100 Notable alumni of
Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas
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The Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas is 571st in the world, 211th in Europe, and 14th in Italy by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas 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 II
- Enrolled in the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas
- 1946-1947 graduated with Licentiate of Sacred Theology
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- writerLatin Catholic priesthuman rights activistCatholic bishoppoet
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Pope John Paul II was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his death in 2005.
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Fulton J. Sheen
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- essayistCatholic bishopwritertelevision presenterradio personality
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Fulton John Sheen was an American bishop of the Catholic Church known for his preaching and especially his work on television and radio. Ordained a priest of the Diocese of Peoria in Illinois, in 1919, Sheen quickly became a renowned theologian, earning the Cardinal Mercier Prize for International Philosophy in 1923. He went on to teach theology and philosophy at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. and served as a parish priest before he was appointed auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of New York in 1951. He held this position until 1966 when he was made bishop of the Diocese of Rochester in New York. He resigned as bishop of Rochester in 1969 as his 75th birthday approached and was made archbishop of the titular see of Newport, Wales.
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Timothy M. Dolan
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- Catholic deaconCatholic bishoptransitional deaconCatholic priesttheologian
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Timothy Michael Dolan is an American cardinal of the Catholic Church. He is the tenth and current archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York in the United States, having been appointed by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009.
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Konrad Krajewski
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- Catholic priest
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Konrad Krajewski is a Polish cardinal of the Catholic Church who serves as the 1st Prefect of the Dicastery for the Service of Charity.
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Kevin Farrell
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- philosophermissionaryCatholic bishopLatin Catholic priest
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Kevin Joseph Cardinal Farrell, KGCHS, is an Irish-born senior-ranking prelate of the Catholic Church who has served as prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life (since 2016), as Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church (since 2019) and as President of the Supreme Court of Vatican City (since 2024).
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Sviatoslav Shevchuk
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- theologianCatholic deaconGreek-Catholic priesttransitional deacon
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Sviatoslav Shevchuk is a Ukrainian Catholic prelate who has served as the Major Archbishop of Kyiv–Galicia and Primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) since 25 March 2011.
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Marc Ouellet
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- Catholic priestLatin Catholic bishopuniversity teacher
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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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Donald Wuerl
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
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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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Jean-Marie Villot
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- Catholic deaconCatholic priestCatholic bishopdiplomat
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Jean-Marie Villot was a French prelate and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Lyon from 1965 to 1967, Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy from 1967 to 1969, Vatican Secretary of State from 1969 to 1979, and Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church from 1970 to 1979. He was made a cardinal in 1965.
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Józef Maria Bocheński
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- university teachertheologianwriterphilosopher
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Józef Maria Bocheński or Innocentius Bochenski was a Polish Dominican, logician and philosopher.
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Javier Echevarría Rodríguez
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- Catholic bishopOpus Dei priestLatin Catholic priestlawyerjurist
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Javier Echevarría Rodríguez was a Spanish Catholic bishop who served as the head of Opus Dei from 1994 until his death. He held doctorates in both civil and canon law.
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Edwin Frederick O'Brien
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- Catholic priesttheologianCatholic bishop
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Edwin Frederick O'Brien is an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He has been a cardinal since 2012 and headed the Order of the Holy Sepulchre from 2011 to 2019.
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Wim Eijk
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- Catholic bishopphysicianLatin Catholic priesttheologianprofessor
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Willem Jacobus "Wim" Eijk is a Dutch prelate of the Catholic Church, a cardinal since 2012. He has been the Metropolitan Archbishop of Utrecht since 2007. He was Bishop of Groningen-Leeuwarden from 1999 to 2007. Before his clerical career he worked as a doctor; as a priest he made medical ethics the focus of his academic studies.
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Mieczysław Mokrzycki
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
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Mieczysław Mokrzycki is a Polish-born Catholic prelate, currently serving as the archbishop of Lviv of the Latins in Ukraine.
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Dominique Pire
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- resistance fightertheologianpriest
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Dominique Pire, O.P. was a Belgian Dominican friar whose work helping refugees in post-World War II Europe saw him receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1958. Pire delivered his Nobel lecture, entitled Brotherly Love: Foundation of Peace, in December 1958.
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Baselios Cleemis
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- Catholic priestCatholic deaconCatholic bishop
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Baselios Cleemis is the current major archbishop-catholicos of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church. He was named to the College of Cardinals of the Catholic Church by Pope Benedict XVI on 24 November 2012.
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Alfonso López Trujillo
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- Catholic priesttheologianCatholic bishop
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Alfonso López Trujillo was a Colombian Cardinal Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church and president of the Pontifical Council for the Family.
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João Scognamiglio Clá Dias
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- Catholic priest
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João Scognamiglio Clá Dias was a Brazilian Roman Catholic priest and religious writer. He was the founder of the Heralds of the Gospel and was their Superior General until his resignation on 2 June 2017. Dias was a member of the Marian Congregation of the Third Carmelite Order from 23 May 1956, and was ordained a Roman Catholic priest on 15 June 2004. He was also the Honorary Canon of the Papal Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome. He died on 1 November 2024, at the age of 85.
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José Saraiva Martins
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- Catholic priest
- Biography
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José Saraiva Martins, C.M.F. GCC is a Portuguese cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints from 1998 to 2008.
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Adrianus Johannes Simonis
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- theologianCatholic deaconCatholic priestCatholic bishop
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Adrianus Johannes Simonis was a Dutch cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Utrecht from 1983 to 2007, and was made a cardinal in 1985.
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Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
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Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez is a Dominican cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and archbishop emeritus of Santo Domingo.
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Paolo Pezzi
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- Catholic priestuniversity teacherCatholic bishop
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Paolo Pezzi, FSCB, also known as Pavel Pezzi, is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church, currently serving as the Latin Church archbishop of the Archdiocese of Moscow in Russia.
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Mario Grech
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
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Mario Grech is a Maltese Catholic prelate who has served as Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops since 2020. He was previously Bishop of Gozo from 2005 to 2019 and Pro-Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops from 2019 to 2020.
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Ernesto Ruffini
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- Catholic priesttheologianCatholic bishop
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Ernesto Ruffini was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church, who served as Archbishop of Palermo from 1945 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1946 by Pope Pius XII.
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Eduardo Francisco Pironio
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- university teachertheologianCatholic priestCatholic bishop
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Eduardo Francisco Pironio was an Argentine Catholic prelate who served in numerous departments of the Roman Curia from 1975 to 1996. He was named a cardinal in 1976 and Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina-Poggio in 1995.
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Robert Francis Prevost
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
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Robert Francis Prevost OSA is an American Catholic who has served as prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops and president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America since 2023. He previously served as Bishop of Chiclayo in Peru from 2015 to 2023, and was Prior General of the Order of Saint Augustine from 2001 to 2013.
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Georges Cottier
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- university teachertheologianCatholic priestfriar
- Biography
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Georges Marie Martin Cottier OP was a Swiss Catholic prelate who served as Theologian of the Pontifical Household under Pope John Paul II from 1990 to 2005, after a career as a theologian and teacher. He was a member of the Dominicans and was made a cardinal in 2003.
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Álvaro Corcuera
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- Catholic priest
- Biography
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Álvaro Corcuera Martínez del Río LC was a Mexican Roman Catholic priest. He was the former General Director of the Catholic Order of the Legion of Christ, serving since January 2005. On October 15, 2012, he went on sabbatical until the convocation of a general chapter; he had an advanced incurable brain tumor, which was undiagnosed at the time.
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Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo
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- university teacherCatholic priestCatholic bishopphilosopher
- Biography
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Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo is an Argentine prelate of the Catholic Church who was Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences from 1998 to 2022. He was made a bishop in 2001. Having authored many publications in the sciences, he received several honors, including the Légion d’Honneur of France in 2000.
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Wojciech Giertych
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- Catholic priestuniversity teacher
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Wojciech Giertych O.P. is a Polish Roman Catholic priest in the Dominican Order. He has served in the Prefecture of the Pontifical Household as Theologian of the Pontifical Household since 2005 during the pontificates of Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis.
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Johannes Willebrands
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- Catholic priesttheologianCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Johannes Gerardus Maria Willebrands was a Dutch Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity from 1969 to 1989, and Archbishop of Utrecht from 1975 to 1983. Elevated to the cardinalate in 1969, Willebrands was central to the increased ecumenism of the Church in the second half of the 20th century, and was considered papabile at the two conclaves held in 1978.
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Bernardito Auza
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- Latin Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Bernardito Cleopas Auza is a Filipino prelate of the Catholic Church. He is the current Apostolic Nuncio to Spain, appointed to that position on 1 October 2019. Prior to this, he served under the diplomatic service of the Holy See, as well as being the Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations from 2014 to 2019. He is a member of the Priestly Fraternities of Saint Dominic.
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Gilberto Agustoni
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- Catholic priesttheologianCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Gilberto Agustoni was a Swiss prelate of the Catholic Church. He worked in the Roman Curia from 1950 to 1998, ending his career as head of the Apostolic Signatura from 1992 to 1998. He became a cardinal in 1994.
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John Patrick Foley
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- Catholic priestCatholic deacon
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John Patrick Foley was an American cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. From 2007 until 2011, he was Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, an order of knighthood under papal protection, having previously served as President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications from 1984 to 2007. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 2007. He provided the commentary for the American television viewers of the Christmas Midnight Mass from St Peter's Basilica, Rome. However, in 2009, he retired from that role after 25 years. The commentary was taken over by Monsignor Thomas Powers of the Diocese of Bridgeport, Connecticut, an official in the Congregation for Bishops.
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Zbigniew Kiernikowski
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
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Zbigniew Kiernikowski is a Polish prelate of the Catholic Church who was bishop of Legnica from 2014 to 2021 and of Siedlce from 2002 to 2014.
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Mieczysław Maliński
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- opinion journalistjournalistpoetwriterCatholic priest
- Biography
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Monsignor Mieczyslaw Malinski was a Polish Catholic priest, theologian and writer.
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Nicola Canali
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- Catholic priest
- Biography
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Nicola Canali was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as president of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State from 1939 and as Major Penitentiary from 1941 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1935. He was Grand Master of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, a prestigious papal order of knighthood, from 1949 until 1960.
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Velasio de Paolis
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- Catholic priestuniversity teacherCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Velasio de Paolis, C.S., JCD, STL, was an Italian member of the Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo (Scalabrinians) and a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was President of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See and Pontifical Delegate for the religious institute of the Legionaries of Christ.
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James Aloysius Hickey
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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James Aloysius Hickey was an American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Washington from 1980 to 2000, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1988. Hickey previously served as Bishop of Cleveland from 1974 to 1980.
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Dominique Lebrun
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- Catholic bishoptheologianCatholic deaconCatholic priestlawyer
- Biography
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Dominique Lebrun is a French Roman Catholic prelate. Bishop of Saint-Étienne from 2006 to 2015, he was appointed Archbishop of Rouen and Primate of Normandy in July 2015.
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Fernando Sebastián Aguilar
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- Latin Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Fernando Sebastián Aguilar CMF was a Spanish cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and the Archbishop Emeritus of Pamplona y Tudela. Pope Francis elevated him to the rank of cardinal in a consistory on February 22, 2014.
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Julián Herranz Casado
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- Catholic priestphysicianuniversity teacher
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Julián Herranz Casado is a Spanish cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as President of the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts in the Roman Curia from 1994 to 2007, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 2003 by Pope John Paul II.
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Gintaras Grušas
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- computer scientistCatholic bishopCatholic priestuniversity teachertheologian
- Biography
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Gintaras Grušas is a Lithuanian-American Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of Vilnius since 2013. He was previously Bishop of the Military Ordinariate of Lithuania from 2010 to 2013.
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Johannes de Jong
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- resistance fightertheologianCatholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Johannes de Jong was a Dutch Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Utrecht from 1936 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1946 by Pope Pius XII.
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Kevin Vann
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Kevin William Vann is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as bishop of the Diocese of Orange in Southern California since 2012. Vann previously served as bishop of the Diocese of Fort Worth in Texas from 2005 to 2012.
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Angelo Vincenzo Zani
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- Catholic bishopuniversity teacherCatholic priesttheologianphilosopher
- Biography
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Angelo Vincenzo Zani is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church, who was named Archivist and Librarian of the Holy Roman Church in September 2022. He was the Secretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education, its second-highest officer, from November 2012 to September 2022 after serving as its third-highest official for ten years. He has been an archbishop since 2013.
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Giuseppe Sciacca
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- judgephilosopherCatholic bishopCatholic priesttheologian
- Biography
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Giuseppe Sciacca is the current Secretary of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura since his appointment by Pope Francis on July 16, 2016, replacing the retiring Archbishop Frans Daneels. Previously, he had served as Adjunct Secretary of the Apostolic Signatura, since Saturday, 24 August 2013. Previously, he had been serving as the Secretary General of the Governatorate of Vatican City State since his appointment by Benedict XVI on 3 September 2011.
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Varkey Vithayathil
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- Catholic priestuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Varkey Vithayathil CSsR was an Indian cardinal who served as the Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church and Archeparchy of Ernakulam-Angamaly from 1999 to 2011. He was also a religious priest of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer.
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José Raúl Vera López
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- Catholic priesthuman rights activistCatholic bishop
- Biography
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José Raúl Vera López is a Mexican friar of the Dominican Order. He was the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saltillo from 2000 to 2020. He is known as well for his struggle for human rights and social justice.
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Jose S. Palma
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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José Serofia Palma O.P. is a Filipino prelate and a professed member of the Dominican Order who is currently serving as the Archbishop of Cebu since 15 October 2010. He had previously served as Archbishop of Palo in Leyte. He also served as president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines from 2011 to 2013.
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Fortunatus Nwachukwu
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- Catholic priestwriter
- Biography
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Fortunatus Nwachukwu // is a Nigerian prelate of the Catholic Church who works in the Roman Curia as secretary of the Section of First Evangelization of the Dicastery for Evangelization. He joined the diplomatic service of the Holy See in 1994 and held the rank of apostolic nuncio from 2012, when he also became an archbishop.
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Giorgio Demetrio Gallaro
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- Catholic priestCatholic deaconCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Giorgio Demetrio Gallaro is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as secretary of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches from 25 February 2020 until 15 February 2023. He was the Bishop of the Eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi, a diocese of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church in Sicily, Italy from 2015 to 2020, where he remained Apostolic Administrator until 19 June 2023.
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Paul D. Etienne
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Paul Dennis Étienne is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Seattle in Washington State since 2019.
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Gilles Wach
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- Catholic priest
- Biography
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Gilles Wach is a French Roman Catholic priest, co-founder and Prior General of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest, a society of apostolic life of pontifical right.
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Aloysius Ambrozic
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- university teachertheologianCatholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Aloysius Matthew Ambrozic was a Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Toronto. He was made a cardinal on 21 February 1998.
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José Bueno y Monreal
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- Latin Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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José María Bueno y Monreal was a Spanish cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Seville from 1957 to 1982, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1958.
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J. Peter Sartain
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- Catholic theologianarchbishopCatholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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James Peter Sartain, better known as Peter Sartain, is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the fifth archbishop of the Archdiocese of Seattle in Washington State from 2010 to 2019.
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Jerome Edward Listecki
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Jerome Edward Listecki is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the eleventh archbishop of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee from 2010 to 2025.
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Mesrob II Mutafyan of Constantinople
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- priest
- Biography
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Archbishop Mesrob II Mutafyan, or Mutafian, also known as Mesrop Mutafyan in Eastern Armenian transliteration (16 June 1956 – 8 March 2019), was the 84th Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople. The Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople is one of the four Sees of Armenian Apostolic Church (the other three being Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, the Holy See of Cilicia and the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem) and has an autocephalous status, accepting, on the other hand, spiritual supremacy of the Catholicos of Armenia and of all Armenians in Holy Echmiadzin.
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Sebastian Francis
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Sebastian Francis is a Malaysian prelate of the Catholic Church. He has been Bishop of Penang since 2011. Pope Francis elevated him to the rank of cardinal on 30 September 2023. He is the second cardinal from Malaysia after Anthony Soter Fernandez.
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Leonard Paul Blair
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Leonard Paul Blair is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, who served as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Hartford in Connecticut from December 2013 to May 2024.
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Pedro López Quintana
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- Catholic priest
- Biography
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Pedro López Quintana is a Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church who has worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See since 1984. Since becoming an archbishop in 2003, he has been the head of the papal offices in India, Nepal, Canada, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia. He has been Apostolic Nuncio to Austria since March 2019.
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Giovanni Battista de' Rossi
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- presbyter
- Biography
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Giovanni Battista de' Rossi was an Italian Roman Catholic priest. He served as the canon of Santa Maria in Cosmedin after his cousin, who was a priest serving there, died. He was a popular confessor despite his initial fears that his epileptic seizures could manifest in the Confessional. Rossi opened a hospice for homeless women not long after his ordination, and he became known for his work with prisoners and ill people, to whom he dedicated his entire ecclesial mission.
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José Antônio Peruzzo
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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José Antônio Peruzzo is a Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been Archbishop of Curitiba since January 2015. He was Bishop of Palmas–Francisco Beltrão from 2005 to 2015.
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Servais-Théodore Pinckaers
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- university teacherCatholic priesttheologianwriterphilosopher
- Biography
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Servais-Théodore Pinckaers OP was a noted moral theologian, Roman Catholic priest, and member of the Dominican Order (Order of Preachers). He has been especially influential in the renewal of a theological and Christological approach to Christian virtue ethics.
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Alexander King Sample
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Alexander King Sample is an American Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of Portland since 2013. He previously served as Bishop of Marquette from 2005 to 2013.
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Anton Durcovici
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- Catholic priesttheologianCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Anton Durcovici was a Romanian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church and the Bishop of Iași from 1947 until his death. Durcovici was a victim of Romania's Communist regime, under which he was imprisoned; he died while in jail. He was known for being a zealous bishop who visited each parish within the confines of his diocese and known for his efforts in preaching the Gospel to all that he could. He likewise was known for his staunch commitment to the values of the Gospel and for his allegiance to the Church which led to his false arrest and imprisonment at the hands of the communist regime. Durcovici was a professor of seminarians and taught his students subjects such as canon law. His zeal as a priest led to his appointment in Bucharest as a rector for seminarians and his renown in Romania led to his episcopal appointment as a bishop.
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Martin Grabmann
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- university teachertheologianhistorianphilosopher
- Biography
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Martin Grabmann was a German Roman Catholic priest, medievalist and historian of theology and philosophy. He was a pioneer of the history of medieval philosophy and has been called "the greatest Catholic scholar of his time."
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Henricus Pidyarto Gunawan
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Henricus Pidyarto Gunawan O.Carm. is an Indonesian Roman Catholic bishop.
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Carlo Agostini
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- Catholic bishopCatholic priesttheologianwriterpedagogue
- Biography
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Carlo Agostini was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as Patriarch of Venice from 1949 until his death, and died shortly after the announcement for his elevation to the cardinalate in 1952.
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Teodor Kubina
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- Catholic priestjournalistCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Teodor Filip Kubina was a Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Częstochowa.
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Carlos Azpiroz Costa
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- Catholic deaconCatholic priestfriarCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Carlos Alfonso Azpiroz Costa, O.P. is an Argentinian Catholic friar of the Order of Preachers who has served as the Archbishop of Bahia Blanca since 2015. He was previously his religious order's superior general from 2001 to 2010.
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Paul Cremona
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- Latin Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Paul Cremona, O.P. was the Archbishop of Malta from 2007 to 2014. He is also a Dominican friar.
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Robert Byrne
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Robert Byrne, C.O. is a prelate of the Catholic Church in England. He was the 14th Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle from 2019 to 2022. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Birmingham and the titular bishop of Cuncacestre. He is the first Oratorian to be appointed a bishop in England since 1874.
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Anil Couto
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Anil Joseph Thomas Couto is the serving archbishop of the Archdiocese of Delhi.
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Michael Owen Jackels
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Mons. Michael Owen Jackels is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the metropolitan archbishop of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Dubuque from 2013 to 2023. He previously served as the bishop of the Diocese of Wichita in Kansas. Jackels was consecrated bishop on April 4, 2005.
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Miguel Maury Buendía
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- Catholic priest
- Biography
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Miguel Maury Buendía is a Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church who has spent his career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See. An archbishop since 2008, he has been apostolic nuncio to several countries. On 13 April 2023, he was appointed as nuncio to Great Britain.
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Juan Ignacio Larrea Holguín
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishoplawyer
- Biography
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Juan Ignacio Larrea Holguín, was archbishop of Guayaquil for ten years, and the first member of the prelature of Opus Dei in Ecuador. He was also a distinguished lawyer, frequently consulted about Ecuadorian Civil law and the author of more than 60 books about jurisprudence.
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Vicente Jiménez Zamora
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- Catholic priestLatin Catholic bishop
- Biography
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Vicente Jiménez Zamora is a Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church who has been the Archbishop of Zaragoza from 2014 to 2020. He was Bishop of Osma-Soria from 2004 to 2007 and Bishop of Santander from 2007 to 2014.
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Geraldo Lyrio Rocha
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Geraldo Lyrio Rocha was a Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate. He served as bishop of Colatina from 1990 to 2002, archbishop of Vitória da Conquista from 2002 to 2007 and Mariana from 2007 to 2018.
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Alberto Giraldo Jaramillo
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Alberto Giraldo Jaramillo PSS was a Colombian Roman Catholic priest, prelate, and member of the Society of the Priests of Saint Sulpice. Giraldo served as the first Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Chiquinquirá from its creation on April 26, 1977, until July 26, 1983, and the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cúcuta from 1983 to 1990. He was then appointed Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Popayán from 1990 to 1997 and Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Medellín from February 1997 until his retirement in February 2010. He was also President of the Episcopal Conference of Colombia from July 1996 to July 2002.
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Michel Tamarati
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- historian
- Biography
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Michel Tamarati was a Georgian Catholic priest and historian. He is known for his oft-cited French-language history of the Georgian Christianity, L'Eglise géorgienne des origines jusqu' à nos jours, published in Rome in 1910. He died in 1911 while trying to rescue a drowning man in stormy sea near Santa Marinella, Italy.
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Francisco de Aquino Correia
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- writerCatholic priestpoetCatholic bishop
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Francisco de Aquino Correia was a Brazilian Catholic priest, poet, and politician. He was the tenth archbishop of Cuiabá, president (governor) of the state of Mato Grosso from 1918 to 1922, and a leading cultural figure of the state in the early 20th century. Aquino Correia was an accomplished poet and writer and became the first citizen of Mato Grosso native to belong to the Brazilian Academy of Letters. He was also one of the founding members of the Mato Grosso Academy of Letters (Academia Mato-grossense de Letras) and the Mato Grosso Historical and Geographical Institute (Instituto Histórico e Geográfico de Mato Grosso).
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Marcos G. McGrath
- Occupations
- Catholic priestCatholic deaconCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Mark Gregory "Marcos Gregorio" McGrath, CSC, was an American-Panamanian Catholic prelate and priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross who served as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Panamá and was a Council Father of the Second Vatican Council. He advocated for the return of the Panama Canal Zone to Panama and opposed the regime of Manuel Noriega.
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Vicente Juan Segura
- Occupations
- Catholic priestdiplomatCatholic bishop
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Vicente Juan Segura was a Spanish Roman Catholic prelate who was bishop of Ibiza from his episcopal ordination on 14 May 2005 until 18 January 2020 and auxiliary bishop of Valencia from 18 January 2020 until his resignation on 25 February 2023. Juan Segura was also head of the Spanish section of the Vatican Secretariat of State.
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Richard John Garcia
- Occupations
- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Richard John Garcia was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the fourth bishop of the Diocese of Monterey in California from 2007 until his death in 2018. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Sacramento in California from 1998 to 2007
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Antonio Arregui Yarza
- Occupations
- Catholic priesttheologianCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Antonio Arregui Yarza is the Roman Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of Guayaquil Ecuador.
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Rafael Llano Cifuentes
- Occupations
- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Rafael Llano Cifuentes was a Mexican-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate.
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Manuel Sánchez Cuesta
- Occupations
- writeruniversity teacherphilosopher
- Biography
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Manuel Sánchez Cuesta is philosopher, ethicist and humanist.
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Louis-Albert Vachon
- Occupations
- Catholic priestuniversity teacherCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Louis-Albert Vachon, CC OQ was a Canadian educator, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, and Archbishop of Quebec.
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Andrew H. Cozzens
- Occupations
- Catholic priestCatholic deaconCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Andrew Harmon Cozzens is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who has been serving as Bishop of Crookston in Minnesota since 2021. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis in Minnesota from 2013 to 2021.
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Benjamín de Arriba y Castro
- Occupations
- Catholic priestLatin Catholic bishop
- Biography
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Benjamín de Arriba y Castro was a Catholic cardinal and archbishop.
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Andreas Franz Frühwirth
- Occupations
- theologianCatholic priestfriarCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Andreas Frühwirth, was an Austrian friar of the Dominican Order. He was promoted to the rank of cardinal of the Catholic Church and served as the Major Penitentiary of Apostolic Penitentiary.
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Michael Duca
- Occupations
- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Michael Gerard Duca is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as bishop of the Diocese of Baton Rouge in Louisiana since his installation on August 24, 2018. He previously served as the bishop of the Diocese of Shreveport in Louisiana from 2008 to 2018.
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Noël Kinsella
- Enrolled in the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas
- In 1965 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- psychologistpolitician
- Biography
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Noël Augustus Kinsella PC CD was a Canadian politician and was speaker of the Senate of Canada from 2006 to 2014.
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Carlo Chiarlo
- Occupations
- Catholic priest
- Biography
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Carlo Chiarlo was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as nuncio to several countries, mostly Latin American, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1958.
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David Choby
- Occupations
- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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David Raymond Choby was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the 11th bishop of the Diocese of Nashville in Tennessee from 2005 until his death in 2017. He previously served as diocesan administrator for the diocese from 2004 to 2006.
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Tit Liviu Chinezu
- Occupations
- clericRomanian Greek-Catholic bishop
- Biography
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Tit Liviu Chinezu was a Romanian bishop of the Greek-Catholic Church.
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Kenneth Nowakowski
- Occupations
- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Kenneth Anthony Adam Nowakowski is the bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Holy Family of London. He was ordained a priest on August 19, 1989 at St. George's Cathedral in Saskatoon, SK and a bishop on July 24, 2007 in Vancouver, BC. On January 15, 2020, he was appointed as bishop of Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Holy Family of London.
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Timothy T. O'Donnell
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- theologian
- Biography
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Timothy Terrance O'Donnell is an academic and Catholic theologian and the former president of Christendom College, located in Front Royal, Virginia. He stepped down from his position as president after the completion of the 2023-2024 academic year, having served as the college’s third president for 32 years.
