Poet priests

English poet and cleric (1572-1631)

Spanish mystic and Roman Catholic saint (1542–1591)

English cleric and cardinal (1801–1890)

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

Columba () or Colmcille (7 December 521 – 9 June 597 AD) was an Irish abbot and missionary evangelist credited with spreading Christianity in what is today Scotland at the start of the Hiberno-Scottish mission. He founded the important abbey on Iona, which became a dominant religious and political institution in the region for centuries. He is the patron saint of Derry. He was highly regarded by both the Gaels of Dál Riata and the Picts, and is remembered today as a Catholic saint and one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland.

priest and author (1915–1968)

German writer

English poet (1844–1889)

Nicaraguan priest and politician (1925-2020)

Armenian monk

Spanish poet

English poet

Jesuit, author of Cautio Criminalis

Metropolitan of Pentapolis (1846–1920)

Welsh poet (1913–2000)

American writer, activist, lawyer and Episcopal priest (1910-1985)

English Jesuit and poet (1561–1595)

English poet and tutor (1463-1529)

Italian bishop

Irish archbishop, martyr and saint; (1629-1681)

Irish Roman Catholic priest, poet and historian

British churchman and poet (1792–1866)

Indian Carmelite priest and Religious Founder (1805–1871)

19th-century British hymn writer, Catholic priest, and theologian

Chinese painter (1632-1718)

Romanian poet and historian

Italian poet

Russian poet (1885–1942)

Irish teacher, poet, Bishop of Fiesole and saint

British opinion journalist, writer and poet (1890-1976)

American priest

Scottish Roman Catholic priest, poet, folklore collector, and activist

Georgian Catholic priest

American-Slovenian writer and priest (1785–1880)

British writer and translator

Irish Franciscan Archbishop of Armagh (1571–1626)

American priest and writer (1839–1886)