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| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John of the Cross | John of the Cross | 1542 | 1591 | Spanish | Catholic priest, mystic, and a Carmelite friar of converso origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_the_Cross |
| Giles Fraser | Giles Anthony Fraser | 1964 | n/a | English | Anglican priest, journalist and broadcaster | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles_Fraser |
| Josephus | Flavius Josephus | none | 100 | null | first-century Romano-Jewish historian and military leader, best known for The Jewish War, who was born in Jerusalem—then part of Roman Judea—to a father of priestly descent and a mother who claimed royal ancestry | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus |
| Richard Wurmbrand | Richard Wurmbrand | 1909 | 2001 | Romanian | Evangelical Lutheran priest and professor of Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wurmbrand |
| Ivan Illich | Ivan Dominic Illich | 1926 | 2002 | null | Roman Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher, and social critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Illich |
| Judas Maccabeus | Judah Maccabee (or Judas Maccabeus | null | null | null | Jewish priest (kohen) and a son of the priest Mattathias | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judas_Maccabeus |
| Aaron | According to the Abrahamic religions, Aaron | null | null | null | prophet, high priest, and the elder brother of Moses | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron |
| Ezra | Ezra (; , ; fl. 480–440 BCE) | 480 | 440 BCE | null | Jewish scribe (sofer) and priest (kohen) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra |
| Andrew Weinstein | Revd. Andrew J. Weinstein | 1850 | 1915 | British | Anglican priest, deacon, diocesan chaplain and missionary | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Weinstein |
| Margot Adler | Margot Susanna Adler | 1946 | 2014 | American | author, journalist, lecturer, Wiccan priestess, and New York correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margot_Adler |
| Francisco Suárez | Francisco Suárez | 1548 | 1617 | Spanish | Jesuit priest, philosopher and theologian, one of the leading figures of the School of Salamanca movement, and generally regarded among the greatest scholastics after Thomas Aquinas | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Suárez |
| Lorenzo Da Ponte | Lorenzo Da Ponte | 1749 | 1838 | null | Italian, later American, opera librettist, poet and Roman Catholic priest | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_Da_Ponte |
| Gregory Baum | Gerhard Albert Baum | 1923 | 2017 | German | priest and theologian in the Catholic Church | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Baum |
| Peter Levi | Peter Chad Tigar Levi, FSA, FRSL | 1931 | 2000 | British | poet, archaeologist, Jesuit priest, travel writer, biographer, academic and prolific reviewer and critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Levi |
| Alexander Men | Alexander Vladimirovich Men | 1935 | 1990 | Russian | Orthodox priest, theologian, biblical scholar and writer on theology, Christian history and other religions | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Men |
| Setsuzo Kotsuji | was a Japanese Orientalist, and the son of a Shinto priest who descended from a long line of Shinto priests. During the Holocaust he helped Jewish refugees to escape the Nazis, arranging for them to stay first in Kobe and later in Japanese-occupied Shanghai. He also fought against Nazi-inspired anti-Jewish propaganda. A book about how he helped Jewish refugees | null | null | Japanese | Orientalist, and the son of a Shinto priest who descended from a long line of Shinto priests | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setsuzo_Kotsuji |
| Géza Vermes | Géza Vermes | 1924 | 2013 | British | academic, Biblical scholar, and Judaist of Hungarian Jewish descent—one who also served as a Catholic priest in his youth—and scholar specialized in the field of the history of religion, particularly ancient Judaism and early Christianity | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Géza_Vermes |
| Louis P. Sheldon | Louis P. Sheldon | 1934 | 2020 | American | Presbyterian pastor, and then Anglican priest, and chairman of the social conservative organization, the Traditional Values Coalition | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_P._Sheldon |
| Martin Rhonheimer | Martin Rhonheimer | 1950 | n/a | Swiss | political philosophy professor and priest of the Catholic personal prelature Opus Dei | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Rhonheimer |
| Emmanuel Lemelson | Father Emmanuel Lemelson | 1976 | n/a | American | Orthodox priest, social commentator and hedge fund manager | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Lemelson |
| Mattathias | Mattathias ben Johanan | 166 | 165 BCE | null | Kohen (Jewish priest) who helped spark the Maccabean Revolt against the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattathias |
| Nicky Gumbel | Nicholas Glyn Paul Gumbel | 1955 | n/a | English | Anglican priest and author in the evangelical and charismatic traditions | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicky_Gumbel |
| Paul Oestreicher | Paul Oestreicher | 1931 | n/a | null | Anglican priest, Quaker, peace and human rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Oestreicher |
| John of Ávila | John of Ávila | 1499 | 1569 | Spanish | priest, preacher, scholastic author, and religious mystic, who has been declared a saint and Doctor of the Church by the Catholic Church | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_Ávila |
| Menelaus (High Priest) | Menelaus | 167 | 160 | null | High Priest in Jerusalem from about 172 BC to about 161 BC. He was high priest at the beginning of the Maccabean revolt (167-160) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menelaus_(High_Priest) |
| Elias Friedman | Elias Friedman OCD | 1916 | 1999 | null | Carmelite priest | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_Friedman |
| Ichabod | Ichabod ( ʼīyḵāḇōḏ, – without glory | null | null | null | glory?") is mentioned in the first Book of Samuel as the son of Phinehas, a malicious priest at the biblical shrine of Shiloh, who was born on the day that the Israelites' Ark of God was taken into Philistine captivity | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichabod |
| Zoketsu Norman Fischer | Zoketsu Norman Fischer | null | null | American | poet, writer, and Soto Zen priest, teaching and practicing in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoketsu_Norman_Fischer |
| Zechariah ben Jehoiada | Zechariah ben Jehoiada | null | null | null | figure in the Hebrew Bible described as a priest who was stoned to death by Jehoash of Judah and may possibly have been alluded to in the New Testament | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zechariah_ben_Jehoiada |
| Henrique Henriques | Henrique Henriques | 1520 | 1600 | Portuguese | Jesuit priest and missionary who spent most of his life in missionary activities in South India | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrique_Henriques |
| Onias II | Onias II | 246 | 222 | null | son of Simon I. He was still a minor when his father died, so that his uncle Eleazar, and after him the latter's uncle Manasseh, officiated as high priests before he himself succeeded to that dignity | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onias_II |
| Gifford Palgrave | William Gifford Palgrave | 1826 | 1888 | English | priest, soldier, traveller, and Arabist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gifford_Palgrave |
| Raphael Hadane | Raphael Hadane | 1923 | 2020 | null | Liqa Kahenat (High priest) of Beta Israel in Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Hadane |
| Herman Slater | Herman Slater | 1938 | 1992 | American | Wiccan high priest and occult-bookstore proprietor as well as an editor, publisher, and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Slater |
| Victor de Waal | Victor Alexander de Waal | 1929 | n/a | British | Anglican priest | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_de_Waal |
| Florian Abrahamowicz | Florian "Floriano" Abrahamowicz | 1961 | n/a | Austrian | priest who was formerly the Prior of the Society of St. Pius X in northeastern Italy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian_Abrahamowicz |
| Pashhur | Pashur or Pashhur | null | null | null | name of at least two priests contemporary with the prophet Jeremiah and who are mentioned in the Book of Jeremiah | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pashhur |
| Alan Senauke | Hozan Alan Senauke | 1947 | n/a | null | Soto Zen priest, folk musician and poet residing at the Berkeley Zen Center (BZC) in Berkeley, California, where he currently serves as Abbot | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Senauke |
| Sceva | Sceva | null | null | null | Jew called a "chief priest" in , although whether he was a chief priest is disputed by some writers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sceva |
| Ananias ben Onias | Ananias the son of Onias | null | null | null | son of the Jewish high priest, Onias IV, who founded a Jewish Temple at Leontopolis in Egypt during the persecutions of Antiochus IV. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ananias_ben_Onias |
| Andronicus ben Meshullam | Andronicus ben Meshullam, a Jewish scholar of the 2nd century BCE. According to Josephus | null | null | null | representative of the Jews in their religious dispute with the Samaritans, which was held before King Ptolemy VI Philometor, about the year 150 BCE. Andronicus was said to have proved from the Scriptures the historic continuity of the Jewish high priests; and from the great respect which was accorded the Temple of Jerusalem even by the non-Jewish kings of Asia, he argued that the claim of the Samaritans that Mount Gerizim was the sacred place of worship for the Israelites was unjustified | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andronicus_ben_Meshullam |
| Ignatius Lissner | Ignatius F. Lissner, S.M.A. | 1867 | 1948 | French | Catholic priest who was instrumental in developing the ministry of the Church in the United States to the African American population | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignatius_Lissner |
| Judy Harrow | Judy Harrow | 1945 | 2014 | null | author, counselor, lecturer, and Wiccan priestess | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Harrow |
| Lexa Roséan | Lexa Roséan | 1958 | n/a | American | writer, dancer and psychoanalyst as well as a Wiccan high priestess in the neo-Gardnerian Minoan tradition | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexa_Roséan |
| Aleksei (convert) | Aleksei | null | null | Russian | archpriest who became known for converting to Judaism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksei_(convert) |
| Marcello Labor | Marcello Labor | 1890 | 1954 | Italian | Roman Catholic priest and former doctor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcello_Labor |
| Marie-Théodor Ratisbonne | Marie-Théodor Ratisbonne, N.D.S. | 1802 | 1884 | French | Jewish convert to the Catholic Church, who became a priest and missionary and who later founded the Congregation of Our Lady of Sion | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Théodor_Ratisbonne |
| Frank Damrosch Jr. | Frank Damrosch Jr. | 1888 | 1966 | American | Episcopal priest, author, and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Damrosch_Jr. |
| Martin Israel | Martin Spencer Israel | 1927 | 2007 | British | pathologist, Anglican priest, spiritual director and author of numerous books on Christian life and teaching | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Israel |
| Uri Ben Baruch | Uri Ben Baruch | 1898 | 1984 | null | Liqa Kahnet (High priest) and the main leader of the Ethiopian Jewish community for nearly 50 years, from the Italian occupation of Ethiopia and until his death | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uri_Ben_Baruch |
| Cyril Axelrod | Father Cyril Axelrod | null | null | null | deafblind Catholic priest of the Redemptorist Order known for his work with deaf and deafblind people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_Axelrod |
| Tadeusz Puder | Tadeusz Puder | 1908 | 1945 | Polish | Roman Catholic priest of Jewish origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadeusz_Puder |