence of interest in Kircher has occurred within the scholarly community in recent decades.
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Innocent X
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- diplomatCatholic priest
- Biography
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Pope Innocent X, born Giovanni Battista Pamphili), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 15 September 1644 to his death, in January 1655.
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Hans Küng
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- university teacherCatholic priesttheologianwriterphilosopher
- Biography
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Hans Küng was a Swiss Catholic priest, theologian, and author. From 1995 he was president of the Foundation for a Global Ethic (Stiftung Weltethos).
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Kevin Farrell
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- Latin Catholic priestphilosopherLegionary of ChristCatholic bishopmissionary
- Biography
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Kevin Joseph Farrell is an Irish-born American Catholic prelate who has served as the prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life since 2016, Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church since 2019, and president of the Supreme Court of Vatican City since 2024. He served as the regent of Vatican City after the death of Pope Francis on 21 April 2025, and held these interim duties until Leo XIV was elected as pope on 8 May.
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Angelo Sodano
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishopLatin Catholic priesttheologian
- Biography
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Angelo Raffaele Sodano was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as the Dean of the College of Cardinals from 2005 to 2019 and previously as the Cardinal Secretary of State from 1991 to 2006; Sodano was the first person since 1828 to serve simultaneously as Dean and Secretary of State.
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Robert Bellarmine
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- philologisttheologianuniversity teacherLatin Catholic priestHebraist
- Biography
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Robert Bellarmine SJ was an Italian Jesuit and a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was canonized a saint in 1930 and named Doctor of the Church, one of only 27 at the time. He was one of the most important figures in the Counter-Reformation.
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Clement XI
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- Catholic priest
- Biography
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Pope Clement XI, born Giovanni Francesco Albani, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 23 November 1700 to his death in March 1721.
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Clement XII
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Pope Clement XII, born Lorenzo Corsini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 12 July 1730 to his death in February 1740.
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Aloysius Stepinac
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- Catholic theologianCatholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Aloysius Viktor Stepinac was a Croat prelate of the Catholic Church. Made a cardinal in 1953, Stepinac served as Archbishop of Zagreb from 1937 until his death.
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Jean-Louis Tauran
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- librarianarchivistCatholic priest
- Biography
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Jean-Louis Pierre Tauran was a French cardinal of the Catholic Church. When he died, he had been the president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue since 2007 and Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church since the end of 2014. He was made a cardinal in 2003 and was the Cardinal Protodeacon from 2011 to 2014. His earlier career included almost thirty years in the diplomatic service of the Holy See and several years as the Vatican's chief archivist and librarian.
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Carlo Maria Martini
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- Catholic priesttheologianbiblical scholaruniversity teacherCatholic deacon
- Biography
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Carlo Maria Martini SJ was an Italian Jesuit and Biblical scholar. He served as Archbishop of Milan from 1980 to 2002 and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1983.
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Innocent XIII
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- Catholic priest
- Biography
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Pope Innocent XIII, born as Michelangelo dei Conti, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 8 May 1721 to his death in March 1724. He remains the most recent pope to take the pontifical name "Innocent".
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Gregory XV
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- Latin Catholic priest
- Biography
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Pope Gregory XV, born Alessandro Ludovisi, was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 9 February 1621 until his death in 1623. He is notable for founding the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, an organization tasked with overseeing the spread of Catholicism and missionary work. Gregory XV was also responsible for the canonization of Saints Ignatius of Loyola, Francis Xavier, Teresa of Ávila, and Philip Neri, which solidified his commitment to the Counter-Reformation.
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Innocent XII
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- Catholic priest
- Biography
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Pope Innocent XII, born Antonio Pignatelli, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 12 July 1691 until his death in September 1700.
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Fernando Lugo
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishopsociologistpolitician
- Biography
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Fernando Armindo Lugo Méndez is a Paraguayan politician and laicized Catholic bishop who was President of Paraguay from 2008 to 2012. Previously, he was a Roman Catholic priest and bishop, serving as Bishop of the Diocese of San Pedro from 1994 to 2005. He was elected as president in 2008, an election that ended 61 years of rule by the Colorado Party.
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Clement X
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- diplomatCatholic bishopCatholic priest
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Pope Clement X, born Emilio Bonaventura Altieri, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 29 April 1670 to his death on 22 July 1676.
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Giuseppe Siri
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Giuseppe Siri was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Genoa from 1946 to 1987, and was elevated to the rank of cardinal in 1953. A protégé of Pope Pius XII, he took part in the Second Vatican Council and was considered a papabile for 20 years, during the conclaves of 1958, 1963, August 1978 and October 1978.
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Marc Ouellet
- Occupations
- university teacherCatholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Marc Armand Ouellet PSS is a Canadian Catholic prelate who served as prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops and president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America from 2010 to 2023. He is a member of the Sulpicians.
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Adam Stefan Sapieha
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- Catholic deaconCatholic priestpoliticianCatholic bishoptheologian
- Biography
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Prince Adam Stefan Stanisław Bonifacy Józef Sapieha was a Polish Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Kraków from 1911 to 1951. A member of the Polish nobility, between 1922 and 1923 he was a senator of the Second Polish Republic. In 1946, Pope Pius XII made him a cardinal.
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Marek Jędraszewski
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- philosopherCatholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Marek Jędraszewski is a Polish Catholic prelate who served as Metropolitan Archbishop of Kraków from 2016 to 2025. He served as Metropolitan Archbishop of Łódź from 2012 to 2017. He has also been vice president of the Polish Episcopal Conference since 2014.
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Gustavo Gutiérrez
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- university teacherCatholic priesttheologianphilosopherCatholic theologian
- Biography
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Gustavo Gutiérrez-Merino Díaz OP was a Peruvian Catholic philosopher, theologian, and Dominican priest who was one of the founders of Latin American liberation theology. His 1971 book A Theology of Liberation is considered pivotal to the formation of liberation theology at large. He held the John Cardinal O'Hara Professorship of Theology at the University of Notre Dame and was a visiting professor at universities in North America and Europe.
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Joachim Meisner
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- archbishopCatholic bishopwriterCatholic priesttransitional deacon
- Biography
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Joachim Meisner was a German Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Cologne from 1989 to 2014. He previously served as Bishop of Berlin from 1980 to 1989, and was created a cardinal in 1983. He was widely considered to be Germany's leading conservative Catholic figure.
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Vincent Nichols
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishoptheologianCatholic deacon
- Biography
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Vincent Gerard Nichols is an English Catholic prelate. A cardinal since 2014, he served as Archbishop of Westminster from 2009 to 2025. He was the Archbishop of Birmingham from 2000 to 2009 and is president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales.
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Józef Glemp
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- university teacherCatholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Józef Glemp was a Polish cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was Archbishop of Warsaw from 1981 to 2006, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1983. He assumed the title of Primate of Poland following Stefan Wyszyński's death.
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Ngô Đình Thục
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục was a Vietnamese Catholic prelate who served as the Archbishop of Huế in the Republic of Vietnam from 1960 until 1968. He later lived in exile in Europe due to the unrest in his country and became a sedevacantist, consequently excommunicated twice by the Catholic Church. Five months before he died, he repented his views and was received back into the Church.
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Karl Lehmann
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- university teacherCatholic priesttheologianwriterCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Karl Lehmann was a German prelate and cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Mainz from 1983 to 2016, being elevated to the cardinalate in 2001.
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Filippo Grandi
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- diplomatphilosopherhistorian
- Biography
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Filippo Grandi is an Italian diplomat and United Nations official, who has served as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 2016 to 2025. He previously served as Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and United Nations Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan. He received the Olympic Laureate award during the Paris 2024 Olympics Opening Ceremony.
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Adolfo Nicolás
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- Catholic priestuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Adolfo Nicolás Pachón SJ was a Spanish Catholic priest who served as the 30th superior general of the Society of Jesus from 2008 to 2016. He previously taught at Sophia University in Tokyo for twenty years and headed educational institutions in Manila from 1978 to 1984 and in Tokyo from 1991 to 1993. He led the Jesuits in Japan from 1993 to 1996 and, after four years of pastoral work in Tokyo, led the Jesuits in Asia from 2004 to 2008.
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Leonardo Sandri
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Leonardo Sandri is an Argentine prelate of the Catholic Church who has been a cardinal since November 2007 and vice dean of the College of Cardinals since January 2020. He was prefect of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches from 2007 to 2022. He served in the diplomatic service of the Holy See from 1974 to 1991 in several overseas assignments, including as a permanent observer of the Holy See before the Organization of American States from 1989 to 1991, and in Rome as Substitute for General Affairs in the Secretariat of State from 1999 to 2007.
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Donald Wuerl
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Donald William Wuerl is an American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Washington from 2006 to 2018. He previously served as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Seattle (1986 to 1987) and Bishop of Pittsburgh (1988 to 2006). Pope Benedict XVI made him a cardinal in 2010.
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Camillo Ruini
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- theologianCatholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Camillo Ruini is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who was made a cardinal in 1991. He served as president of the Italian Episcopal Conference from 1991 to 2007 and as Vicar General of the Diocese of Rome from 1991 to 2008.
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Gianfranco Ravasi
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- Catholic priesttheologianuniversity teacherscreenwriterJudaic scholar
- Biography
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Gianfranco Ravasi is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church and a biblical scholar. A cardinal since 2010, he was President of the Pontifical Council for Culture from 2007 to 2022. He headed Milan's Ambrosian Library from 1989 to 2007.
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Norberto Rivera Carrera
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- university teacherCatholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Norberto Rivera Carrera is a Mexican prelate of the Catholic Church who was archbishop of Mexico from 1995 to 2017. He was made a cardinal in 1998. He was Bishop of Tehuacán from 1985 to 1995.
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Titus Brandsma
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- Catholic priestuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Titus Brandsma OCarm was a Dutch Carmelite priest and a professor of philosophy. Brandsma was vehemently opposed to Nazi ideology and spoke out against it many times before World War II. He was imprisoned at the Dachau concentration camp, where he was murdered in 1942.
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Angelo De Donatis
- Enrolled in Pontifical Gregorian University
- Graduated with Licentiate of Sacred Theology in moral theology
- Occupations
- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Angelo De Donatis is an Italian Catholic prelate who has served as Major Penitentiary since 2024. He was Cardinal Vicar (officially Vicar General of His Holiness) and Archpriest of the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran from 2017 to 2024.
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Josyf Slipyj
- Occupations
- Catholic deaconCatholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Josyf Slipyi was a Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and a cardinal of the Catholic Church.
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Luis Ladaria Ferrer
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- Catholic bishopLatin Catholic priestuniversity teachertheologian
- Biography
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Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer SJ is a Spanish Jesuit, theologian and a cardinal of the Catholic Church. After a thirty-year career teaching theology, he joined the Roman Curia in 2004 as Secretary-General of the International Theological Commission. He was made an archbishop when named secretary of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) in 2008 and served as its prefect from 2017 to 2023. He was raised to the rank of cardinal in 2018.
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Godfried Danneels
- Occupations
- Catholic priestCatholic bishopuniversity teachertheologian
- Biography
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Godfried Maria Jules Danneels was a Belgian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels and the chairman of the Episcopal Conference of Belgium from 1979 to 2010. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1983.
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Fernando Vérgez Alzaga
- Occupations
- Catholic priestCatholic bishopCatholic deaconLegionary of Christ
- Biography
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Fernando Vérgez Alzaga L.C. is a Spanish Catholic prelate who served as President of the Pontifical Commission and Governorate for Vatican City State from 2021 to 2025. He was Secretary General of the Governorate of Vatican City State from 2013 to 2021, and before that, director of the Vatican City State Telecommunications Directorate.
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Theodore Hesburgh
- Occupations
- Catholic priesttheologianuniversity teacherwriter
- Biography
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Theodore Martin Hesburgh, CSC was an American Catholic priest and academic who was a member of the Congregation of Holy Cross. He was president of the University of Notre Dame for 35 years from 1952 to 1987 and served in numerous appointed positions in the US government, including as chairman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights.
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Roger Etchegaray
- Occupations
- Catholic priestChristian ministerCatholic bishopdiplomat
- Biography
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Roger Marie Élie Etchegaray was a French cardinal of the Catholic Church. Etchegaray served as the Archbishop of Marseille from 1970 to 1985 before entering the Roman Curia, where he served as President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace (1984–1998) and President of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum (1984–1995). He was elevated to the rank of cardinal in 1979, and was the longest-serving cardinal never to attend a papal conclave.
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Stanisław Ryłko
- Occupations
- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Stanisław Marian Ryłko is a Polish cardinal of the Catholic Church. He held positions in the Roman Curia beginning in 1987 and was president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity from 2003 to 2016. He was made a cardinal in 2007. He was Archpriest of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore from 2016 to 2025.
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Scipione Borghese
- Occupations
- diplomatCatholic bishoppatron of the artslibrarianCatholic deacon
- Biography
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Scipione Caffarelli-Borghese was an Italian cardinal, art collector and patron of the arts. A member of the Borghese family, he was the patron of the painter Caravaggio and the artist Bernini. His legacy is the establishment of the art collection at the Villa Borghese in Rome.
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Giovanni Benelli
- Occupations
- Catholic deaconCatholic priesttheologiandiplomatCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Giovanni Benelli was an Italian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Florence from 1977 until his death. He previously served as Deputy Secretary of State for the Holy See from 1967 until he was appointed to Archbishop of Florence and made a cardinal the same year.
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Franz König
- Occupations
- Catholic bishopCatholic priestuniversity teacherbishopphilosopher
- Biography
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Franz König was an Austrian Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as archbishop of Vienna from 1956 to 1985, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1958. The last surviving cardinal elevated by Pope John XXIII, he was the longest-serving and second-oldest cardinal worldwide at the time of his death.
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Mariano Rampolla
- Occupations
- Catholic priest
- Biography
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Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro was an Italian Cardinal in the Catholic Church, and the last man to have his candidacy for papal election vetoed through jus exclusivae by a Catholic monarch.
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Dionigi Tettamanzi
- Occupations
- archbishopCatholic bishopCatholic priestuniversity teacherEsperantist
- Biography
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Dionigi Tettamanzi was an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, who was named a cardinal in 1998. He was Archbishop of Genoa from 1995 to 2002 and Archbishop of Milan from 2002 to 2011.
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Odilo Scherer
- Occupations
- university teacherCatholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Odilo Pedro Scherer is a Brazilian cardinal of the Catholic Church. Since 2007 he has been the Archbishop of São Paulo, where he was auxiliary bishop from 2001 to 2007. From 1994 to 2001 he worked in the Roman Curia at the Congregation for Bishops.
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Landell de Moura
- Occupations
- Catholic priestinventorphysicistscientist
- Biography
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Father Roberto Landell de Moura, commonly known as Roberto Landell, was a Brazilian Roman Catholic priest and inventor. He is best known for his attempts in the 1880s to develop long-distance audio transmissions device that combined an improved megaphone device and a photophone (using light beams). Landell received patents in Brazil and the United States during the first decade of the 1900s in which he also included designs that he claimed could transmit voice using radio waves.
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Carlos Aguiar Retes
- Occupations
- Catholic deaconCatholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Carlos Aguiar Retes is a Mexican cardinal of the Catholic Church who serves as the Archbishop of Mexico City. He has served as an officer of the Mexican Episcopal Conference and the Latin American Episcopal Conference (CELAM) and been president of both. He helped draft the landmark mission statement CELAM issued at the close of its 2007 conference in Aparecida. He was archbishop of Tlalnepantla from 2009 to 2017 and Bishop of Texcoco from 1997 to 2009. David Agren of the Catholic News Service calls him a "longtime ally" of Pope Francis who combines "intellectual finesse with a pastoral passion".
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Cormac Murphy-O'Connor
- Occupations
- theologianCatholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Cormac Murphy-O'Connor was a British Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Westminster from 2000 to 2009. He was also president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales. He was made a cardinal in 2001.
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Víctor Manuel Fernández
- Occupations
- Catholic theologianuniversity teacherCatholic deaconwriterCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Víctor Manuel "Tucho" Fernández is an Argentine prelate of the Catholic Church and a theologian. He is currently the head of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.
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Friedrich Wetter
- Enrolled in Pontifical Gregorian University
- Studied in 1948-1956
- Occupations
- Catholic priestCatholic bishopuniversity teachertheologian
- Biography
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Friedrich Wetter is a German cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was Archbishop of Munich and Freising, Germany, from 1982 to 2007. He was Bishop of Speyer from 1968 to 1982. He has been a cardinal since 1985.
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Ed Martin
- Years
- 1970-.. (age 56)
- Occupations
- prosecutorlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Edward Robert Martin Jr. is an American conservative activist, politician, and lawyer who has served as the United States pardon attorney since May 2025. He previously served as interim United States attorney for the District of Columbia from January to May 2025, appointed by President Donald Trump. He was chair of the Missouri Republican Party from 2013 to 2015.
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Eduardo Martínez Somalo
- Occupations
- university teacherCatholic priesttheologiandiplomatCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Eduardo Martínez Somalo was a Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church who spent most of his career in the Roman Curia, first in the Secretariat of State from 1956 to 1975 and from 1979 to 1988, and then leading two of its principal dicasteries: the Congregation for Divine Worship from 1988 to 1992 and the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life from 1992 to 2004.
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Jean-Claude Hollerich
- Occupations
- university teacherCatholic priestregular clericCatholic bishoparchbishop
- Biography
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Jean-Claude Hollerich SJ is a Luxembourgish Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of Luxembourg since 2011. He was the president of the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) from March 2018 to 2023. He is a member of the Jesuits.
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John Berchmans
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- Catholic seminarian
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John Berchmans, SJ was a Belgian Jesuit scholastic and is revered as a saint in the Catholic Church.
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Angelo Amato
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- archbishopdeanCatholic priesttheologianuniversity teacher
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Angelo Amato, S.D.B. was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as the Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints between 2008 and 2018. He served as Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 2002 to 2008 and became a cardinal in 2010.
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Daniel DiNardo
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- theologianCatholic bishopCatholic priest
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Daniel Nicholas DiNardo is an American Catholic retired prelate who served as Archbishop of Galveston-Houston from 2006 to 2025. He previously served as Coadjutor and later Bishop of Sioux City from 1997 to 2004.
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Anthony Kenny
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- philosopher
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Sir Anthony John Patrick Kenny FBA is a British philosopher whose interests lie in the philosophy of mind, ancient and scholastic philosophy, the philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of Wittgenstein of whose literary estate he is an executor. With Peter Geach, he has made a significant contribution to analytical Thomism, a movement whose aim is to present the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas in the style of analytic philosophy. He is a former president of the British Academy and the Royal Institute of Philosophy.
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Rafael Merry del Val
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishopdiplomattransitional deacon
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Rafael Merry del Val y Zulueta, OL was a Spanish Catholic bishop, Vatican official, and cardinal.
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Arthur Roche
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- theologianCatholic bishopCatholic priest
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Arthur Roche is a British bishop and cardinal of the Catholic Church. He has been prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments since 2021. He was previously secretary of the congregation from 2012 to 2021.
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Ndre Mjeda
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- writerpoettranslatorCatholic priestuniversity teacher
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Ndre Mjeda was an Albanian philologist, poet, priest, rilindas, translator and writer of the Albanian Renaissance. He was a member of the Mjeda family.
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Paul Laverty
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- actorjuristlawyerscreenwriterfilm screenwriter
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Paul Laverty is an Irish and Scottish screenwriter and lawyer best known for his collaborations with Ken Loach. He has won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay and was a nominee for the Best Screenplay award at the BAFTAs.
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Józef Kowalczyk
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishoparchbishopCatholic deacon
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Józef Kowalczyk was a Polish Roman Catholic prelate, canon lawyer and diplomat who, from 1989 to 2010, served as the first apostolic nuncio to Poland since World War II. He later served as archbishop of Gniezno and primate of Poland until his retirement in 2014.
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Jozef Tomko
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- priestCatholic priestmissionaryuniversity teacherreligious writer
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Jozef Tomko was a Slovak prelate of the Catholic Church who held positions in the Roman Curia from 1962 until he retired in 2007. He was prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples from 1985 to 2001 and president of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses from 2001 to 2007. He was made a cardinal in 1985.
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Péter Pázmány
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- Catholic bishopwritertranslatorCatholic priestuniversity teacher
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Péter Pázmány de Panasz, S.J., was a Hungarian Jesuit who was a noted philosopher, theologian, cardinal, pulpit orator and statesman. He was an important figure in the Counter-Reformation in Royal Hungary.
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Rino Fisichella
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- university teacherCatholic priesttheologianwriterCatholic bishop
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Salvatore "Rino" Fisichella is an Italian Catholic prelate with the rank of archbishop. He has been the pro-prefect for the New Evangelization section of the Dicastery for Evangelization since 2022. He was the president of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization from 2010 to 2022 and of the Pontifical Academy for Life from 2008 to 2010.
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Bernard Lonergan
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- university teachertheologianphilosopher
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Bernard Joseph Francis Lonergan SJ CC was a Canadian Jesuit priest, philosopher, and theologian regarded by many as one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century.
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Josip Bozanić
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishopuniversity teachertheologian
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Josip Bozanić is a Croatian prelate of the Catholic Church who was the Archbishop of Zagreb from 1997 to 2023. He was previously Bishop of Krk from 1989 to 1997. He was made a cardinal in 2003. Bozanić is the Grand Prior of the Croatian Lieutenancy of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.
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Enrique Angelelli
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- theologianCatholic bishopCatholic priest
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Enrique Ángel Angelelli Carletti was a bishop of the Catholic Church in Argentina who was assassinated during the Dirty War for his involvement with social issues. Angelelli commitment to the "Church of the Poor" offered a model for the future Pope Francis.
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Renato Martino
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- diplomatCatholic bishopCatholic priest
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Renato Raffaele Martino was an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Created a cardinal in 2003, Martino became the longest serving cardinal deacon, the cardinal protodeacon, from June 2014. He served for more than twenty years in the diplomatic service of the Holy See, including sixteen years as Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations. He held positions in the Roman Curia from 2002 to 2009.
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Jozef De Kesel
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishopuniversity teachertheologian
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Jozef De Kesel is a Belgian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels from 2015 to 2023. He previously served there as auxiliary bishop from 2002 to 2010. He served as Bishop of Bruges from 2010 to 2015 and was made a cardinal in 2016.
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Frei Damião
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- missionary
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Damião de Bozzano O.F.M. Cap., born as Pio Giannotti, was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member from the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin who served in the Brazilian missions for over six decades. Giannotti entered the order when he was twelve to do his ecclesial studies and religious formation of which he spent some of that time in Rome. He worked as a teacher from 1928 until 1931 when he was sent to the missions in Brazil. He would remain there for the rest of his life and would go travelling often to northern Brazilian cities where he would celebrate Mass and evangelize while hearing confessions on a frequent basis.
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Michael F. Feldkamp
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- archivistwriterchurch historianhistorianjournalist
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Michael F. Feldkamp is a German historian and journalist.
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Paul Gallagher
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
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Sir Paul Richard Gallagher KCMG GCIH is a British prelate of the Catholic Church who has been Secretary for Relations with States within the Holy See's Secretariat of State since November 2014. He has worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See since 1984 and has held the rank of archbishop and apostolic nuncio since 2004, serving as nuncio in Burundi, Guatemala, and Australia.
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Edward Egan
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- theologianCatholic bishopCatholic priest
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Edward Michael Egan was an American Catholic prelate who served as bishop of Bridgeport in Connecticut from 1988 to 2000 and as archbishop of New York from 2000 to 2009. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 2001.
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Salvatore J. Cordileone
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
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Salvatore Joseph Cordileone is an American Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of San Francisco in California since 2012. He previously served as bishop of Oakland in California from 2009 to 2012 and as an auxiliary bishop for the Diocese of San Diego in California from 2002 to 2009.
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Giuseppe Betori
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- theologianCatholic bishopCatholic priest
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Giuseppe Betori is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who was Archbishop of Florence from 2008 to 2024. He became a bishop in 2001 when he was appointed secretary general of the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI), a post he held until 2008. He was elevated to the rank of cardinal in 2012.
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Zenon Grocholewski
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- university teacherCatholic priestlecturerCatholic bishopCatholic deacon
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Zenon Grocholewski was a Polish prelate of the Catholic Church, who was elevated to the rank of cardinal in 2001. He joined the Roman Curia in 1972 and served from 1999 until 2015 as Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education and Grand Chancellor of the Pontifical Gregorian University.
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Krzysztof Charamsa
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- presbyterpoetuniversity teachertheologian
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Krzysztof Olaf Charamsa is a Polish theologian and author. In 2015, after declaring he was homosexual and in a relationship, he was suspended a divinis from his position as a Catholic priest and removed from all his previous posts in the Roman Curia.
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Michael Novak
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- writerdiplomatjournalistphilosopherpolitical scientist
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Michael John Novak Jr. was an American Catholic philosopher, journalist, novelist, and diplomat. The author of more than forty books on the philosophy and theology of culture, Novak is most widely known for his book The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism (1982). In 1993 Novak was honored with an honorary doctorate at Universidad Francisco Marroquín due to his commitment to the idea of liberty. In 1994 he was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, which included a million-dollar purse awarded at Buckingham Palace. He wrote books and articles focused on capitalism, religion, and the politics of democratization.
