List of people declared Servants of God under Pope Francis
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This article is a list of people proposed by each diocese of the Catholic Church for beatification and canonization, whose causes have been officially opened during the papacy of Pope Francis and are newly given the title as Servants of God. The names listed below are from the Vatican and are listed in month beginning the year 2013, with their birth and death year, position in clerical or religious life, and the place where the potential Saints lived or died.
In the Latin Church of the Catholic Church, Servant of God is a title used for a person for whom a beatification process has been opened.
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October 2018
Paola Adamo (1963-1978), Child of the Archdiocese of Taranto (Italy)
Ibrahim Addai Scher (d. 1918) and 27 Companion Martyrs of the Assyrian genocide, Archeparchs, Eparchs, Priests, Catechumens, and Laypersons of the Archeparchy of Urmia; Priests of the Congregation of the Mission (Vincentians); Martyrs (Iraq-Iran)
Pierangelo Capuzzimati (1990-2008), Young Layperson of the Archdiocese of Taranto (Italy)
Amanda Gilseth Ruiz Suarez [Amandita] (1999-2005), Child of the Archdiocese of San Cristobal de Venezuela (Venezuela)
Marian Zelazek (1918-2006), Professed Priest of the Society of the Divine Word (Poland-India)
September 2018
Domenica Crocifissa Lolli [Nina] (1901-2006), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Brindisi-Ostuni (Italy)
Giovanni Antonio Rabbi (1693-1785), Priest of the Diocese of Bergamo (Italy)
July 2018
Pedro Arrupe Gondra (1909-1991), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Spain-Italy)
Kazimierz Stanisław Badeni (Joachim) (1912-2010), Professed Priest of the Dominicans (Belgium-Poland)
Agostino Bartolini (1918-2012), Professed Priest of the Carmelites of the Ancient Observance (Italy)
Elia Carbonaro (1893-1973), Professed Priest of the Carmelites of the Ancient Observance (Italy)
Amata Cerretelli (1907-1963), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Florence; Member of the Secular Carmelites (Italy)
Maddalena Fezza (1811-1877), Layperson of the Diocese of Nocera Inferiore-Sarno (Italy)
Alfonso María López Sendín (1906-2002), Professed Priest of the Carmelites of the Ancient Observance (Spain)
Domingos Evangelista Pinheiro (1843-1924), Priest of the Archdiocese of Belo Horizonte; Founder of the Sisters Helpers of Our Lady of Pieta (Brazil)
Walenty Torbiński (Gwala) (1908-1999), Professed Priest of the Dominicans (Poland)
Philomena Vallayil (Mary Francesca de Chantal) (1880-1972), Founder of the Sisters of Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament (India)
June 2018
Luigi Pedrollo (1888-1986), Professed Priest of the Poor Servants of Divine Providence (Calabrians) (Italy)
May 2018
Thea Bowman (1937-1990, Black Catholic religious sister with the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, educator, and activist (United States)
April 2018
Salvador García Pintos (1891-1956), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Montevideo (Uruguay)
Annunziata Addolorata Lafranco (Teresa) (1920-1989), Professed Religious of the Daughters of Saint Mary of Leuca (Italy)
Annakkutty Payyappilly (Mary Celine) (1906-1993), Professed Religious of the Congregation of the Mother of Carmel (India)
March 2018
Enrichetta Beltrame Quattrocchi (1914-2012), Layperson of the Vicariate of Rome (Italy)
Chiara Corbella Petrillo (1984-2012), Young Married Layperson of the Vicariate of Rome (Italy)
João dal Monte (Inácio of Ribeirão Preto) (1897-1963), Professed Priest of the Franciscan Capuchins; Bishop of Guaxupé (Brazil)
Pietrino di Natale (1966-1984), Young Layperson of the Diocese of Teramo-Atri (Italy)
Diego Gutierréz Pedraza (1894-1990), Professed Priest of the Augustinians; Bishop of Cafayate (Spain)
Stefano Lamera (1912-1997), Professed Priest of the Society of Saint Paul (Paulines) (Italy)
Salustiano Míguelez Romero (1919-1999), Professed Priest of the Augustinians (Spain)
Cecilia Moshe Hanna (1931-2002), Professed Religious of the Daughters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Chaldeans); Martyr (Iraq)
Cesare Sarafini (Michelangelo of Cingoli) (1908-2013), Professed Priest of the Franciscan Capuchins (Italy-Brazil)
Avhustyn-Klement Tsebrovs'kyi (1888-1944), Married Priest of the Archeparchy of Lviv of the Ukrainians (Ukraine)
February 2018
Ragheed Aziz Ganni (1972-2007), Basman Yousef Daud Al-Yousef (1982-2007), Wahid Hanna Isho (1966-2007), and Gassan Isam Bidawed (1983-2007), Priest and Subdeacons of the Archeparchy of Mosul of the Chaldeans; Martyrs (Iraq)
Roman Kotlarz (1928-1976), Priest of the Diocese of Radom; Martyr (Poland)
January 2018
Antoni Baraniak (1904–1977), Professed Priest of the Salesians of Don Bosco; Archbishop of Poznan (Poland)
Aloysius Maria Benziger (Aloysius of Saint Mary) (1864–1942), Professed Priest of the Discalced Carmelites; Bishop of Quilon (Switzerland-India)
Julianus Buyck (Adeodatus of Saint Peter) (1896–1968), Professed Priest of the Discalced Carmelites (Belgium-India)
Florencia Cuesta Valluerca (Trinidad of the Sacred Heart of Jesus) (1904-1967), Professed Religious of the Carmelite Nuns of the Ancient Observance (Spain-Philippines)
Giacobo Gratij [Jacobo de Gracia] (1517–1619), Priest of the Archdiocese of Madrid (Italy-Spain)
Hernando de Talavera (ca. 1430–1507), Professed Priest of the Hieronymites; Archbishop of Granada (Spain)
2017
December 2017
Angelo Frosi (1924-1995), Professed Priest of the Xaverian Missionaries; Bishop of Abaetetuba (Italy-Brazil)
Antonia Luzmila Rivas López (María Augustina) (1920-1990), Professed Religious of the Religious of the Good Shepherd; Martyr (Peru)
Fritz Michael Gerlich (1861–1934), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Munich-Freising; Martyr (Poland-Germany)
Mercedes Reyes Sánchez (Mercedes of Saint Therese) (1930-2012), Professed Religious of the Discalced Carmelite Nuns (Colombia)
Romano Guardini (1885–1968), Priest of the Archdiocese of Munich-Freising (Italy-Germany)
October 2017
Ana María Moreno Castillo [Niña Anita] (1887-1977), Layperson of the Diocese of Chitré (Panama)
Isabelle Abdullah El-Khoury (1878-1953), Founder and Renovator of the Antonine Sisters (Beirut, Lebanon)
September 2017
Edda Roda (Adalberta of the Holy Trinity) (1940-1996), Professed Religious of the Capuchin Sisters of Mother Rubatto (Italy)
Ivan Veliamyn Rutskyi (1571-1637), Archeparch of Kiev; Restorer of the Basilians of Saint Josaphat (Belarus-Ukraine)
August 2017
Adalberto Almeida Merino (1916-2008), Archbishop of Chihuahua (Mexico)
Richard Michael Fernando (Richie) (1970-1996), Professed Cleric of the Jesuits; Martyr (Philippines-Cambodia)
July 2017
Élise Bisschop (1925-1964), Layperson of the Diocese of Sens-Auxerre (France)
Moisés Cisneros Rodríguez (1945-1991), Professed Religious of the Marist Brothers of the Schools; Martyr (Spain-Guatemala)
Enrique Esteve Francisco (Enrique Maria) (1905-1990), Professed Priest of the Carmelites of Ancient Observance (Spain)
Marie-Melanie [Marie-Noëlle] Rouget (1883-1967), Layperson of the Diocese of Sens-Auxerre (France)
June 2017
Bruno Cornacchiola (1913-2001), Married Layperson of the Vicariate of Rome; Founder of the Association of the Ardent Hosts of Christ Immortal King (Italy)
Anna Figus (Anna of Jesus) (1900-1995), Founder of the Sisters of Redemption (Italy)
Wilhelm Gaczel and 3 Companions (d. 1941–42), Professed Priests and Religious of the Augustinians; Martyrs (Poland-Germany)
Fernando González Saborío (1927-1957), Priest of the Diocese of Tilaran-Liberia (Costa Rica)
Michael Power (1804-1847), Bishop of Toronto (Canada)
Ramón Sáinz Orozco (1882-1937), Married Layperson of the Diocese of San Juan de los Lagos; Martyr (Mexico)
May 2017
María Isabel [Marisa] Acuña Arias (1941-1954), Child of the Archdiocese of San Jose de Costa Rica (Costa Rica)
Giovanni Antonio Baldeschi (1780-1840), Priest of the Vicariate of Rome; Cofounder of the Sisters of Perpetual Adoration (Italy)
Alma Sacco Ferrara (1914-2000), Married Layperson of the Vicariate of Rome (Italy)
Lucio Leon Cardenas (1913-2010), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of San Cristobal de Venezuela (Venezuela)
Juan Morrera Coll (Casiano María of Madrid) (1892-1965), Professed Priest of the Franciscan Capuchins (Spain-Costa Rica)
Bernhard Poether (1906-1942), Priest of the Diocese of Munster; Martyr (Germany)
Victor Manuel Sanabria Martínez (1898-1952), Archbishop of San Jose de Costa Rica (Costa Rica)
April 2017
Élisabeth Philippine Marie Hélène de France (1764–1794), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Paris; Martyr (France)
Annammal Selvanayagam Pillai (1836–1883), Founder of the Sisters of Saint Anne of Tiruchirappalli (India)
Palmira (Maria Anselma) Viola (1892-1983), Founder of the Missionary Catechist Sisters of Jesus the Redeemer (Italy)
March 2017
Wilhelm Frede (1875–1942), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Munster; Martyr (Germany)
Maria Lilia Mastacchini (1892–1926), Founder of the Institute of Pious Workers (Italy)
Beniamino Miori (1883–1946), Professed Priest of the Stigmatines (Italy)
José María Pujadas Ferrer (1915–1984), Priest of the Archdiocese of Barcelona; Founder of the Encounters of Youth Promotion (Spain)
Victor Rodriguez Martinez (1925–2012), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Valladolid; Member of the Lay Carmelites (Spain)
Pedro Manuel Salado de Alba (1968–2012), Layperson of the Diocese of Esmeraldas; Member of the Ecclesial Family "Hogar de Nazaret" (Spain-Ecuador)
Colette Lamontagne Samson (1923–1991), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Quebec (Canada)
2016
December 2016
Alicja Poppe (Maria Yelisaveta) (1884–1970), Cofounder of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul (Greek Catholic) (Belgium-Ukraine)
Peter John Roche (Alfred of Moodahadu) (1924–1996), Professed Priest of the Franciscan Capuchins (India)
Laura Vincenzi (1963–1987), Young Layperson of the Archdiocese of Ferraro-Comacchio (Italy)
Rhoda Greer Wise (1888-1948), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Youngstown (United States)
November 2016
Mario Bortoletto (1938–2009), Priest of the Diocese of Treviso; Fidei Donum Missionary in the Diocese of Ebolowa; Associate of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (Italy-Cameroon)
Léontine Dolivet (1888–1974), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Lyon (France)
Antonio Loi (1936–1965), Priest of the Archdiocese of Cagliari (Italy)
Inôcencio López Santamaria (1874–1958), Professed Priest of the Mercedarians; Bishop of Sao Raimundo Nonato (Spain-Brazil)
Domenico Antonio Mangano (1916–2001), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Albano; member of the Volunteers of God – Focolare Movement (Italy)
October 2016
Luisa Mabalane Mafo (1943–1992) and 22 Lay Companions from the Catechetical Center of Guiua (d. 1992), Married Catechists, Catechumens, Young Laypersons and Children of the Diocese of Imhanbane; Martyrs (Mozambique)
Carmen Nebot Soldán de Noguera (1933–2007), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Huelva (Spain)
Joaquín Reina Castrillón (1902–1975), Professed Priest of the Jesuits; Founder of the Servants of the Poor, Daughters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Spain)
September 2016
Celso Benigno Luigi Costantini (1876–1958), Titular Archbishop of Theodosiopolis in Arcadia; Founder of the Congregation of the Disciples of the Lord; Cardinal (Italy)
Jacques Hamel (1930–2016), Priest of the Archdiocese of Rouen; Martyr (France)
Rudolf Lunkenbein (1939–1976), Professed Priest of the Salesians of Don Bosco; Martyr (Germany-Brazil)
Simão Cristino Koge Kudugodu [Simão Bororó] (1937–1976), Layperson of the Diocese of Barra do Garcas; Martyr (Brazil)
Laura Pérez Sénchez (1928-1966), Professed Member of the Secular Institute of the Apostolic Missionaries of Charity (Spain)
Sergio Sorgon (Sergio of Saint Joseph) (1938–1985), Professed Priest of the Discalced Carmelites (Italy-Madagascar)
August 2016
Vitória Nabo Correia Bixarxe (Vitória of the Incarnation) (1661–1715), Professed Religious of the Poor Clare Nuns (Brazil)
Nicholas Black Elk (1863–1950), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Rapid City; Catechist (United States)
Kazimierz Antoni Hołoga (1913–1958), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Poznań (Poland)
Mary Bernadette Prasad Kispotta (1878–1961), Founder of the Daughters of Saint Anne of Ranchi (India)
Louis-Marie Leveil (1889–1973), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (France-India)
Elisa Martinez (1905–1991), Founder of the Daughters of Saint Mary of Leuca (Italy)
Othon Motta (1913–1985), Bishop of Campanha (Brazil)
July 2016
Giuseppe Mazzanti (1879–1954), Priest of the Diocese of Imola; Founder of the Little Sisters of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus (Italy)
Maria von Mörl (1790–1868), Layperson of the Diocese of Bolzano-Bressanone; Member of the Secular Franciscans (Italy)
Gaetana [Agata Tanina] Nastasi (1914 0 1926), Child of the Diocese of Acireale (Italy)
Jorge Novak (1928–2001), Professed Priest of the Society of the Divine Word; Bishop of Quilmes (Argentina)
Antonietta (Maria) Zanelli (1887–1957), Founder of the Little Sisters of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus (Italy)
June 2016
Bernardino de Antequera (1572-1634), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Spain)
Jose Cappel Farfsing [Joseph Henry Cappel] (1908–2004), Priest of the Maryknoll Missionary Society (United States-Chile)
Margarita Fonseca Silvestre (1884–1945), Founder of the Servants of Christ the Priest (Colombia)
Patrick Ryan (1845–1878), Priest of the Diocese of Knoxville (Ireland-United States)
May 2016
Ivan Burik (1928–1991), Priest of the Archdiocese of Đakovo-Osijek; Martyr (Serbia-Croatia)
Federico [Friedrich] Grote (1853–1940), Professed Priest of the Redemptorists (Germany-Argentina)
Teresa Kearney (Mary Kevin) (1875–1957), Founder of the Little Sisters of Saint Francis and the Franciscan Missionary Sisters for Africa (Ireland-Uganda-United States)
Manuel (prob. 1604–1686), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Mercedes-Luján (Angola-Argentina)
Joseph Müller (1894–1944), Priest of the Diocese of Hildesheim; Martyr (Germany)
Christophe Munzihirwa Mwene Ngabo (1926–1996), Professed Priest of the Jesuits; Archbishop of Bukavu (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Helena Perera [Charithaya] (ca. 1848–1931), Layperson of the Diocese of Chilaw (Sri Lanka)
Jorge Maria [Georges] Salvaire (1847–1899), Priest of the Congregation of the Mission (Vincentians) (France-Argentina)
Lourdu Xavier Savarirayan (1910–1972), Priest of the Diocese of Kumbakonam (India)
Ivan [Ivica] Simrak (1912–1944), Priest of the Eparchy of Križevci; Martyr (Croatia)
Mónika Tímár [Schmidt] (1937–1962), Professed Religious of the Cistercian Nuns (Hungary)
April 2016
Jeremy Joyner White (1938–1990), Layperson of the Personal Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei (United Kingdom-Nigeria)
Czeslawa Wojtczak (Maria Wlodzimira) (1909–1943), Professed Religious of the Sisters of Saint Elizabeth (Poland)
March 2016
Alonzo de Barzana (ca.
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