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List of Jesuits

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Ignatius of Loyola, recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church, founded the Society of Jesus in 1540.

This is an alphabetical list of historically notable members of the Society of Jesus.

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  • Père Louis Gaillard, French missionary to China
  • Marion M. Ganey, pioneer in credit union and coop movement in British Honduras and the South Pacific
  • Saint Henry Garnet, first English Provincial; executed after being implicated in the Gunpowder Plot
  • Saint Charles Garnier, North America martyr
  • John Gerard, English Jesuit; one of the few men to escape from the Tower of London
  • Jean-François Gerbillon, early missionary to China
  • Aquiles Gerste, philologist and linguist best known for his ethnographic and linguistic studies of the indigenous peoples of Mexico
  • Niccolò Gianpriamo, Italian missionary to China, astronomer
  • Filippo Salvatore Gilii, contributor in the field of South American historical linguistics
  • Paul Goethals, Belgian, first Archbishop of Calcutta
  • Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian jesuit; patron saint of students
  • Thyrsus González, Spanish 13th Superior General of the Society of Jesus
  • José Ignacio González Faus, Professor of Theology at the Faculty of Theology of Catalonia
  • John Goodman, jailed in England during the Long Parliament
  • Saint John Soan de Goto, martyred in Japan
  • Saint René Goupil, Jesuit brother and North American martyr
  • Baltasar Gracián, Spanish prose writer
  • Cardinal Aloys Grillmeier, German theoligian
  • Francesco Maria Grimaldi, 17th-century Italian mathematician, physicist and astronomer; accurately mapped the Moon; one of the first to suggest the wave-like nature of light
  • Saint Melchior Grodziecki, Polish martyr, patron of the city of Katowice
  • Gabriel Gruber, Viennese scientist, engineer and teacher, elected Vicar General of the Russian province during the Suppression of the Society
  • Paul Guldin, father of Guldinus theorem
  • José Gumilla, naturalist who studied the Orinoco, South America
  • Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Brazilian-Portuguese priest and mathematician; said to be an early inventor of the dirigible

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  • Georges Xenopulos, Greek bishop

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See also

References

  1. Back to citation Robert Aleksander Maryks; Jonathan Wright, eds. (2014). Jesuit Survival and Restoration: A Global History, 1773-1900. Studies in the History of Christian Traditions (revised reprint ed.). BRILL. p. 393. ISBN 978-9-0042-8387-9.
  2. Back to citation Father Gabriel Richard was briefly in the U.S. Congress in the 1820s, but as a territorial representative. Under guidelines released by Pope John Paul II, Catholic clergy are expected not to serve in positions of civil authority. Drinan did not seek re-election as a result of the issuance of these guidelines.
  3. Back to citation Official Returns - General Election - November 8, 1960 (PDF). Juneau: Office of the Alaska Secretary of State. 1960. p. 27. Retrieved January 23, 2012.
  4. Back to citation Tsong, Nicole (December 30, 2004). "Abuse claims breathe life into dead priests' past". Anchorage Daily News. Anchorage. p. A1. “A popular Jesuit priest -- the country's first Roman Catholic priest to serve in a state Legislature”
  5. Back to citation O’Conner, Thomas H. "Breaking the religious barrier", The Boston Globe, 10 May 2004.
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