Laicized Roman Catholic priests

Haitian politician who became Haiti's first democratically elected president

1st Prime Minister of the Central African Republic autonomous territory (1910-1959)

Brazilian Catholic liberation theologian (born 1938)

President of the Republic of the Congo (1917-1972)

Spanish-American philosopher and biologist (1934–2023)

Polish priest

American chess player (1937-2017)

Bosnian Croat Franciscan friar, Ustashe military chaplain and convicted war criminal (1915-1946)

American academic

12th century heresiarch

British philosopher (born 1931)

British writer (1867–1955)

laicised Irish priest known for disrupting major sporting events in 2003-04

Belgian debater, philosopher and skeptic (1934–2019)

Scottish Labour Party politician (1966-2011)

removal of a Catholic bishop, priest or deacon from the status of being a member of the clergy

Italian theologian (1928-2017)

New Calaedonian politician (1936–1989)

American priest and anti-war activist (1923-2002)

Czech Minister of Culture, member of Czech Parliament (2013–2017) and Roman Catholic priest

Founder of the human rights group School of the Americas Watch

German Roman Catholic priest and missionary, lay theologian; son of Reichsleiter Martin Bormann (1930–2013)

American journalist (1927–2016)

Polish priest and Biblical scholar (1922–2006)

Canadian priest (1809-1899)

Catholic theologian (1935–2025)

Canadian theologian

French satanist (1824–1893)

Papua New Guinea politician

Haitian politician, diplomat and Catholic priest (1937-2013)

American Roman Catholic anti-abortion leader and laicized priest (born 1959)

writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Marine

catholic priest from Massachusetts

writer, archaeologist, sometime Jesuit priest (1931–2000)

German Roman Catholic theologian (1931–2014)

Slovenian politician, physician, theologian and a former Jesuit

thumb | right | Defrocking of Patriarch Nikon of Moscow Defrocking, unfrocking, degradation, or laicization of clergy is the removal of their rights to exercise the functions of the ordained ministry. It may be grounded on criminal convictions, disciplinary problems, or disagreements over doctrine or dogma; but may also be done at their request for personal reasons, such as running for civil office, taking over a family business, declining health or old age, desire to marry against the rules for clergy in a particular church, or an unresolved dispute. The form of the procedure varies according

Belgian roman-catholic priest and writer (1910-1985)

Ecuadorian Catholic priest

Dutch priest

French physician, priest and mystic (1773–1838)

Polish politician (born 1967)

American priest (1925-2020)

Dominican friar who became an anti-Trinitarian

American psychologist (1928–2015)

Australian sprinter (1909–1951)

American writer

British theologian

American Roman Catholic priest

Portuguese politician of the 3rd republic

defrocked American priest (1931-2020)

Lithuanian politician

Gibraltarian politician (1938-2013)

Australian laicised Catholic priest and sex offender (1934–2025)

Italian priest

British political activist

American author, historian, and journalist

Irish Roman Catholic priest and serial child rapist

British priest, journalist, editor and biographer (1930-1994)

former Catholic priest and human rights activist