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Ignatius of Loyola , recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church, founded the Society of Jesus in 1540.
This is an alphabetical list of historically notable members of the
Society of Jesus .
A
Piotr Abramowicz (1619-1697), Polish missionary
José de Acosta , Spanish
historian ; author of The Natural and Moral History of the Indies
Rodolfo Acquaviva , Italian Jesuit missionary and priest in India
François d'Aguilon , Belgian mathematician and
physicist
Mateo Aimerich , Spanish
philologist
Giacomo Maria Airoli , Italian Orientalist and scriptural commentator
Edward Alacampe , English philosopher;
Procurator of Rome
Giulio Alenio , Italian missionary to China, called the "
Confucius of the West"
Claude-Jean Allouez , French Jesuit, missionary to
Wisconsin
Diego Francisco Altamirano , Spanish author
Charles Aylmer , Irish Jesuit, superior of the Dublin Residence
Jean Joseph Marie Amiot , French missionary to China
José de Anchieta , Spanish missionary in Brazil, founder of
São Paulo ,
Brazil
Saint
Modeste Andlauer , martyred in China
Antal Andrassy , second Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rozsnyó
Yves Marie André , French mathematician, philosopher, and essayist
Juan Andrés , prolific 18th-century Spanish writer
Renatus Andrieux , victim of the
September massacres
Francesco degli Angeli , missionary to Ethiopia
Johannes Arnoldi, German missionary, martyred in Germany
Saint
Edmund Arrowsmith , one of the
Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
Stefano Arteaga , Spanish writer
Fr.
Pedro Arrupe , 28th
Superior General of the Society of Jesus who led the first rescue party in
Hiroshima after the dropping of the
atomic bomb .
Xabier Arzalluz , Spanish
Basque leader; later left the Society
Berndt David Assarsson (1892-1955), Swedish
monsignor , historical author and psalmist
Joanna of Austria, Princess of Portugal , reputed to have taken the order's vows under the name Mateo Sánchez
Hyacinthe Robillard d'Avrigny (1675-1719), historian
Miguel de Ayatumo, venerated Filipino seminarian dubbed as "Saint Aloysius Gonzaga of the Philippines"
B
Pope Francis
Blessed
Jan Beyzym , Missionary in Madagascar
Tadeusz Brzozowski (1749-1820) first post-restoration General
Jakob Balde , German
latinist , court chaplain to
Maximillian I
John Ballard , English Jesuit priest executed for being involved in
an attempt to assassinate Queen
Elizabeth I of England
Hans Urs von Balthasar , 20th-century theologian, Jesuit from 1928 to 1950 when he left the order to found a new community with
Adrienne von Speyr
Balthazar of Loyola , Moroccan prince who converted to Christianity and became a Jesuit priest
Cipriano Barace , Spanish missionary and martyr
Ignacio Martín-Baró , martyr in El Salvador
Pedro Barreto , Peruvian cardinal proclaimed by
Pope Francis in 2018.
Augustin Barruel , French writer
Florian Baucke ,
Silesian and
Bohemian Jesuit missionary to South America
Michel Baudouin , Superior-General of the Louisiana Mission (1749-1763)
Joseph Bayma , wrote "Molecular Mechanics" in 1866
Augustin Bea , German cardinal,
Ecumenist at the Vatican II council
Nicolas-Ignace de Beaubois , French missionary to Quebec
Jan Beckx , Belgian
Superior General (1853-1887)
Franz Jozef van Beeck , Dutch theologian who taught in the US
Joop Beek , Dutch and Indonesian educator and presidential political advisor
Johann Adam Schall von Bell , German missionary to China; astronomer
Saint
Robert Bellarmine , Italian Cardinal and theologian,
Doctor of the Church
Aloysius Bellecius (1704-1757), Jesuit ascetic author
Saint
John Berchmans , Jesuit seminarian from Belgium
Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Pope Francis), Argentine, first Jesuit to be elected
Pope (2013)
Thomas V. Bermingham , American academic who worked on
The Exorcist
Prosper Bernard , Canadian missionary to China, killed by the Japanese
Joaquin G. Bernas , Filipino constitutionalist
Daniel Berrigan , American political activist, poet, and professor at
Fordham University
Saint
Jacques Berthieu , French Jesuit priest, missionary and first blessed Martyr of
Madagascar
Blessed
Jan Beyzym , Polish missionary to people with
Leprosy in Madagascar
Giuseppe Biancani , very early
selenographer
Jacob Bidermann , theologian and playwright - inspired
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Jacques de Billy , correspondent of
Pierre de Fermat , many early contributions in
number theory
Erwin Bischofberger , Swedish Jesuit and medical practitioner
Leopold Biwald , 18th-century Austrian physics professor and textbook author
Saint
Andrew Bobola , Polish missionary, martyred by the
Cossacks
Nicholas Bock , Russian diplomat who later became a Jesuit priest
Michael Bordt , German philosopher and academic
Saint
Francis Borgia , third
Superior General of the Society
Ruggero Boscovich ,
Croatian scientist who made many contributions to physics and astronomy
Giovanni Botero , Italian thinker, discharged from the Society in 1579
Joachim Bouvet , early missionary to China and a leading member of the
Figurist movement
Louis Bourdaloue , French preacher and orator
William S. Bowdern ,
exorcist who inspired the novel and film
The Exorcist
Greg Boyle , director and founder of
Homeboy Industries
Joseph A. Bracken , American philosopher and Catholic theologian
Dean Brackley , Professor of Theology at the Central American University, San Salvador
Niklaus Brantschen , Swiss
Zen master, author, and founder of the
Lassalle-Institut
Saint
Jean de Brébeuf , 17th-century
French -Canadian missionary and martyr
Saint
Alexander Briant , English martyr
Frank Brennan , Officer of the
Order of Australia for services to Aboriginal Australians
Franz Brentano , philosopher who founded his own school of thought, the
School of Brentano
John Brignon , translator of religious works into French
Peter Michael Brillmacher , German preacher during the
Counter Reformation
Jean de Brisacier , controversialist and opponent of
Jansenism
Saint
John de Brito , Portuguese martyr and missionary to
Madura , India (present-day
Tamil Nadu )
Stephen Brown (Jesuit) , founder of the
Central Catholic Library
Tadeusz Brzozowski , Polish scholar, having secured its continuity during the
suppression of the Society until its restoration, elected twentieth
Superior General of the Society of Jesus and its first world-wide general.
[1]
Claude Buffier , aimed to discover the ultimate principal of knowledge, praised by
Voltaire
Joannes Busaeus , theologian at
Mainz University who wrote in defence of the introduction of the
Gregorian calendar in Germany
William J. Byron , President of the
University of Scranton (1975-1982), President of
Catholic University of America (1982-1992), Interim President of
Loyola University New Orleans (2003-2004), President of
St. Joseph's Preparatory School (2006-2008)
C
Niccolò Cabeo , many early contributions to physics
Pedro de Calatayud , missionary
Saint
Edmund Campion , English martyr
Saint
Petrus Canisius , Dutch theologian, writer of the widely used Little Catechism ; Doctor of the Church
James Carney , American missionary who ministered to peasants and left-wing insurgents in Honduras
John Carroll , first bishop of the United States and founder of
Georgetown University
Paolo Casati , Mathematician, supported
Galileo
John II Casimir Vasa , king of the
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Louis Bertrand Castel , French scientist
Leonardo Castellani , 20th-century Argentine writer and theologian
Giuseppe Castiglione , Italian Jesuit brother; artist to the Chinese Emperor
Saint
Juan del Castillo , martyr of the
Río de la Plata
Juan Paez de Castro , priest and confessor to King
Philip II of Spain
Jean Pierre de Caussade , spiritual director, college rector, and author of Abandonment to Divine Providence
Jean-Antoine du Cerceau , French Jesuit priest, poet, and playwright
Michel de Certeau , French cultural theorist
Francesco Cetti , mathematician and
zoologist
Saint
Noël Chabanel , North American martyr
Timoléon Cheminais de Montaigu , 17th century orator
Pierre Cholenec , Superior of Montreal
Stephen Cardinal Chow Sau-yan , 9th Bishop of Hong Kong, Former Provincial superior of the Chinese Province
Drew Christiansen , nuclear expert and disarmament consultant to the Holy See
Walter Ciszek , missionary and religious prisoner in Soviet Union; author
Saint
Peter Claver , Spanish missionary in South America
Christopher Clavius , main architect of the modern
Gregorian calendar
Saint
Claude de la Colombière , preacher to the seventh
Duchess of York ,
Mary of Modena
Louis le Comte , early missionary to China
Guy Consolmagno , Vatican astronomer
Frederick Copleston , English writer, author of the definitive History of Philosophy
Honoré-Gaspard de Coriolis , French cleric and historian
John M. Corridan , labor activist and "Waterfront priest" whose story inspired the classic film
On the Waterfront
Horacio de la Costa , Philippine historian and first Filipino Jesuit provincial superior in the Philippines
Jacques Courtois , 17th-century French painter
François Crépieul , 17th-century French missionary in Canada
Saint
Roque González de Santa Cruz , Paraguayan missionary and martyr
James Cullen , Irish temperance campaigner who founded the
Pioneer Total Abstinence Association
Johann Baptist Cysat , published the first printed European book concerning Japan
Stanislaus Czerniewicz , Lithuanian-Polish priest, elected vicar general for Jesuits in Russia when the Society of Jesus was suppressed
Stanisław Czerski ,
Polish
graphic designer
D
Fr. Joseph O'Callahan (right ), a Jesuit priest, is presented with the
Medal of Honor by President Truman
Claude Dablon , Superior General of all the Canadian missions (1670-1680)
Saint
Antoine Daniel , North American martyr
Cardinal
Jean Daniélou , author, scholar, and member of the
French Academy
Alfred Delp , German hanged for his opposition to
Hitler
Saint
Paul Denn , martyred in China
Robert De Nobili , famous Italian missionary to India (
Madurai Mission ), who tried to inculturate Christian values to the Indian culture
Henri Depelchin , Belgian missionary, pioneer, writer and educator in India and Africa
Pedro Descoqs , French Jesuit philosopher and supporter of
Action Française
Ippolito Desideri , Italian Jesuit missionary to Tibet
Paul de Barry , rector of the Jesuit colleges at
Aix ,
Nîmes , and Avignon, and Provincial of
Lyon .
Pierre-Jean De Smet , active missionary among the Native Americans of the Western United States in the mid-19th century
Richard De Smet , Jesuit Indologist (Sankara specialist), Professor of Phisosophy, JnanaDeep Vidyapeeth, Pune, Maharashtra, India; prolific writer and contributor to the Marathi Encyclopaedia of Philosophy
William Detré , 17th century missionary in the Amazon
Salvatore di Pietro , Italian missionary and first apostolic prefect to Belize, Central America
Pedro Díaz , missionary
John Donne , English poet and cleric in the Church of England (no evidence)
Eduardo Dougherty , American-Brazilian educator, communicator and leader of the
Catholic Charismatic Renewal in
Brazil
Robert Drinan , first Catholic priest to serve as a voting member of
U.S. Congress (congressman from Massachusetts)
[a]
Gabriel Druillettes , Apostle of Maine, missionary and explorer
Francis Bennon Ducrue , Bavarian missionary to Mexico
Peter Dufka , Slovakian priest and professor at the
Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome
Cardinal
Avery Dulles , American theologian and professor at
Fordham University
Jacques Dupuis , theologian, edited The Christian Faith which went to seven editions
E
F
Francis Xavier, one of the first seven Jesuits and missionary to Asia
Saint
Peter Faber , early companion of
Ignatius of Loyola , co-founder of the Society of Jesus; missionary in Germany
Honoré Fabri , first to explain why the sky is blue
Jean-Charles della Faille , first to determine the center of gravity of the sector of a circle
Thomas Falkner , English Jesuit missionary
Leonard Feeney , ultra-conservative American theologian
Wolfgang Feneberg , German Jesuit convert to Evangelical Lutheranism
Richard Michael Fernando , Filipino Jesuit cleric, missionary in
Cambodia and
Servant of God
Joseph Fessio , publisher of Ignatius Press
Joseph M. Finotti , pastor of Saint Mary's parish in
Alexandria, Virginia ; pastor of
Saint Ignatius parish in Oxon Hill, Maryland ; librarian at
Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
Pierre-René Floquet , Quebec-based priest sympathetic to the Americans during the American Revolutionary War
Jean de Fontaney , missionary to China
Balthazar Francolini , attritionist professor at the
Gregorian University who wrote Clericus Romanus Contra Nimium Rigorismum Munitus in 1707 against
Jansenism
Saint Francis Xavier , co-founder of the Society of Jesus and missionary to Asia who initiated a large conversion movement in India,
Malacca , and Japan
Luís Fróis , Portuguese missionary to Japan; author of a history of Japan
Fabian Fucan , Japanese Jesuit brother who converted to
Zen Buddhism
Jon Fuller , medical doctor known for his work with
AIDS patients
G
Robert Bellarmine, one of the most important cardinals of the Catholic Reformation
Saint
Melchior Grodziecki , martyr
Père Louis Gaillard , French missionary to China
Marion M. Ganey , pioneer in
credit union and
coop movement in
British Honduras and the South
Pacific
Saint
Henry Garnet , first English Provincial; executed after being implicated in the
Gunpowder Plot
Saint
Charles Garnier , North America martyr
John Gerard , English Jesuit; one of the few men to escape from the Tower of London
Jean-François Gerbillon , early missionary to China
Aquiles Gerste , philologist and linguist best known for his ethnographic and linguistic studies of the indigenous peoples of Mexico
Niccolò Gianpriamo , Italian missionary to China, astronomer
Filippo Salvatore Gilii , contributor in the field of South American
historical linguistics
Paul Goethals , Belgian, first Archbishop of
Calcutta
Saint
Aloysius Gonzaga , Italian jesuit; patron saint of students
Thyrsus González , Spanish 13th Superior General of the Society of Jesus
José Ignacio González Faus , Professor of Theology at the Faculty of Theology of Catalonia
John Goodman , jailed in England during the
Long Parliament
Saint
John Soan de Goto , martyred in Japan
Saint
René Goupil , Jesuit brother and North American martyr
Baltasar Gracián , Spanish prose writer
Francesco Maria Grimaldi , 17th-century Italian mathematician, physicist and astronomer; accurately mapped the Moon; one of the first to suggest the wave-like nature of light
Saint
Melchior Grodziecki , Polish martyr, patron of the city of
Katowice
Gabriel Gruber , Viennese scientist, engineer and teacher, elected Vicar General of the Russian province during the Suppression of the Society
Paul Guldin , father of
Guldinus theorem
José Gumilla , naturalist who studied the
Orinoco , South America
Bartolomeu de Gusmão , Brazilian-Portuguese priest and mathematician; said to be an early inventor of the
dirigible
H
Gerard Manley Hopkins, an English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and priest
Juraj Habdelić ,
Croatian writer and
lexicographer
Cyrus Habib , American politician turned Jesuit
Walter Halloran , assistant in the exorcism which inspired the novel and film
The Exorcist
John Hardon , wrote
The Catholic Catechism and many other works
Peter Hasslacher , German preacher
Irénée Hausherr ,
Alsatian specialist in Greek
patristic and monastic spirituality
Bernhard Havestadt , German missionary in Chile
Timothy Healy , late president of
Georgetown University and president of the
New York Public Library system
Martin Heidegger , German philosopher who was briefly a Jesuit novice
Raymond Helmick , American theologian and author
Daniel S. Hendrickson , 25th president of
Creighton University
David Francis Hickey , American missionary bishop of Belize, Central America
Robert Louis Hodapp , American missionary bishop of Belize, Central America
John-Baptist Hoffmann , German Apostle of the
Mundas in India
Ferdinand Augustin Hallerstein , missionary to China that was made a
mandarin
Christopher Holywood , Irish priest of the Counter-Reformation
Eduardo Hontiveros , Filipino philosopher, theologian and composer of sacred and liturgical music
Frederick C. Hopkins , English missionary to Belize Central America; bishop and vicar apostolic
Gerard Manley Hopkins , renowned English poet
Johann Baptiste Horvath , 18th-century Hungarian/Slovak physics professor and textbook author
Vincent Houdry , preacher and writer
Gerard W. Hughes , Scottish Jesuit priest and spiritual writer
Franz Hunolt , German priest and author
Saint
Alberto Hurtado , social reformer in
Chile
I
J
Andreas Jaszlinszky , 18th-century Hungarian physics professor and textbook author
Saint
Francis de Geronimo , Italian priest and missionary
Franz Jetzinger , theology professor, Austrian political figure, and principal biographer of
Adolf Hitler 's early years
Pierre Johanns , Luxemburger priest and missionary in India
Saint
Isaac Jogues , 17th-century French martyr and missionary to North America
Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez , Mexican priest, executed during the persecution of the Catholic Church under the presidency of
Plutarco Elías Calles
Claude Judde , 18th century French teacher
K
Athanasius Kircher, a 17th c. polymath
Cardinal
Adam Kozlowiecki
Saint Gabriel Lallemant
Georg Joseph Kamel , Czech botanist assigned to the Philippines; the
Camellia flower was named after him
Sebastian Kappen , Indian theologian
Franciszek Kareu , Polonised architect of British descent who was elected Vice General of the Russian province during the suppression of the Society
Blessed
Leonardo Kimura , Japanese martyr
Eusebio Francisco Kino , missionary and cartographer of Mexico and Arizona
Athanasius Kircher , 17th-century German scientist; discoverer of microbes
Saint
James Kisai , Japanese martyr
Lev Kobylinsky , Russian poet, translator and religious theorist
Adam Adamandy Kochański , Polish mathematician and clockmaker
Anthony Kohlmann , early Catholic priest in New York whose decision not to testify established American precedent for "priest-penitent privilege" or "clergy confidentiality" in law
Peter Hans Kolvenbach , linguist; 29th Superior General of the Society of Jesus
Adam Krupski , professor of philosophy, legal expert on the legislation of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, author of the school dialogue.
Cardinal
Ján Chryzostom Korec , Prisoner for Christ
Saint
Stanislaus Kostka , patron saint of Jesuit novices
George Kovalenko , Russian convert from
Eastern Orthodoxy
Adam Kozłowiecki , Polish
Dachau concentration camp survivor, missionary in Zambia, archbishop of
Lusaka and
Cardinal
Franz Xaver Kugler , Doctor of chemistry and mathematics; famous also for his Babylonian studies
Kurien Kunnumpuram , Indian theologian (Ecclesiology)
Thomas Kunnunkal , Indian educationist and writer
L
Włodzimierz Ledóchowski ,
Superior General 1915-1942
Saint
Jean de Lalande , North American martyr
Saint
Gabriel Lalemant , North American martyr
Quentin Lauer , American priest, philosopher and
Hegel scholar
Antoine Lavalette , French priest, slave-owning missionary in
Martinique whose unpaid debts contributed to the Jesuits being banned in France in 1764
Pierre de Lauzon , superior of the Jesuits in
New France
Włodzimierz Ledóchowski , Polish
Superior General of the Society of Jesus
Gabriel Lenkiewicz , Polish teacher and architect, elected Vicar General of the Russian province during there suppression of the Society
Leonardus Lessius , Belgian moral theologian and writer on economics
Saint
David Lewis , Welsh martyr
Constant Lievens , Apostle of Chotanagpur, Flemish Jesuit who worked among the Adivasis of Central India
Segundo Llorente , Spanish-born priest in rural western Alaska; was elected by
write-in vote to the
Alaska House of Representatives in 1960 by residents of the
Wade Hampton district ,
[2] becoming the first Catholic priest to serve in a U.S. state legislature
[3]
William Lonc , professor of physics and translator of French-Canadian Jesuit records into English
Bernard Lonergan , Canadian philosopher and theologian, Companion of the
Order of Canada
Cardinal
Henri de Lubac , French theologian, and patrologist
M
Jacques Marquette, the French Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement
Marius Macrionitis , Archbishop of Athens
Jack Mahoney , ethicist and moral theologian
Louis Maimbourg
Matt Malone , 14th editor in chief of America magazine
Joseph Maréchal , Belgian transcendental philosopher
Juan de Mariana
Jacques Marquette , French explorer of the Mississippi and Northern Michigan areas
James Martin , author of My Life With the Saints and The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything ; culture editor of the
America magazine
Malachi Martin , author of sixteen books, had three Ph.Ds, spoke ten languages
Ignacio Martín-Baró , martyr of El Salvador
Martino Martini , Italian missionary to China, linguist and published the first Chinese Atlas and the first Ancient History and a chronicle of the tartarian war
Cardinal
Carlo Maria Martini , Italian scripture scholar, Archbishop Emeritus of
Milan
William Francis Masterson, American educator to the
Philippines ; (
Ateneo de Manila University ,
Xavier University – Ateneo de Cagayan ), founder of the Xavier University - Ateneo de Cagayan College of Agriculture
Saint
Lèon-Ignance Mangin , martyred in China
Juan Francisco Masdeu , historian
Blessed
Julien Maunoir , 17th-century missionary to the
Breton people
Blessed
Rupert Mayer ,
Servant of God , resisted the Nazis
John McElroy , one of two of the Army's first
Catholic Chaplains. Chaplain during the
Mexican–American War , founder of St. John's Literary Institute, Boston College High School, and Boston College.
[4]
Horace McKenna , founder of
So Others Might Eat and advocate of the
Sursum Corda Cooperative
John McLaughlin , American political commentator; left the Jesuits after a failed bid for a Senate seat in Rhode Island
Richard McSorley (1914-2002), peace activist; peace studies Professor at
Georgetown University .
Domingo Patricio Meagher , Spanish writer and university professor of Irish descent
Anthony de Mello , Indian spiritual guide and writer
Everard Mercurian , Belgian, 4th Superior General of the Society of Jesus
Brice Meuleman , Belgian, 2nd Archbishop of Calcutta (now
Kolkata )
Saint
Paulo Miki , Japanese martyr
Jorge Loring Miró , Spanish Jesuit
Ignacio Molarja , explorer and missionary to
New Spain
Yves de Montcheuil , French philosopher, theologian, and
French resistant .
Segundo Montes , martyr of El Salvador
Saint
Henry Morse , English martyr
Simon Le Moyne , French New World explorer
Franz Magnis-Suseno , German-born Indonesian Jesuit priest and philosopher
W. G. Read Mullan , American academic and university president
Joseph Anthony Murphy , Irish missionary, bishop and vicar apostolic to Belize, Central America
John Courtney Murray , American theologian credited with the drafting of the
Second Vatican Council Declaration on Religious Freedom
Petrus Canisius, a theologian to whom the restoration of Catholicism in Germany after the Reformation is credited
N
O
Mikołaj Stanisław Oborski (1576-1646), Polish teacher
Bernard Michael O'Brien , New Zealand Jesuit priest and philosopher
Joseph T. O'Callahan ,
U.S. Navy chaplain; awarded
Medal of Honor
Saint
John Ogilvie , Scottish martyr
Joseph A. O'Hare , former president of Fordham University and chairman of the New York City Charter Revision Commission and the first
New York City Campaign Finance Board
Gian Paolo Oliva , Italian 11th Superior General of the Society of Jesus
John W. O'Malley , American academic and Catholic historian
William O'Malley , author and actor (played Father Joe Dyer in
The Exorcist )
Walter J. Ong , American cultural historian and spiritual writer
Wilhelm Josef Oomens , painter
John H. O'Rourke , American retreat leader and
master of novices
Saint
Nicholas Owen , martyr saint of England and Wales
P
Mitch Pacwa , scholar; host on
EWTN
Francesco Palliola , Italian missionary and martyr in the Philippines
Kuruvilla Pandikattu , Indian philosopher
Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro , pioneer philologist
Raimon Panikkar , Spanish priest, theologian, philosopher, interfaith dialogist, scholar, writer and chemist
Álvarez de Paz , preacher and mystic
Péter Pázmány , Cardinal,
Archbishop of Esztergom , leader of the Catholic revival in Hungary
Ferdinand Perier , Belgian, 3rd Archbishop of Calcutta (now Kolkata)
Denis Pétau , French scholar and theologian
François Para du Phanjas , French writer
Giambattista Pianciani , Italian scientist
Joseph Pignatelli , Italian leader of the Jesuits in exile
John Pinasco , Italian theologian and educator to America
Luca Pinelli , Italian scholar and theologian
Bartolomé Pou , Spanish writer
John Powell , American author and professor
Andrea Pozzo , great artist of the
Baroque genre
R
Karl Rahner , 20th-century German theologian
Samuel Rayan , Indian proponent of
liberation theology
Saint
Bernardino Realino , pastor of
Lecce
Sebastian Redford , 18th-century author
Joseph Redlhamer , 18th-century Austrian physics professor and textbook author
Saint
John Francis Regis , French rural missionary preacher
Karl Leonhard Reinhold
Franz Retz , Czech 15th Superior General of the Society of Jesus
Johann Baptist Reus , German-Brazilian religious leader
Alexandre de Rhodes , French missionary to
Vietnam ; linguist
Servant of God
Matteo Ricci , Italian missionary to China, linguist and published the first Chinese edition of
Euclid's Elements
Giovanni Battista Riccioli , 17th-century Italian astronomer; devised the system for the nomenclature of lunar features that is now the international standard
William A. Rice , American missionary, founder of Baghdad College, bishop and vicar apostolic in Belize
Didier Rimaud , French composer and poet
Alberto Rivera , claimed to be ex-Jesuit (disputed by Catholic Church), anti-Catholic activist
Saint
Alonso Rodriguez , martyr of the Río de la Plata
Saint
Alphonsus Rodriguez , Jesuit brother; mystic
João Rodrigues Tçuzu ("the Translator"), 16th-century Portuguese missionary who served as a translator for
Toyotomi Hideyoshi and
Tokugawa Ieyasu , wrote early works on Japanese linguistics, and introduced Western science and culture to
Korea through his gifts to the ambassador
Jeong Duwon
Saint
José María Rubio , Spanish priest; canonized in 2003
Antonio Ruiz de Montoya , Jesuit missionary in Paraguay
Francis Tiburtius Roche , first bishop of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Tuticorin .
S
Grégoire de Saint-Vincent , contributions to the theory of
logarithms
Karel San Juan ,
Filipino president of
Ateneo de Zamboanga University
Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski , Polish Latin poet of the Counter-Reformation, crowned poet laureate by
Pope Urban VIII
Alonso de Sandoval , missionary to African slaves in
Cartagena de Indias , mentor of Saint
Peter Claver
Johann Schreck , 17th-century German polymath and missionary to China
Gaspar Schott , first published mention of the
universal joint
Angelo Secchi , astronomer
Juan Luis Segundo ,
liberation theologian
Gerolamo Sersale , astronomer
Thomas Ewing Sherman , son of
U.S. Civil War General
William T. Sherman
Swami Shilananda , Spanish missionary who spent his active years in India
Piotr Skarga , Polish
polemicist , leading figure of the
Counter-Reformation in the
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and
hagiographer
Tadeusz Ślipko , Polish ethicist
Pierre-Jean De Smet , American explorer and missionary
Pierre-Jean De Smet, a missionary to the Native Americans in the Western United States
Jan Mikołaj Smogulecki , introduced
logarithms to China
Cypriano de Soarez , author of De Arte Rhetorica
Jon Sobrino , author of Christology at the Crossroads , liberation theologian
Carlos Sommervogel , scholar and author of Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jesus
Arturo Sosa , 31st Superior General of the Society of Jesus
Saint
Robert Southwell , Elizabethan poet and martyr
Cardinal
Tomáš Špidlík , Czech theologian and professor
Buck Stanton (Jesuit) ,
naturalist and
Jesuit missionary to
British Honduras .
Walter Steins Bisschop , 19th-century Dutch bishop, Vicar Apostolic of
Bombay and then
Calcutta and 3rd Bishop of
Auckland, New Zealand
Andrew Sterpin , Chinese-born Russian priest who was influential in both Russian and French culture
Francisco Suárez , scholastic philosopher
Blessed
John Sullivan (Jesuit) |, Irish convert and teacher; renowned for his special interest in the poor
Jón Sveinsson , Icelandic poet and writer
Martin Szentiványi , writer
Ignacije Szentmartony , Croatian mathematician and astronomer
Stan Swamy , tribal rights activist
T
Teilhard in 1955
Joel Tabora , Filipino philosopher and president of
Ateneo de Davao University
Guy Tachard , two important embassies to
Siam
André Tacquet , Flemish mathematician whose works facilitated the discovery of calculus
Michelangelo Tamburini , Italian 14th Superior General of the Society of Jesus
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin , French
paleontologist , theologian/philosopher and spiritual writer
Francesco Lana de Terzi , creator of the first realistic technical plans for an airship
Richard Thimelby , 17th century English missionary priest, Rector of the College of St Omer
Antoine Thomas , Belgian astronomer in China
Vitus Georg Tönnemann , German priest who was the only confessor to Emperor
Charles VI of France (1711-1740)
Girolamo Francesco Tornielli , Italian preacher and writer
Cosme de Torrès , contemporary of
Francis Xavier
Diego de Torres Bello , pioneer of the Paraguay province
Pascal Tosi , Italian co-founder of the Alaska Mission
Nicolas Trigault , early missionary to China
Michael Alphonsius Shen Fu-Tsung , first Mandarin-speaking Chinese to become a Jesuit
John Nepomuk Tschupick , Austrian preacher
George Tyrrell , Anglo-Irish modernist theologian and scholar
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Luca Valerio , corresponded with
Galileo Galilei
Alessandro Valignano , Italian canonical visitor to the Asian missions; promoter of an
inculturated missionary approach
Carlos G. Vallés , writer of Gujarati, English and Spanish languages; and mathematics
Albert Vanhoye , Biblical scholar and cardinal
John Vattanky , Indian classical philosopher
José María Vélaz , founder of
Fe y Alegría
Ferdinand Verbiest , Belgian missionary to China; astronomer and mathematician
António Vieira , 17th-century Portuguese missionary and
diplomat
Juan Bautista Villalpando ,
Isaac Newton referred to his works
Grégoire de Saint-Vincent , Flemish mathematician
Claude de Visdelou , early missionary to China
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Edmund A. Walsh , founder of the
School of Foreign Service at
Georgetown University
Saint
Henry Walpole , English martyr
Heinrich Wangnereck , German theologian, preacher, and author
Anthony Watsham ,
entomologist with emphasis on
scelionidae
Andrew White (Jesuit) , 17th century English Jesuit, influential figure in the early
Maryland Colony who led efforts to convert and improve relations with local Native American tribes
George J. Willmann , American priest regarded as the "Father of the
Knights of Columbus in the Philippines" and
Servant of God
Garry Wills ,
Pulitzer Prize -winning author who was briefly a Jesuit
Jakub Wujek , scholar and translator
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See also
Notes
^ Father
Gabriel Richard was briefly in the U.S. Congress in the 1820s, but as a territorial representative. Under guidelines released by
Pope John Paul II , Catholic clergy are expected not to serve in positions of civil authority. Drinan did not seek re-election as a result of the issuance of these guidelines.
References
^ Robert Aleksander Maryks; Jonathan Wright, eds. (2014). Jesuit Survival and Restoration: A Global History, 1773-1900. Studies in the History of Christian Traditions (revised reprint ed.). BRILL. p. 393.
ISBN
978-9-0042-8387-9 .
^
Official Returns - General Election - November 8, 1960 (PDF) . Juneau: Office of the
Alaska Secretary of State . 1960. p. 27. Retrieved January 23, 2012 .
^ Tsong, Nicole (December 30, 2004). "Abuse claims breathe life into dead priests' past".
Anchorage Daily News . Anchorage. p. A1. A popular Jesuit priest -- the country's first Roman Catholic priest to serve in a state Legislature
^ O’Conner, Thomas H. "Breaking the religious barrier",
The Boston Globe , 10 May 2004.
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