Jesuits

Jogues, Jean de Brébeuf and six other martyred missionaries, all Jesuit priests or laymen associated with them, were canonized by the Roman Catholic Church in 1930; they are known as "The North American Martyrs.

Saint John Ogilvie (1579 – 10 March 1615) was a Scottish Catholic Jesuit martyr.

René Goupil, S.J.

Constanzo Beschi, also known under his Tamil name of Vīramāmunivar (Tamil: வீரமாமுனிவர்) or Constantine Joseph Beschi (in English) (8 November 1680 – 4 Feb 1742) was an Italian Jesuit priest, missionary in South India, and renowned poet in the Tamil language.

Paulo Miki (Japanese: パウロ三木; c. 1562 – 5 February 1597) was a Roman Catholic Japanese Jesuit seminarian, martyr and saint, one of the Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan.

Beckx was born — two months after the death of his father — in a very poor family.

Álvaro de Semedo (Latinized form: Alvarus de Semedo; Chinese: 曾德昭, Zeng Dezhao, earlier 謝務祿 Xie Wulu) (1585 or 1586, - 18 July, 1658), was a Portuguese Jesuit priest, missionary in China.

Hippolyte Delehaye, S.

Joseph Raphael John Crimont, SJ (February 2, 1858 – May 20, 1945) was a 20th-century bishop in the Catholic Church in the United States.

Saint Edmund Arrowsmith, SJ (1585 – 28 August 1628) is one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales of the Roman Catholic Church.

Noël Chabanel (February 2, 1613 – December 8, 1649) was a Jesuit missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, and one of the Canadian Martyrs.

Martinus Becanus (6 January 1563 – 24 January 1624) was a Flemish Jesuit priest, known as a theologian and controversialist.

Mgr. Albertus Soegijapranata, SJ ([alˈbərtʊs suˈɡijapraˈnata]; Perfected Spelling: Albertus Sugiyapranata; 25 November 1896 – 22 July 1963), better known by his birth name Soegija, was the Apostolic Vicar of Semarang and later its archbishop.

Peter Canisius, S.

Pope Francis (Latin: Franciscus; Italian: Francesco; Spanish: Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 17 December 1936) is the 266th and current Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, a title he holds ex officio as Bishop of Rome, and Sovereign of the Vatican City.

Aloys Grillmeier (1 January 1910 – 13 September 1998) was a German Jesuit priest, theologian and cardinal-deacon of the Catholic Church.

Stjepan "Stijepo" Gradić or Stefano Gradi (Latin: Stephanus Gradius; March 6, 1613 – May 2, 1683) was a philosopher, scientist and a patrician of the Republic of Ragusa.

Ján Babjak, Archbishop and Metropolitan of Prešov (October 28, 1953, Hažín Cirochou above) is Prešov residential archieparch and the highest representative of the Greek Catholic Metropolitan Church in Slovakia.

Saint Peter Claver, S.

Antonio Ruiz de Montoya was born in Lima, Peru on 13 June 1585 and died there on 11 April 1652.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ (French: [pjɛʁ tejaʁ də ʃaʁdɛ̃] (); 1 May 1881 – 10 April 1955) was a French idealist philosopher and Jesuit priest who trained as a paleontologist and geologist and took part in the discovery of Peking Man.

Jan Beyzym (15 May 1850, Volhynia – 2 October 1912, Madagascar) was a Polish Jesuit priest who was beatified on 18 August 2002 by Pope John Paul II.

Estêvão Cacella (1585 – 1630) was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary.

Alessandro Valignano, (Chinese: 范禮安 Fàn Lǐ’ān) (February 1539 – January 20, 1606 ), was an Italian Jesuit missionary born in Chieti, part of the Kingdom of Naples, who helped supervise the introduction of Catholicism to the Far East, and especially to Japan.

Ōmura Sumitada (大村 純忠, 1533 – June 23, 1587) was a Japanese daimyo lord of the Sengoku period.

Ernesto Cardenal Martínez (born January 20, 1925) is a Nicaraguan Catholic priest, poet and politician.

Cardinal Adam Kozłowiecki, S.

Adam Stanisław Naruszewicz (20 October 1733 – 8 July 1796) was a Polish-Lithuanian nobleman from an impoverished aristocratic family, poet, historian, dramatist, translator, publicist, Jesuit and titular Bishop of Smolensk (1775–1788 as suffragan bishop and 1788–1790 as full diocesan bishop) and bishop of Łuck (1790–1796).

Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita (1624 - March 29, 1688) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of Panamá (1676-1688) and the Bishop of Santa Marta (1668-1676).

(For other people named Thomas Roberts, see Thomas Roberts (disambiguation).) Thomas d'Esterre Roberts (7 March 1893 – 28 February 1976) was an English Jesuit priest, who served as Archbishop of Bombay, India from 1937 to 1950.

Johann Grueber (28 October 1623, Linz - 30 September 1680, Sárospatak, Hungary) was an Austrian Jesuit missionary and astronomer in China, and noted explorer.

Eusebio Francisco Kino, (10 August 1645 – 15 March 1711) was an Italian Jesuit, missionary, geographer, explorer, cartographer and astronomer.

Tomáš Josef Špidlík, SJ (17 December 1919 – 16 April 2010) was made a Cardinal by Pope John Paul II in 2003.

Rupert Mayer (23 January 1876 – 1 November 1945) was a German Jesuit priest and a leading figure of the Catholic resistance to Nazism in Munich.

Saint Peter Faber, S.

José Ramón Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez also known as Blessed Miguel Pro (born January 13, 1891 – executed November 23, 1927), was a Mexican Jesuit Catholic priest executed under the presidency of Plutarco Elías Calles on trumped-up charges of bombing and attempted assassination of former Mexican President Álvaro Obregón.

Very Rev. Anton Maria Anderledy, S.

Ignjat Đurđević (also Ignazio Giorgi; February, 1675 – January 21, 1737) was a Croatian baroque poet and translator best known for his long poem Uzdasi Mandaljene pokornice ("Sighs of Repentant Magdalene").

Saint Jean de Lalande (died October 19, 1646) was a Jesuit missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons and one of the eight North American Martyrs.

Mgr. Adrianus Djajasepoetra, SJ (Perfected Spelling: Adrianus Jayaseputra; 12 March 1894 – 10 July 1979), was the Vicar Apostolic of Jakarta and later its Archbishop.

Francis Doyle Gleeson, S.

Ján Chryzostom Korec, SJ (22 January 1924 – 24 October 2015) was a Slovakian Jesuit priest and a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Jean Bolland (Latin: Johannes Bollandus) (18 August 1596 – 12 September 1665) was a Jesuit priest and prominent Flemish hagiographer.

Camillus Costanzo SJ (Bovalino Superiore, 1571 – Hirado, Japan 15 September 1622) was an Italian soldier, law student and Jesuit missionary in Japan.

Mgr. Leo Soekoto, SJ (born in Jali, Gayamharjo, Prambanan, Sleman, October 23, 1920 - December 30, 1995) was Bishop General London from August 15, 1970 to his death.

Stanisław Kostka S.

Julien Maunoir (1 October 1606 – 28 January 1683) (also Julian; Breton: Juluan Maner), was a French-born Jesuit priest known as the "Apostle of Brittany".

Albert Chmielowski, C.

Camillo Tarquini (27 September 1810 in Marta, located in the Montefiascone region of Italy – 15 February 1874 in Rome) was an Italian Cardinal, Jesuit canonist and archaeologist.

Saint Melchior Grodziecki (c. 1582 - 7 September 1619) was a Polish Jesuit priest.

Daniël Seghers or Daniel Seghers (3 December 1590 – 2 November 1661) was a Flemish Jesuit brother and painter who specialized in flower still lifes.

Walter Joseph Ciszek, S.

Saint Gabriel Lalemant (October 3, 1610, Paris, France – March 17, 1649, Saint Ignace, Ontario) was a Jesuit missionary in New France beginning in 1646.

Fernando Avendaño or Fernando de Avendaño (late 16th century or early 17th century—1665), born and died in Lima, Peru, was a Catholic priest.

Claudio Acquaviva, S.

Robert Francis Taft, S.

Saint Bernardino Realino (1 December 1530 – 2 July 1616) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Jesuits.

Jurij Japelj, also known in German as Georg Japel, (11 April 1744 – 11 October 1807) was a Slovene Jesuit priest, translator, and philologist.

István Pongrácz (1584-1619) was a Hungarian Jesuit priest, martyr and saint of the Catholic Church.

St. Jose Maria Rubio (22 July 1864 – 2 May 1929) was a Spanish Jesuit, known as the Apostle of Madrid by the Bishop of Madrid.

Archbishop Cyril Vasiľ, S.

Very Rev. Jan Philipp Roothaan, S.

Saint Antoine Daniel (May 27, 1601 – July 4, 1648) was a Jesuit missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, and one of the eight Canadian Martyrs.

Jacques de Billy (March 18, 1602 – January 14, 1679) was a French Jesuit mathematician.

Giacomo Carissimi (baptized 18 April 1605 – 12 January 1674) was an Italian composer and music teacher.

Father Jacques Marquette S.

Peter Hans Kolvenbach SJ (born 30 November 1928), was the 29th Superior General of the Society of Jesus, the largest male Catholic religious order.

Saint Charles Garnier, S.

Jeremias Drexel S.

Bishop Nikolaus Messmer, S.

Father Egon Sendler (1 August 1923 – 17 March 2014) was a Roman Catholic priest of the Jesuit order and one of the world's foremost experts on the painting of Eastern Orthodox icons.

Augustin Bea, S.J.

Jean-Baptiste René (August 22, 1841 – April 6, 1916) was the second Roman Catholic Prefect Apostolic of Alaska.

Blessed Francisco Gárate Aranguren (3 February 1857 - 9 September 1929) was a Spanish Roman Catholic professed religious of the Jesuit order.

The Venerable John Sullivan (8 May 1861 – 19 February 1933) was an Irish Roman Catholic priest of the Jesuit order and was known for his life of deep prayer and personal sacrifice.

Petar Barbarić (19 May 1874 – 15 April 1897) was a Bosnian Roman Catholic novice who was in the midst of his studies for the priesthood before he died of tuberculosis.

Ippolito Desideri (21 December 1684 – 14 April 1733) was an Italian Jesuit missionary in Tibet and the first European to have successfully studied and understood Tibetan language and culture.

Saint Francis Xavier, S.