The Catholic Church recognises certain deceased Catholics as saints, beati, venerabili, and servants of God. In the post-Reformation period, some such people have been born, died, or lived in the United Kingdom.
Saints
| Image | Name | Born | Died | Church Status | Diocese | Type of Cause |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Henry Newman | 21 February 1801 London, England | 11 August 1890 Edgbaston, Birmingham, England | Priest of the Oratorians (Birmingham Congregation); Cardinal | Birmingham | Heroic Virtues | |
| Opening of Cause: 17 June 1958 Declared "Venerable": 22 January 1991 Beatified: 19 September 2010 by Pope Benedict XVI Canonized: 13 October 2019 by Pope Francis | ||||||
| Carlo Acutis | 3 May 1991 London, England | 12 October 2006 Monza, Monza e Brianza, Italy | Child | Milan | Heroic Virtues | |
| Opening of Cause: 13 May 2013 Declared "Venerable": 5 July 2018 Beatified: 10 October 2020 by Cardial Agostino Vallini Canonized: 7 September 2025 by Pope Leo XIV[1] | ||||||
Blesseds
| Image | Name | Born | Died | Church Status | Diocese | Type of Cause |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Domenico Barberi (rel. name: Dominic of the Mother of God) | 22 June 1792 Viterbo, Italy | 27 August 1849 Reading, Berkshire, England | Professed Priest, Congregation of the Passion of Jesus Christ (Passionists) | Rome and Westminster | Heroic Virtues | |
| Opening of Cause: 12 April 1905 Declared "Venerable": 16 May 1937 Beatified: 27 October 1963 by Pope Paul VI | ||||||
| Michael Iwene Tansi (rel. name: Cyprian) | September 1903 Igboezum, Aguleri, Anambra, Nigeria | 20 January 1964 Coalville, Leicestershire, England | Professed Priest, Cistercians of the Strict Observance (Trappists) | Onitsha and Nottingham | Heroic Virtues | |
| Opening of Cause: 3 February 1986 Declared "Venerable": 11 July 1995 Beatified: 28 March 1998 by Pope John Paul II | ||||||
Venerables
| Image | Name | Born | Died | Church Status | Diocese | Type of Cause |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Margaret Sinclair (rel. name: Mary Francis of the Five Wounds) | 29 March 1900 Edinburgh, Scotland | 24 November 1925 Warley, Essex, England | Professed Religious, Colettine Poor Clare Nuns | Brentwood and Saint Andrews-Edinburgh | Heroic Virtues | |
| Opening of Cause: August 1931 Declared "Venerable": 6 February 1978 | ||||||
| Mary Potter | 22 November 1847 London, England | 9 April 1913 Rome, Italy | Founder, Little Company of Mary | Rome | Heroic Virtues | |
| Opening of Cause: 1942 Declared "Venerable": 8 February 1988 | ||||||
| Cornelia Peacock Connelly | 15 January 1809 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States | 18 April 1879 Saint Leonards-on-Sea, Hastings, Sussex, England | Founder, Society of the Holy Child Jesus | Southwark | Heroic Virtues | |
| Opening of Cause: 12 November 1959 13 June 1992 | ||||||
| Joan Ward (rel. name: Mary) | 23 January 1586 Mulwith, North Yorkshire, England | 30 January 1645 Heworth, North Yorkshire, England | Founder, Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Sisters of Loreto) and the Congregation of Jesus | Middlesbrough and Munich–Freising | Heroic Virtues | |
| Opening of Cause: 11 October 1929 Declared "Venerable": 19 December 2009 | ||||||
| Bridget Teresa McCrory (rel. name: Mary Angeline Teresa) | 21 January 1893 Brockagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland | 21 January 1984 Germantown, New York, United States | Founder, Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm | Albany | Heroic Virtues | |
| Opening of Cause: 1 June 1989 Declared "Venerable": 28 June 2012 | ||||||
| Mary Jane Wilson (rel. name: Maria of Saint Francis) | 3 October 1840 Harihar, Davanagere, Karnataka, India | 18 October 1916 Funchal, Madeira, Portugal | Founder, Franciscan Sisters of Our Lady of Victories | Funchal | Heroic Virtues | |
| Opening of Cause: 7 November 1987 Declared "Venerable": 9 October 2013 | ||||||
| Frances Margaret Taylor (rel. name: Mary Magdalen of the Sacred Heart) | 20 January 1832 Stoke Rochford, Lincolnshire, England | 9 June 1900 London, England | Founder, Poor Servants of the Mother of God | Westminster | Heroic Virtues | |
| Opening of Cause: 2 June 1995 Declared "Venerable": 12 June 2014 | ||||||
| Sophia Leeves (rel. name: Marie–Veronique of the Passion) | 1 October 1823 Istanbul, Türkiye | 16 November 1906 Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France | Professed Religious, Discalced Carmelite Nuns; Founder, Sisters of the Apostolic Carmel | Bengaluru and Bayonne | Heroic Virtues | |
| Opening of Cause: 16 May 1997 Declared "Venerable": 8 July 2014 | ||||||
| Elizabeth Prout (rel. name: Mary Joseph of Jesus) | 2 September 1820 Coleham, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England | 11 January 1864 St Helens, Merseyside, England | Founder, Sisters of the Cross and Passion | Liverpool | Heroic Virtues | |
| Opening of Cause: 4 February 1994 Declared "Venerable": 21 January 2021 | ||||||
| George Spencer (rel. name: Ignatius of Saint Paul) | 21 December 1799 London, England | 1 October 1864 Carstairs, South Lanarkshire, Scotland | Professed Priest, Congregation of the Passion of Jesus Christ (Passionists) | Liverpool and Motherwell | Heroic Virtues | |
| Opening of Cause: 18 February 1992 Declared "Venerable": 20 February 2021 | ||||||
| Florence Kate Flanagan (rel. name: Maria Caterina) | 17 July 1892 London, England | 19 March 1941 Stockholm, Sweden | Professed Religious, Bridgettine Sisters | Diocese of Rome and Stockholm[2] | Heroic Virtues | |
| Opening of Cause: 15 December 2008 Declared "Venerable": 23 March 2023 | ||||||
| Madaleina Catherine Beauchamp Hambrough (rel. name: Maria Riccarda) | 10 September 1887 London, England | 26 June 1966 Rome, Italy | Professed Religious, Bridgettine Sisters | Rome[2] | Heroic Virtues | |
| Opening of Cause: 16 December 2009 Declared "Venerable": 27 January 2025 | ||||||
Servants of God
| Image | Name | Born | Died | Church Status | Diocese | Type of Cause |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James II (VII) Stuart | 14 October 1633 London, England | 16 September 1701 Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France | Married Layperson; King of England, Scotland and Ireland | Westminster | Heroic Virtues | |
| Opening of Cause: 1734[3][4] | ||||||
| Henriette Le Forestier d'Osseville (rel. name: Mère Saint Mary) | 19 April 1803 Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France | 28 April 1858 Norwood, London, England | Founder, Congregation of Our Lady of Fidelity | Bayeux-Lisieux and Southwark | Heroic Virtues | |
| Opening of Cause: 29 July 2006 | ||||||
| Margaret Hallahan | 23 January 1802 London, England | 11 May 1868 Stone, Staffordshire, England | Founder, Dominican Sisters of Saint Catherine of Siena (English Congregation) | Birmingham | Heroic Virtues | |
| Opening of Cause: 20 April 1994 | ||||||
| Caroline Jones Chisholm | 30 May 1808 Wootton, Northamptonshire, England | 25 March 1877 London, England | Married Layperson | Canberra-Goulburn[5] | Heroic Virtues | |
| Opening of Cause: 28 December 2008 | ||||||
| James Marshall | 19 December 1829 Edinburgh, Scotland | 9 August 1889 Margate, Thanet, Kent, England | Married Layperson | Cape Coast | Heroic Virtues | |
| Opening of Cause: 14 May 2019[6][7][8] | ||||||
| Adèle Euphrasie Barbier (rel. name: Marie of the Heart of Jesus) | 4 January 1829 Caen, Calvados, France | 18 January 1893 Sturry, Kent, England | Founder, Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions | Southwark | Heroic Virtues | |
| Opening of Cause: 11 October 1957 | ||||||
| Teresa Helena Higginson | 27 May 1844 Holywell, Flintshire, Wales | 15 February 1905 Chudleigh, Devon, England | Layperson | Liverpool | Heroic Virtues | |
| Opening of Cause: 26 June 1935 | ||||||
| Mary Janet Erskine Stuart | 11 November 1857 Cottesmore, Rutland, England | 21 October 1914 Roehampton, London, England | Professed Religious, Society of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Jesus | Southwark | Heroic Virtues | |
| Opening of Cause: 25 July 1952 | ||||||
| Antonio Mansi | 9 March 1896 London, England | 31 October 1918 Rome, England | Professed Religious, Conventual Franciscans | Rome[9] | Heroic Virtues | |
| Opening of Cause: 8 March 2019 | ||||||
| Marie-Adèle Garnier (rel. name: Marie of Saint Peter) | 15 August 1838 Grancey-le-Château-Neuvelle, Côte-d'Or, France | 17 June 1924 London, England | Founder, Benedictine Adorers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Montmartre and the Benedictines of the Sacred Heart of Montmartre | Langres[10] | Heroic Virtues | |
| Opening of Cause: 3 December 2016 | ||||||
| Artur Schulz | 11 November 1897 London, England | 30 January 1945 Bisztynek, Bartoszyce, Poland | Diocesan Priest | Warmia | Martyr in odium fidei, uti fertur | |
| Opening of Cause: 28 July 2007 | ||||||
| Sybil Kathigasu | 3 September 1899 Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia | 12 June 1948 Lanark, South Lanarkshire, Scotland | Married Layperson | Penang[11] | Heroic Virtues | |
| Opening of Cause: July 2024 | ||||||
| Clara Ellerker [Perrins] (rel. name: Mary of the Blessed Sacrament) | 18 October 1875 Handsworth, Staffordshire, England | 11 January 1949 Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago | Founder, Carmelite Sisters of "Corpus Christi" | Port of Spain | Heroic Virtues | |
| Opening of Cause: 19 August 1998 | ||||||
| John Randal Bradburne | 14 June 1921 Skirwith, Cumbria, England | 2 September 1979 Mutoko, Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe | Layperson; Member, Secular Franciscans | Harare[12] | Offer of Life | |
| Opening of Cause: 5 September 2019 | ||||||
| Jeremy Joyner White | 18 May 1938 Aldershot, Hampshire, England | 23 April 1990 Lagos, Nigeria | Married Layperson; Member, Opus Dei Movement | Lagos | Heroic Virtues | |
| Opening of Cause: 28 April 2016[8] | ||||||
| Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire | 7 September 1917 Chester, Cheshire, England | 31 July 1992 Cavendish, Suffolk, England | Married Layperson | East Anglia[13] | Heroic Virtues | |
| Opening of Cause: 8 September 2017 | ||||||
| Julius Kambarage Nyerere | 13 April 1922 Butiama, Mara, Tanzania | 14 October 1999 London, England | Married Layperson; President of Tanzania | Dar-es-Salaam and Westminster | Heroic Virtues | |
| Opening of Cause: 13 May 2005 | ||||||
| Andrew Bertie | 15 May 1929 London, England | 7 February 2008 Rome, Italy | Prince and Grand Master, Sovereign Military Order of Malta | Rome | Heroic Virtues | |
| Opening of Cause: 20 February 2015 | ||||||
| Clare Theresa Crockett (rel. name: Clare Maria of the Trinity and the Heart of Mary) | 14 November 1982 Derry, Northern Ireland | 16 April 2016 Playa Prieta, Manabí, Ecuador | Professed Religious, Servant Sisters of the Home of the Mother | Alcalá de Henares | Heroic Virtues | |
| Opening of Cause: 2 March 2023 | ||||||
| Ignacio Echeverría Miralles del Imperial | 25 May 1978 Ferrol, A Coruña, Spain | 3 June 2017 London, England | Layperson | Madrid and Westminster[14] | Offer of Life | |
| Opening of Cause: | ||||||
Candidates for Sainthood
This list includes individuals for whom there is a public petition to the bishop to commence an investigation into the heroic virtue of the individual leading to a decree declaring them to be a Servant of God.
| Image | Name | Born | Died | Church Status | Diocese | Type of Cause |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luisa Carvajal Mendoza | 2 January 1566 Jaraicejo, Cáceres, Spain | 2 January 1614 London, England | Layperson | Westminster | Heroic Virtues | |
| Eleanor Vaux Brooksby | c. 1560 North Northamptonshire, England | 1625 Leicestershire, England | Married Layperson | Nottingham | Heroic Virtues | |
| Anne Vaux | c. 1562 Great Harrowden, North Northamptonshire, England | c. 1637 Leicestershire, England | Layperson | Nottingham | Heroic Virtues | |
| Andrew White | c. 1579 London, England, United Kingdom | 27 December 1656 London, England, United Kingdom | Professed Priest, Jesuits | Baltimore[15] | Heroic Virtues | |
| Margaret Mostyn (rel. name: Margaret of Jesus) | 8 December 1625 Talacre, Flintshire, Wales | 29 August 1679 Lier, Antwerp, Belgium | Professed Religious, Discalced Carmelite Nuns | Antwerp | Heroic Virtues | |
| Alexander Cameron | 17 September 1701 Achnacarry, Lochaber, Scotland | 19 October 1746 Gravesend, Kent, England | Professed Priest, Jesuits | Glasgow[16] | Heroic Virtues | |
| Frances Dickinson (rel. name: Clare Joseph of the Heart of Jesus) | 12 July 1755 London, England | 27 March 1830 Port Tobacco, Maryland, United States | Professed Religious, Discalced Carmelite Nuns | Washington | Heroic Virtues | |
| Augustus Welby Pugin | 1 March 18112 Bloomsbury, London, England | 14 September 1852 Ramsgate, Kent, England | Married Layperson | Southwark | Heroic Virtues | |
| John Talbot, 16th Earl of Shrewsbury | 18 March 1791 Dodford with Grafton, Worcestershire, England | 9 November 1852 Naples, Italy | Married Layperson | Shrewsbury | Heroic Virtues | |
| Louisa Elizabeth Rolls Vaughan | 8 October 1810 London, England | 24 January 1853 Welsh Bicknor, Herefordshire, England | Married Layperson | Cardiff[17] | Heroic Virtues | |
| Cecil Chetwynd-Talbot | 17 April 1808 Great Haywood, Staffordshire, England | 13 May 1877 Rome, Italy | Married Layperson | Birmingham and Rome | Heroic Virtues | |
| John Bede Polding | 18 November 1794 Liverpool, England | 16 March 1877 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | Professed Priest, Benedictines (English Congregation); Archbishop of Sydney; Founder, Sisters of the Good Samaritan | Sydney[18] | Heroic Virtues | |
| Alice Mary Thorpe (rel. name: Catherine Mary Antoninus) | 1844 London, England | 2 March 1879 Sparkill, New York, United States | Founder, Dominican Sisters of Our Lady of the Rosary (now the Dominican Sisters of Sparkill) | New York | Heroic Virtues | |
| Georgiana Fullerton née Leveson-Gower | 23 September 1812 Tixall, Staffordshire, England | 19 January 1885 Bournemouth, Dorset, England | Married Layperson; Member, Secular Franciscans | Westminster | Heroic Virtues | |
| Margaret Radclyffe Livingstone Eyre | 16 June 1800 Maybole, South Ayrshire, Scotland | 3 September 1889 London, England | Married Layperson | Westminster | Heroic Virtues | |
| Julian Tenison-Woods | 15 November 1832 London, England | 7 October 1889 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | Diocesan Priest; Cofounder, Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart | Sydney | Heroic Virtues | |
| Alice Ingham (rel. name: Mary Francis) | 8 March 1830 Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England | 24 August 1890 Blackburn, Lancashire, England | Founder, Franciscan Missionaries of Saint Joseph | Lancaster | Heroic Virtues | |
| Sophia Charlotte Adams (rel. name: Mary Rose Columba) | 21 March 1832 Woodchester, Gloucestershire, England | 30 December 1891 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia | Professed Religious, Dominican Sisters of Saint Catherine of Siena (English Congregation) | Adelaide | Heroic Virtues | |
| Honoria Conway (rel. name: Mary Vincent) | 18 June 1815 Dover, Kent, England | 27 May 1892 Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada | Founder, Sisters of Charity of Saint John (now the Sisters of Charity of the Immaculate Conception) | Saint John | Heroic Virtues | |
| Henry Edward Manning | 15 July 1808 Totteridge, Greater London, England | 14 January 1892 London, England | Archbishop of Westminster; Cardinal; Member, Secular Franciscans | Westminster | Heroic Virtues | |
| Augusta Theodosia Drane (rel. name: Frances Raphael) | 28 December 1823 Bromley-by-Bow, Greater London, England | 29 April 1894 Stone, Staffordshire, England | Professed Religious, Dominican Sisters of Saint Catherine of Siena (English Congregation) | Birmingham | Heroic Virtues | |
| Elizabeth Hayes (rel. name: Mary Ignatius of Jesus) | 1823 Saint Peter Port, Guernsey | 6 May 1894 Rome, Italy | Founder, Franciscan Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception | Saint Paul and Minneapolis | Heroic Virtues | |
| Charlotte Montagu Douglas Scott | 10 April 1811 Longleat, Wiltshire, England | 18 March 1895 Ditton, Berkshire, England | Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh | Saint Andrews-Edinburgh | Heroic Virtues | |
| Catherine Rosamund Fitzgibbon (rel. name: Mary Irene) | 12 May 1824 London, England | 14 August 1896 New York City, New York, United States | Professed Religious, Sisters of Charity of New York | New York | Heroic Virtues | |
| Duncan McNab | 11 May 1820 Achrinich, Argyllshire, Scotland | 19 September 1896 Richmond, Victoria, Australia | Diocesan Priest | Melbourne | Heroic Virtues | |
| Charles Gordon O'Neill | 23 March 1828 Glasgow, Scotland | 8 November 1900 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | Married Layperson; Cofounder, Society of Saint Vincent de Paul | Sydney[19][20] | Heroic Virtues | |
| Herbert Vaughan | 15 April 1832 Gloucester, England | 19 June 1903 Mill Hill, Greater London, England | Archbishop of Westminster; Cardinal; Founder, St. Joseph's Foreign Mission Society of Mill Hill (Mill Hill Missionaries) | Westminster | Heroic Virtues | |
| Thomas [Roussel Davids] Byles | 26 February 1870 Leeds, West Yorkshire, England | 15 April 1912 aboard the RMS Titanic, at the North Atlantic Ocean | Diocesan Priest | Brentwood[21] | Offer of Life | |
| Agnes McLaren | 4 July 1837 Edinburgh, Scotland | 17 April 1913 Antibes, Alpes-Maritimes, France | Layperson; Member, Lay Dominicans | Saint Andrews-Edinburgh | Heroic Virtues | |
| Robert Hugh Benson | 18 November 1871 Crowthorne, Berkshire, England | 19 October 1914 Salford, Greater Manchester, England | Diocesan Priest | Westminster[22] | Heroic Virtues | |
| Honoria Gaffney (rel. name: Mary Evangelista) | 1 May 1853 Kilronan, County Galway, Ireland | 21 July 1920 Nottingham, England | Professed Religious, Sisters of Saint Joseph of Peace | Nottingham | Heroic Virtues | |
| Henry Palmer Chapman (rel. name: John) | 25 April 1865 Ashfield cum Thorpe, Suffolk, England | 7 November 1933 Stratton-on-the-Fosse, Somerset, France | Professed Priest, Benedictines (English Congregation) | Clifton | Heroic Virtues | |
| Cyril Jarrett (rel. name: Bede) | 22 August 1881 Greenwich, Greater London, England | 17 March 1934 London, England | Professed Priest, Dominicans | Birmingham | Heroic Virtues | |
| Gilbert Keith Chesterton | 29 May 1874 Kensington, Greater London, England | 14 June 1936 Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England | Married Layperson | Northampton[23][24] | Heroic Virtues | |
| Robert John Cairns | 21 August 1884 Glasgow, Scotland | 14 December 1941 Shangchuan, Guangdong, China | Priest of the Maryknoll Missionary Society | Glasgow[25] | Martyr in odium fidei, uti fertur | |
| Edward Charles [Ted] Harris | 19 July 1905 London, England | 21 December 1942 Malmal, Pomio, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea | Professed Priest, Missionaries of the Sacred Heart | Rabaul[26] | Martyr in odium fidei, uti fertur | |
| Joseph McNabb (rel. name: Vincent) | 8 July 1868 Portaferry, County Down, Ireland | 17 June 1943 London, England | Professed Priest, Dominicans | Westminster[27] | Heroic Virtues | |
| Caryll Houselander | 29 September 1901 Bath, Somerset, England | 12 October 1954 London, England | Layperson of the Archdiocese of Birmingham | Birmingham[28][29] | Heroic Virtues | |
| John Cyril Hawes | 7 September 1876 Richmond, Greater London, England | 26 June 1956 Miami, Florida, United States | Diocesan Priest | Geraldton and Nassau[30] | Heroic Virtues | |
| Laurence Samuel Gerald Vann | 24 August 1906 St Mary Cray, Greater London, England | 14 July 1963 Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England | Professed Priest, Dominicans | Westminster | Heroic Virtues | |
| Olive-Marie Bradley (rel. name: Marguerite) | 14 January 1911 Birkenhead, Merseyside, England | 25 November 1964 Dakwa, Bas-Uélé, Democratic Republic of Congo | Professed Religious, Ursuline Sisters of Hasselt | Buta[31] | Martyr in odium fidei, uti fertur | |
| Margaret Walker (rel. name: Mary Charles Magdalene) | 16 March 1881 Brighton, East Sussex, England | 27 February 1966 Calabar, Cross River, Nigeria | Founder, Handmaids of the Holy Child Jesus | Calabar[32] | Heroic Virtues | |
| Peter Biewer (rel. name: Aelred) | 23 June 1932 Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England | 24 December 1969 Nyegezi, Mwanza, Tanzania | Brother of the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers) | Mwana[33] | Martyr in odium fidei, uti fertur | |
| Christopher Henry Dawson | 12 October 1889 Hay-on-Wye, Brecknockshire, Wales | 25 May 1970 Budleigh Salterton, Devon, England | Married Layperson | Plymouth | Heroic Virtues | |
| John Ronald Reuel Tolkien | 3 January 1892 Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa | 2 September 1973 Bournemouth, Dorset, England | Married Layperson | Birmingham[34] | Heroic Virtues | |
| Martin Thomas | 25 April 1932 Sidcup, Greater London, England | 6 February 1977 Musami, Harare, Zimbabwe | Professed Priest, Jesuits | Harare[35] | Martyrs in odium fidei, uti fertur | |
| Christopher Shepherd-Smith | 28 January 1943 Geita, Tanzania | Professed Priest, Jesuits | ||||
| Pauline Wilkinson (rel. name: Mary Joseph) | 29 June 1917 Leigh, Greater Manchester, England | Professed Religious, Dominican Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus | ||||
| Desmond Donovan | 10 October 1927 Leeds, West Yorkshire, England | 15 January 1978 (disappeared) Makumbi, Goromonzi, Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe | Professed Priest, Jesuits | Harare[35] | Martyr in odium fidei, uti fertur | |
| Bernard Darke | 19 July 1925 Bournemouth, Dorset, England | 14 July 1979 Georgetown, Guyana | Professed Priest, Jesuits | Portsmouth[36][37] | Heroic Virtues | |
| John Francis McGrath | 24 May 1919 Birmingham, England | 24 April 1980 Mbale, Uganda | Priest of the Mill Hill Missionaries | Birmingham[38] | Martyr in odium fidei, uti fertur | |
| Douglas William Main (rel. name: John) | 21 January 1926 London, England | 30 December 1982 Montreal, Quebec, Canada | Professed Priest, Benedictines (English Congregation) | Montreal and Westminster | Heroic Virtues | |
| Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge | 24 March 1903 Sanderstead, Surrey, England | 14 November 1990 Robertsbridge, East Sussex, England | Married Layperson | Arundel-Brighton | Heroic Virtues | |
| Sean Devereux | 25 November 1964 Camberley, Surrey, England | 2 January 1993 Kismayo, Jubbada Hoose, Somalia | Layperson; Member, Salesian Cooperators | Arundel-Brighton[39] | Martyr in odium fidei, uti fertur | |
| Alan Richard Griffiths (rel. name: Swami Dayananda [Bede]) | 17 December 1906 Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England | 13 May 1993 Tannirpalli, Tamil Nadu, India | Professed Priest, Benedictines (Camaldolese Congregation) | Tiruchirapalli[40] | Heroic Virtues | |
| Kathleen Rosalind Dobbs Muggeridge | 8 December 1903 Château-d'Œx, Vaud, Switzerland | 11 June 1994 Welland, Ontario, Canada | Married Layperson | Arundel-Brighton | Heroic Virtues | |
| Christoper Mannion | 15 May 1951 Thornaby-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, England | 1 July 1994 Save, Gisagara, Rwanda | Professed Religious, Marist Brothers of the Schools | Butare[41] | Martyr in odium fidei, uti fertur | |
| George Haliburton Hume (rel. name: George Basil) | 2 March 1923 Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England | 17 June 1999 London, England | Archbishop of Westminster; Cardinal | Westminster and Hexham-Newcastle[42] | Heroic Virtues | |
| Eileen Mary Egan | 27 December 1911 Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales | 7 October 2000 New York City, New York, United States | Layperson; Member, Catholic Relief Services; Cofounder, Pax Christi USA | New York[43] | Heroic Virtues | |
| Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe Geach | 18 March 1919 Limerick, Ireland | 5 January 2001 Cambridge, England | Married Layperson | East Anglia | Heroic Virtues | |
| Joan Bartlett | 1 August 1911 Lancaster, Lancashire, England | 9 September 2002 London, England | Layperson; Founder, Servite Secular Institute | Westminster | Heroic Virtues | |
| Leader Dominic Stirling | 19 January 1906 Finchley, Greater London, England | 7 February 2003 Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania | Married Layperson | Dar-es-Salaam | Heroic Virtues | |
| Mary Sunniva Garson | 3 October 1921 Udny Green, Aberdeenshire, Scotland | 8 March 2007 Bognor Regis, Sussex, England | Founder, Benedictine Sisters of Grace and Compassion | Arundel-Brighton[44] | ||
| Tommy "Thomas" Burns | 16 December 1956 Calton, Glasgow, Scotland | 15 May 2008 Glasgow, Scotland | Married Layperson | Glasgow[45][46] | Heroic Virtues | |
| Brian Hilary Thorp | 30 January 1931 Yorkshire Bridge, Bamford, Derbyshire, England | 9 September 2008 London, England | Brother of the Mill Hill Missionaries[47] | Malindi | Martyr in odium fidei, uti fertur | |
| Joseph Wilson | 12 December 1994 Carfin, Motherwell, Scotland | 20 December 2011 Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, Scotland | Young Layperson | Motherwell[48] | Heroic Virtues | |
| Peter Thomas Geach | 29 March 1916 Chelsea, County of London, England | 21 December 2013 Cambridge, England | Married Layperson | East Anglia | Heroic Virtues | |
| Edward Kevin Daly | 5 December 1933 Ballyshannon, County Donegal, Ireland | 8 August 2016 Derry, Northern Ireland | Bishop of Derry | Derry | Heroic Virtues | |
| Michelle Frieda Totah (rel. name: Mary David) | 26 March 1957 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States | 28 August 2017 Isle of Wight, England | Professed Religious, Benedictine Nuns | Portsmouth | Heroic Virtues | |
| Pedro Ballester Arenas | 22 May 1996 Manchester, England | 31 January 2018 Manchester, England | Young Layperson; Member, Opus Dei Movement | Manchester[49] | Heroic Virtues | |
| Peter Joseph Reilly | 11 February 1915 Saltcoats, North Ayrshire, Scotland | 2 July 2018 Saltcoats, North Ayrshire, Scotland | Married Layperson | Galloway | Heroic Virtues | |
| Paul McAuley | 29 October 1947 Portsmouth, Hampshire, England | 2 April 2019 Iquitos, Belén, Maynas, Peru | Professed Religious, Brothers of the Christian Schools (De La Salle Brothers) | Portsmouth[50] | Martyr in odium fidei, uti fertur | |
| Michael Strode | 5 June 1923 Woking, Surrey, England | 27 December 2019 Cardiff, Wales | Oblate, Cistercians of the Strict Observance (Trappists) | Cardiff-Menevia[51] | Heroic Virtues | |
| Audrey Gladys Donnithorne | 27 November 1922 Santai, Sichuan, China | 9 June 2020 Hong Kong | Layperson | Hong Kong | Heroic Virtues | |
| Ryan Stawaisz | 18 August 1989 Aberdeen, Scotland | 21 June 2021 Tomball, Texas, United States | Diocesan Priest | Galveston-Houston[52] | Heroic Virtues | |
| David Anthony Andrew Amess | 26 March 1952 Plaistow, Essex, England | 15 October 2021 Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England | Married Layperson | Brentwood[53] | Martyr in odium fidei, uti fertur | |
| Janet Evelyn Longton Tempest | c. 1930 Buenos Aires, Argentina | 25 December 2021 Broughton Hall, North Yorkshire, England | Married Layperson | Leeds[54] | Heroic Virtues | |
| 80px | Katharine, Duchess of Kent | 22 February 1933 Hovingham, England | 4 September 2025 Kensington Palace, London, England | Married Layperson | Westminster[55] | Heroic Virtues |
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