List of Catholic priests

This is an incomplete list of Catholic priests.

Roman Catholic Church

 * Cristóbal Diatristán de Acuña – Jesuit explorer
 * Alger of Liège – History
 * Abraham Armand – Missionary to Hawaii
 * Alexis Bachelot – Missionary to Hawaii
 * Antonio Vivaldi – Italian baroque composer
 * Erasmus of Rotterdam – Dutch priest and philosopher
 * Nicolas Aubry – French priest
 * Tissa Balasuriya – Sri Lankan Sinhala theologian
 * Mary Bastian – Murdered activist in Sri Lanka
 * David Bauer – Hockey player turned priest
 * Josef Bisig – Formerly of the Society of St. Pius X, currently of the recognized Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter
 * Martin Adolf Bormann – Son of Nazi Martin Bormann who works against Holocaust denial
 * Jim Borst – Dutch Missionary in India since 1960
 * Martin Stanislaus Brennan – Astronomer and author
 * Vincent Robert Capodanno – U.S. Navy chaplain and Medal of Honor recipient.
 * Francisco Fernández Carvajal – Author and Opus Dei priest.
 * Solanus Casey – Declared venerable by Pope John Paul II.
 * William Joseph Chaminade – Faced persecution for being a priest during the French Revolution
 * Daniele Comboni – Missionary to Africa, canonized
 * John M. Corridan – Anti-corruption activist
 * Horacio de la Costa – Filipino Jesuit and writer
 * Les Costello – A founder of the Flying Fathers exhibition hockey team
 * Peter Coudrin – Faced persecution during French Revolution, later became a missionary to Hawaii
 * James Coyle – Murdered Catholic priest
 * Johannes Czerski – German clergyman who resigned his vicariate to found German Catholicism
 * Jozef De Veuster – Canonized, worked with lepers
 * Chandra Fernando – Murdered human rights activist
 * Piero Folli – Italian antifascist parish priest
 * Joseph Freinademetz – Missionary to China, canonized
 * Mariano Gagnon – Franciscan friar and author who helped indigenous people resist the Shining Path in Peru
 * Georg Gänswein – Secretary to Pope Benedict XVI
 * Augustine Geve – Solomon Islands Catholic priest and politician, murdered in 2002
 * Lionel Groulx – French Canadian Nationalist
 * Jacques Hamel – Priest killed in the 2016 Normandy church attack.
 * Elmer Heindl – American WWII chaplain
 * Ignatius of Loyola – Founder of the Society of Jesus
 * Itō Mancio – First official Japanese emissary to Europe, after that he became a Jesuit priest
 * Saint Arnold Janssen – Missionary
 * Marcelline Jayakody, Sri Lankan Sinhala author, composer of hymns, author, journalist
 * Mychal F. Judge – Chaplain, 9-11 victim
 * Georg Joseph Kamel – Jesuit botanist of whom the Camellia is named after. Compiled works on Philippine medicinal plants, which is well known in pharmacology
 * Francis Kilcoyne (died 1985) – President of Brooklyn College
 * Georges Lemaître – Physicist and Astronomer. Proposed what would become known as the Big Bang Theory.
 * Georges-Henri Lévesque – Sociologist
 * Gerard Timoner III – The current master of the Dominican Order
 * Eustáquio van Lieshout – Did work in Brazil
 * Michael J. McGivney – Founder of the Knights of Columbus
 * Heinrich Maier – Head of an important resistance group against Nazi Germany
 * Columba Murphy – Involved in gaining an Edict of Toleration for Hawaiian Catholics
 * Hugh O'Flaherty – World War II hero
 * Nemesi Marqués Oste – Rector in Andorra and political figure there
 * Peter Pernin – Survivor and memoirist of the Peshtigo fire
 * Wolfgang Rösch – Vicar general of Limburg
 * Jean-Baptiste de La Salle – A founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools
 * Abraham a Sancta Clara – Catholic preacher in Austria
 * Francis Xavier – Jesuit missionary to Japan
 * Vinkenti Peev – Bulgarian Capuchin friar
 * Thomas Byles – English priest who stayed on board the sinking RMS Titanic hearing confessions
 * Michael Nazir-Ali – Former prominent Anglican bishop who became Catholic and was ordained a priest on the 30th of October, 2021
 * Eugine Mattioli – Longest serving Catholic missionary in Arabia
 * Mihalj Šilobod Bolšić – Roman Catholic priest, mathematician, writer, and musical theorist primarily known for writing the first Croatian arithmetic textbook Arithmatika Horvatzka (published in Zagreb, 1758)
 * David Michael Moses – American priest and musician
 * Edward Stanger – Pastor at Holy Infant Catholic Church, Ballwin

Eastern Catholic Churches

 * Ghevont Alishan – Priest of the Armenian Catholic Church who designed Armenia's first modern flag.
 * Walter Ciszek – Byzantine Rite member of the Society of Jesus who was imprisoned at Lubyanka (KGB).
 * Eddie Doherty – Ordained a priest in the Melkite Greek Catholic Church.
 * Ed Evanko – Actor who became a Ukrainian Catholic priest.
 * Nimattullah Kassab Al-Hardini – Catholic saint.
 * Louis Massignon – Scholar of Islam who transferred to the Melkite Greek Catholic Church after converting to Catholicism and later became a priest.
 * Alphonse Mingana – Chaldean Catholic Church priest and Orientalist.
 * Youakim Moubarac – Maronite Church – priest and scholar.
 * Joseph Raya – Melkite Greek Catholic priest (later archbishop) active in the U.S. civil rights movement and advocate of Israeli Christian Arabs.

Catholic exorcists

 * Father Ernst Alt
 * Father Candido Amantini
 * Gabriele Amorth – Founder of the International Association of Exorcists
 * Father Raymond J. Bishop
 * William S. Bowdern – Participated in an exorcism of Roland Doe in 1949. The incident became the basis of William Peter Blatty's novel The Exorcist.
 * Jeremy Davies
 * Father Angelo Fantoni
 * Father Jose Antonio Fortea
 * Giancarlo Gramolazzo – President of the International Association of Exorcists until his death in 2010
 * Father Alfred Kunz
 * Father Matteo La Grua
 * James J. LeBar – New York exorcist consulted with regards to films
 * Malachi Martin – Writer on unusual subjects as well as an exorcist
 * Father Theophilus Riesinger
 * Father Rosario Stroscio