List of Servants of God

Funerary inscription (AD 525) calling the deceased Maxima an Ancilla Christi (handmaid of Christ)

In the Catholic Church, Servant of God is the style used for a person who has been posthumously declared "heroic in virtue" during the investigation and process leading to canonisation as a saint.[1]

The term is used in the first of the four steps in the canonization process. The next step is being declared Venerable, upon a decree of heroism or martyrdom by the honored. That is followed by beatification, with the title of Blessed. After the confirmation of miracles resulting from the intercession of the honored, the final step is canonization, where the honored would receive the title of Saint.

List

The following is an incomplete list of people currently declared to be a Servant of God. The list is in alphabetical order by Christian name but, if necessary, by surname or the place or attribute part of the name.

Servant of God	Year of death	Year declared Servant of God	Notes / References
Adrienne von Speyr	1967	2018	Swiss theologian and physician
Alcide De Gasperi	1954	1993	Prime Minister of Italy
Afonso Sanches, Lord of Albuquerque	1329	1723	Portuguese noble
Ángel Herrera Oria	1968	1996	Spanish cardinal
Angela Iacobellis	1961	1991
Antoni Gaudí	1926	2000
Anita Moreno	1977	2018	Panamanian laywoman[2]
Akash Bashir	2015	2022	Pakistani security guard and martyr
Antony Thachuparambil	1963	2009
Barbora Žagarietė	1648	2015
Bartolomé de las Casas	1566	2002	Spanish priest
Bastiampillai Anthonipillai Thomas	1964	2006	founder of the Rosarians Order
Pope Benedict XIII	1730	1755
Black Elk	1950	2017	[3] Catechist
Blandina Segale	1941	2015
Simon Bruté	1839	2005	First Bishop of Vincennes, Indiana and spiritual director to St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
Buenaventura Codina y Augerolas	1857	1978	Spanish bishop
Carlo Braga	1971	2013	Italian Missionary
Giuseppe Castagnetti	1965	2009	Roman Catholic politician
Catherine Doherty	1985	2000	Russian writer and founder of the Madonna House Apostolate
Cecilia Rosa de Jesús Talangpaz	1731	1999
Charles Journet	1975		Swiss theologian and cardinal
Chiara Corbella Petrillo	2012	2018
Cícero Romão Batista	1934	2022	Professed priest
Dalisay Lazaga	1971	2012
Darwin Ramos	2012	2019	Street child, Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin	1840	2005	Russian aristocrat, founder of Loretto, Pennsylvania
Dionisia de Santa María Mitas Talangpaz	1732	1999	Filipino nun
Domingos Chohachi Nakamura	1940	2002	Japanese priest and missionary
Dorothy Day	1980	2000	American social activist
Edward J. Flanagan	1948	2012
Eileen Rosaline O'Connor	1921	2018	Co-founder of the Society of Our Lady's Nurses for the Poor
Elena of Montenegro, Queen of Italy	1952	2001
Elisabeth Leseur	1914	1934	French mystic
Élisabeth of France	1794	1953	martyred during French Revolution
Eliswa Vakayil	1831	2008	Indian nun
Emil Kapaun	1951	1993	U.S. Army Chaplain during the Korean War
Emilia Anne Wojtyła	1929	2020	mother of Pope John Paul II[4]
Emiliano Tardif	1999	2010
Eugenio Borg	1967	1997	First Superior General of the Society of Christian Doctrine (M.U.S.E.U.M.)
Euzebiusz Huchracki	1942	2003	martyred in Schloss Hartheim[5]
Ezechiele Ramin	1985	2017	Italian missionary priest martyred in Brazil
Ferdinando Casagrande	1944	1998	martyred in Marzabotto
Fidelis Thaliath	2008	2021	Indian nun
Floripes Dornellas de Jesus	1999	2005	Brazilian mystic
Francis II of the Two Sicilies	1894	2020	King of the Two Sicilies
Francis Xavier Ford	1952		Bishop of Kaying
Francisco Rodrigues da Cruz	1948	1951	Portuguese priest
François-Marie-Benjamin Richard	1908		Archbishop of Paris
Frank Duff	1980	1996	Founder of the Legion of Mary
Geevarghese Ivanios	1953	2007	Archbishop of Trivandrum
George Vakayil	1931	2013	Indian priest[6][7]
Gerard Raymond	1932	1968	French-Canadian seminarian
Gordon Anthony Pantin	2000	2013	Archbishop of Port of Spain[8]
Helena Kmieć	2017	2024	Polish missionary[9]
Xu Guangqi	1633	1933 (redeclared 2011)
Hans Urs von Balthasar	1988	2018	Swiss theologian and priest
Hélder Pessoa Câmara	1999	2015	Archbishop of Olinda e Recife and cofounder of the Episcopal Conference of Brazil
Henry II the Pious	1241	2015	Polish monarch
Henryk Szuman	1939	2003	martyred in Bydgoszcz[10]
Ida Mari	1981
Isaac Hecker	1888	2008	Founder of the Paulist Fathers
Isabella I of Castile	1504	1974	Queen of Castille and Leon
Jacques Hamel	2016	2017	French Catholic priest, killed in an attack, qualified as a martyr by Christians including Pope Francis.
James II of England	1701	1734	Jacobite claimant to the throne of England
Johann Baptist Reus	1985	1994	German priest
John Pozzobon	1947	1953	Brazilian Permanent deacon
John Hardon	2000	2002	American priest
John Peter Savarinayagam	1979	2019	Capuchin Priest
Józef Cyrek	1940	1994	Polish writer
Jules Chevalier	1907	2012	Professed priest and founder of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart and the DOLSH Congregation
Julius Nyerere	1999	2005	First President of Tanzania
Karol Józef Wojtyła Sr.	1941	2020	father of Pope John Paul II[4]
Léo Tarcísio Gonçalves Pereira	2007	2020	Brazilian Dehonian priest
Luciano Mendes de Almeida	2006	2014	Bishop of Mariana
Luigi Giussani	2005	2012	Founder of Communion and Liberation
Luis Chávez	1987	2001	predecessor to Oscar Romero
Luis Cáncer	1549	2015	[11] Spanish missionary
Luisa Piccarreta	1947	2006
Madeleine Delbrêl	1964	2018
Maria Clotilde of Savoy	1911	1942
Marcel Van	1959	1997
Maria Esperanza de Bianchini	2004	2010
Marie Gertrude Gros	1905	2012
Marta Obregón Rodríguez	1969	2011	Martyred for defending her chastity[12]
Mathew Kavukattu	1969	1994	Archbishop of Changanassery
Mathew Makil	1914	2009
Áron Márton	1980	1998	Bishop of Alba Iulia; declared Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in 1999.
Matilde Salem	1961	1961	Syrian laywoman
Matteo Ricci	1610	1984 (redeclared 2010)
Maurice Michael Otunga	2003	2010	The first cardinal of Kenya
Michelle Duppong	2015	2022	FOCUS Missionary[13]
Moises Crespo Gonzalez	1980	2015	Panamanian Augustinian Priest[14]
Leonia Nastał	1940	2016	Polish nun[15]
Patrick Ryan	1878	2016
Pedro Arrupe	1991	2018	Spanish Basque Jesuit priest and first responder to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima
Piotr Szarek	1939	1994	martyred during Occupation of Poland
Pope Pius VII	1823	2007
Prosper Guéranger	1875	2005
Rafael Merry del Val	1930	1953	Spanish cardinal
Raymond FC Mascarenhas	1960	2008
Reynolds Purackal	1988	2010
Romano Guardini	1968	2017	Italian priest and philospher
Rubén Isidro Alonso	1992	2014	Uruguayan Streetwise Priest
Stefano Gobbi	2011	2024	Priest and Founder of the Marian Movement of Priests
Salvo D'Acquisto	1943	2001	Italian policeman.
Santa Scorese	1991	1998	Martyred for defending her chastity[16]
Sepé Tiaraju	1756	2017	Guarani Leader[17]
Shahbaz Bhatti	2011	2016	Pakistani politician
Stanisław Wiórek	1939	1994	Martyred during the German Occupation of Poland
Terence Cooke	1983	1992	Archbishop of New York and Cardinal
Theodore Foley	1974	2008	Superior general of the Passionists.
Thea Bowman	1990	1990	nun
Therese Neumann	1962	2005	German mystic
Thomas Cooray	1988	2011	Sri Lankan cardinal
Toni Zweifel	1989	2018	Swiss engineer and founder of the Limmat Foundation
Trương Bửu Diệp	1946	2014	Vietnamese priest
Ubaldo Marchioni	1944	1998	Martyred in Marzabotto
Vincent R. Capodanno	1967	2006	A United States Navy Chaplain who was killed in the line of duty
Vital Maria Gonçalves de Oliveira	1878	1994	Bishop of Olinda
Vivian Uchechi Ogu	1995	2009	Martyred for defending her chastity[18]
Walter Ciszek	1984	1990	Polish=American priest and missionary
Willi Graf	1943	2017	member of the German Resistance
William Finnemann	1942	1999
Zilda Arns Neumann	2010	2015	Brazilian Brazilian physician and philanthropist

See also

• List of saints
• List of beatified people
• List of venerated Catholics
• Servants of God by nationality

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