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Pope Francis
Pope Francis was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 13 March 2013 until his death in 2025. He was the first Jesuit pope, the first Latin American, and the first pope born or raised outside Europe since the 8th-century Syrian pope Gregory III.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French philosopher, Jesuit priest, and paleontologist
Peter Canisius
Dutch, Jesuit priest, Doctor of the Church, Roman Catholic saint
Carlo Maria Martini
Italian Jesuit and cardinal of the Catholic Church
Karl Rahner
German Catholic theologian (1904–1984)
Anthony de Mello
Indian writer (1931-1987)
Hans Urs von Balthasar
Swiss Catholic theologian (1905–1988)
Henri de Lubac
Jesuit theologian and cardinal (1896–1991)
Avery Dulles
Catholic cardinal (1918–2008)
Tomáš Špidlík
Czech essayist, cardinal, publicist, religion writer, professor, publicist, writer, theologist, university educator and science writer (1919–2010)
Jean Daniélou
French Jesuit theologian and cardinal (1905–1974)
Luis de Molina
Spanish priest and writer
Jon Sobrino
Spanish theologian
Bernard Lonergan
Canadian philosopher and theologian (1904–1984)
Cornelius a Lapide
Flemish Jesuit priest and exegete (1568-1637)
Marko Rupnik
Slovenian priest, theologian, mosaic artist and former Jesuit (born 1954)
Erich Przywara
German Jesuit priest (1889–1972)
Johann Baptist Franzelin
Catholic cardinal (1816-1886)
Hermann Busenbaum
German Jesuit casuist
Matteo Liberatore
Jesuit philosopher and writer (1810-1892)
Leonardus Lessius
Lenaert Leys, Flemish moral theologian from the Jesuit order (1554-1623)
Gabriel Vásquez
Spanish Jesuit theologian (1549-1604)
William O'Malley
American actor and priest (1931–2023)
Joseph Fitzmyer
American Jesuit and biblical scholar (1920-2016)
Martin Delrio
Belgian theologian
Manuel Lacunza
Chilean Jesuit theologian (1731–1801)
Giovanni Battista Tolomei
Italian Jesuit priest, theologian and cardinal
Xavier Tilliette
French philosopher (1921–2018)
John Courtney Murray
American theologian (1904–1967)
Sebastiaan Tromp
Dutch theologian (1889-1975)
Giovanni Perrone
Italian Jesuit (1794-1876)
Diego de Avendaño
Spanish Jesuit academic
Giovanni Battista Scaramelli
Italian Jesuit philosopher
Juan Maldonado
Spanish theologian
Roger Haight
American theologian
Joseph Deharbe
German theologian (1800-1871)
Clement Schrader
German theologian
Pierre Busée
Dutch theologian
Javier Melloni
italian-Catalan anthropologist and theologian (born 1962)
Paolo Bombino
Italian Jesuit theologian
Franz Neumayr
German Jesuit preacher