In the Catholic Church, Servant of God is a title used for a person for whom a beatification process has been initiated.[1]
The term is used in connection with the opening of the process. The next step may to be declared venerable, upon a decree of heroic virtue or martyrdom. That may be eventually followed by beatification and eventually canonization.[1]
List
The following is an incomplete list of people currently declared to be a Servant of God. The list is in alphabetical order by Christian name but, if necessary, by surname or the place or attribute part of the name.
| Servant of God | Year of death | Year declared Servant of God | Notes / References |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adrienne von Speyr | 1967 | 2018 | Swiss theologian and physician |
| Alcide De Gasperi | 1954 | 1993 | Prime Minister of Italy |
| Afonso Sanches, Lord of Albuquerque | 1329 | 1723 | Portuguese noble |
| Ángel Herrera Oria | 1968 | 1996 | Spanish cardinal |
| Angela Iacobellis | 1961 | 1991 | |
| Anita Moreno | 1977 | 2018 | Panamanian laywoman[2] |
| Akash Bashir | 2015 | 2022 | Pakistani security guard and martyr |
| Anna Abrikosova | 1936 | Russian Greek Catholic, superior of Dominican third order regular sisters | |
| Antony Thachuparambil | 1963 | 2009 | |
| Baudouin of Belgium | 1993 | 2024 | King of the Belgians |
| Barbora Žagarietė | 1648 | 2015 | |
| Bartolomé de las Casas | 1566 | 2002 | Spanish priest |
| Bastiampillai Anthonipillai Thomas | 1964 | 2006 | founder of the Congregation of the Rosarians |
| Pope Benedict XIII | 1730 | 1755 | |
| Bernardin Gantin | 2008 | 2025 | Dean of the College of Cardinals |
| Black Elk | 1950 | 2017 | Catechist[3] |
| Blandina Segale | 1941 | 2015 | |
| Buenaventura Codina y Augerolas | 1857 | 1978 | Spanish bishop |
| Carlo Braga | 1971 | 2013 | Italian missionary |
| Giuseppe Castagnetti | 1965 | 2009 | Roman Catholic politician |
| Catherine Doherty | 1985 | 2000 | Russian writer and founder of the Madonna House Apostolate |
| Carmen Hernández | 2016 | 2021 | Spanish catechist and co-initiator of the Neocatechumenal Way |
| Cecilia Rosa de Jesús Talangpaz | 1731 | 1999 | |
| Charles Journet | 1975 | Swiss theologian and cardinal | |
| Chiara Corbella Petrillo | 2012 | 2018 | |
| Cícero Romão Batista | 1934 | 2022 | Diocesan priest |
| Clare Crockett | 2016 | 2024 | Irish religious sister and former actress |
| Dalisay Lazaga | 1971 | 2012 | |
| Darwin Ramos | 2012 | 2019 | Filippino layman |
| Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin | 1840 | 2005 | Russian aristocrat, founder of Loretto, Pennsylvania |
| Dionisia de Santa María Mitas Talangpaz | 1732 | 1999 | Filipino nun |
| Dolindo Ruotolo | 1970 | Italian diocesan priest | |
| Domingos Chohachi Nakamura | 1940 | 2002 | Japanese priest and missionary |
| Dorothy Day | 1980 | 2000 | American laywoman and social activist |
| Edward J. Flanagan | 1948 | 2012 | Founder of Boys Town |
| Eileen O'Connor | 1921 | 2018 | Co-founder of the Society of Our Lady's Nurses for the Poor |
| Elena of Montenegro, Queen of Italy | 1952 | 2001 | |
| Élisabeth Leseur | 1914 | 1934 | French mystic |
| Élisabeth of France | 1794 | 1953 | martyred during French Revolution |
| Emilia Anne Wojtyła | 1929 | 2020 | mother of Pope John Paul II[4] |
| Emiliano Tardif | 1999 | 2010 | |
| Eugenio Borg | 1967 | 1997 | First Superior General of the Society of Christian Doctrine (M.U.S.E.U.M.) |
| Euzebiusz Huchracki | 1942 | 2003 | Polish Franciscan friar[5] |
| Ezechiele Ramin | 1985 | 2017 | Italian missionary priest martyred in Brazil |
| Ferdinando Casagrande | 1944 | 1998 | Salesian priest, killed in the Marzabotto[6] |
| Fidelis Thaliath | 2008 | 2021 | Indian religious sister |
| Floripes Dornellas de Jesus | 1999 | 2005 | Brazilian mystic |
| Francis II of the Two Sicilies | 1894 | 2020 | King of the Two Sicilies |
| Francis Xavier Ford | 1952 | Bishop of Kaying | |
| Francisco Rodrigues da Cruz | 1948 | 1951 | Portuguese priest |
| François-Marie-Benjamin Richard | 1908 | Archbishop of Paris | |
| Frank Duff | 1980 | 1996 | Founder of the Legion of Mary |
| George Vakayil | 1931 | 2013 | Indian priest[7][8] |
| Giancarlo Rastelli | 1970 | 2005 | Italian physician |
| Gerard Raymond | 1932 | 1968 | French-Canadian seminarian |
| Gordon Anthony Pantin | 2000 | 2013 | Archbishop of Port of Spain[9] |
| Helena Kmieć | 2017 | 2024 | Polish missionary[10] |
| Hans Urs von Balthasar | 1988 | 2018 | Swiss theologian and priest |
| Hélder Pessoa Câmara | 1999 | 2015 | Archbishop of Olinda e Recife and cofounder of the Episcopal Conference of Brazil |
| Henry II the Pious | 1241 | 2015 | Polish monarch |
| Henryk Szuman | 1939 | 2003 | martyred in Bydgoszcz[11] |
| Ida Mari | 1981 | ||
| Isaac Hecker | 1888 | 2008 | Founder of the Paulist Fathers |
| Isabella I of Castile | 1504 | 1974 | Queen of Castille and León[12] |
| Jacques de Jésus (Père Jacques) | 1945 | 1997 | French Discalced Carmelite priest and headmaster; sheltered Jewish students from the Nazis; named Righteous Among the Nations (1985); died after imprisonment at Mauthausen-Gusen[13] |
| Jacques Hamel | 2016 | 2017 | French Catholic priest killed in the 2016 Normandy church attack |
| James II of England | 1701 | 1734 | Jacobite claimant to the throne of England |
| Johann Baptist Reus | 1985 | 1994 | German priest |
| John Hardon | 2000 | 2002 | American priest |
| John Peter Savarinayagam | 1979 | 2019 | Capuchin priest |
| Józef Cyrek | 1940 | 1994 | Polish writer |
| Jules Chevalier | 1907 | 2012 | Religious priest and founder of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart and the DOLSH Congregation |
| Julius Nyerere | 1999 | 2005 | First President of Tanzania |
| Karol Józef Wojtyła Sr. | 1941 | 2020 | Father of Pope John Paul II[4] |
| Léo Tarcísio Gonçalves Pereira | 2007 | 2020 | Brazilian Dehonian priest |
| Luciano Mendes de Almeida | 2006 | 2014 | Bishop of Mariana |
| Luigi Giussani | 2005 | 2012 | Founder of Communion and Liberation |
| Luisa Piccarreta | 1865 | 1947 | Italian mystic of Archdiocese of Trani |
| Luis Chávez | 1987 | 2001 | Predecessor to Oscar Romero |
| Luis Cáncer | 1549 | 2015 | [14] Spanish missionary |
| Maria Clotilde of Savoy | 1911 | 1942 | |
| Marcel Van | 1959 | 1997 | |
| Maria Esperanza de Bianchini | 2004 | 2010 | |
| Marie Gertrude Gros | 1905 | 2012 | |
| Marta Obregón Rodríguez | 1969 | 2011 | Martyred for defending her chastity[15] |
| Mathew Kavukattu | 1969 | 1994 | Archbishop of Changanassery |
| Matilde Salem | 1961 | 1961 | Syrian laywoman |
| Maurice Blondel | 1949 | 2025 | Philosopher |
| Maurice Michael Otunga | 2003 | 2010 | The first cardinal of Kenya |
| Michelle Duppong | 2015 | 2022 | FOCUS Missionary[16] |
| Moises Crespo Gonzalez | 1980 | 2015 | Panamanian Augustinian Priest[17] |
| Patrick Ryan | 1878 | 2016 | |
| Pedro Arrupe | 1991 | 2018 | Spanish Basque Jesuit priest and first responder to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima |
| Piotr Szarek | 1939 | 1994 | martyred during Occupation of Poland |
| Pope Pius VII | 1823 | 2007 | |
| Prosper Guéranger | 1875 | 2005 | |
| Rafael Merry del Val | 1930 | 1953 | Spanish cardinal |
| Raymond FC Mascarenhas | 1960 | 2008 | |
| Reynolds Purackal | 1988 | 2010 | |
| Romano Guardini | 1968 | 2017 | Italian priest and philosopher |
| Rubén Isidro Alonso | 1992 | 2014 | Uruguayan Streetwise Priest |
| Stefano Gobbi | 2011 | 2024 | Priest and Founder of the Marian Movement of Priests |
| Stephen Kim Sou-hwan | 2009 | 2024 | Archbishop of Seoul |
| Sybil Kathigasu | 1948 | 2024 | Malayan nurse |
| Santa Scorese | 1991 | 1998 | Martyred for defending her chastity[18] |
| Sepé Tiaraju | 1756 | 2017 | Guarani Leader[19] |
| Shahbaz Bhatti | 2011 | 2016 | Pakistani politician |
| Stanisław Wiórek | 1939 | 1994 | Martyred during the German Occupation of Poland |
| Terence Cooke | 1983 | 1992 | Archbishop of New York and Cardinal |
| Theodore Foley | 1974 | 2008 | Superior general of the Passionists. |
| Thea Bowman | 1990 | 1990 | Religious sister |
| Therese Neumann | 1962 | 2005 | German mystic |
| Thomas Byles | 1912 | 2015 | Roman Catholic priest who died on the Titanic |
| Thomas Cooray | 1988 | 2011 | Sri Lankan cardinal |
| Toni Zweifel | 1989 | 2018 | Swiss engineer and founder of the Limmat Foundation |
| Ubaldo Marchioni | 1944 | 1998 | Priest martyred in Marzabotto |
| Vincent R. Capodanno | 1967 | 2006 | United States Navy chaplain killed in the line of duty |
| Vital Maria Gonçalves de Oliveira | 1878 | 1994 | Bishop of Olinda |
| Vivian Uchechi Ogu | 1995 | 2009 | Martyred for defending her chastity[20] |
| Walter Ciszek | 1984 | 1990 | Polish-American priest and missionary |
| Willi Graf | 1943 | 2017 | Member of the White Rose |
| William Finnemann | 1942 | 1999 | |
| Xu Guangqi | 1633 | 1933 (redeclared 2011) | Ming-era politician |
| Zita of Bourbon-Parma | 1989 | 2009 | Last Empress Consort of Austria |
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