List of fictional clergy and religious figures

Clergy and other religious figures have generally represented a popular outlet for pop culture, although this has tapered in recent years. Some of the more popular clergy, members of religious orders and other religious personages featured in works of fiction are listed below.

This list is incomplete.

NOTE: All names on list are in Western order (first name, last name) when applicable.

Contents

1 Christianity

2 Shinto

2.1 Priests
2.2 Miko

2.2.1 Miko from Shrine of the Morning Mist

2.3 Kuro Miko

3 Buddhism

3.1 Mahayana

3.1.1 Priests
3.1.2 Monks

3.1.2.1 Monks from Shaolin Soccer
3.1.2.2 Monks from Mortal Kombat

3.2 Vajrayana

3.2.1 Monks

4 Judaism

5 Fictional Religions

5.1 Yevonism (from Final Fantasy X)

5.1.1 Maesters
5.1.2 Summoners

5.2 The Church of Aram (from The Elder Gods)

5.2.1 Andari
5.2.2 Heria

5.3 Bajoran Religion from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

6 Other/Unclassified

7 See also

Christianity

Roman Catholic Church

Priests

Father Alexander Anderson - Hellsing
Pfarrer Guido Braun - Pfarrer Braun, a 2003 German TV series based on the Father Brown stories
Father Ben - fictional character from (meta-fictional) television show that Father Ted watched.
Father Ralph de Bricassart - The Thorn Birds
Father Brennan - The Omen
Father John Brown - created by G. K. Chesterton
Father Donald Callahan - Stephen King's novel 'Salem's Lot and in The Dark Tower series
Don Camillo Tarocci - Giovanni Guareschi's tales.
Father Ted Crilly - Father Ted TV series
Father Frank Dowling - Father Dowling Mysteries TV series
Father Ellerton - Priest (1994 movie)
Father Stephen Fermoyle - The Cardinal by Henry Morton Robinson
Father Andrew Graham - Yakitate!! Japan
Belial (Betheal) Gavarre - Priest manga
Father Jack Hackett - Father Ted TV series
Father Damien Karras - The Exorcist
Father Peter Lonergan - The Quiet Man
Father John Majeski - All in the Family TV series
Father Dougal McGuire - Father Ted TV series
Father Lancaster Merrin - The Exorcist
Father John Patrick Francis Mulcahy - M*A*S*H (TV series)
Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner) - The X-Men
Father Chuck O'Malley - Going My Way and The Bells of Saint Mary's
Father Paneloux - The Plague
Father Greg Pilkington - Priest (1994 movie)
Father Philip Prestwick - Father Dowling Mysteries TV series
Priest (no name given) - The Power and the Glory, a novel by Graham Greene
Father Emilio Sandez - Jesuit priest-linguist in Mary Doria Russell's novels Children of God and The Sparrow
Father Guido Sarducci - Vatican gossip columnist played by comedian Don Novello on Saturday Night Live and other TV shows and movies
Father Spiletto - The Omen
Father Matthew Thomas - Priest (1994 movie)

Nuns

Sister Angela - One-Pound Gospel
Sister Barbara Bennett - Change of Habit
Rosette Christopher - Chrono Crusade
Ciel - Tsukihime, Melty Blood and Shingetsutan Tsukihime
Sister Laura Donnelly - Love is a Many Splendored Thing
Sister Euphemia - Nuns on the Run
Felicia - Darkstalkers
Sister Michelle Gallagher - Change of Habit
Sister Mako Graham - Yakitate!! Japan
Sister Inviolata - Nuns on the Run
Sister Irene Hawkins - Change of Habit
Sister Kate - TV series Sister Kate
Sister Mary of the Annunciation - Nuns on the Run
Sister Mary Benedict - The Bells of St. Mary's
Sister Mary Clarence (Whoopi Goldberg) - Sister Act and Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
Sister Mary of the Sacred Heart - Nuns on the Run
Sister Mary Stigmata (a.k.a. "The Penguin") - The Blues Brothers
Sister Miyako - Kannazuki no Miko
Sister Josepha Montafiore (Natascha McElhone) - Revelations TV miniseries
Sister Olav - The Far Arena
Sister Stephanie "Steve" Oskowski - Father Dowling Mysteries TV series
Sister Yukariko Sanada - Mai-HiME
Sister Thornly - Time Squad

Nuns from The Flying Nun

Sister Ana
Sister Bertrille/Elsie Ethrington (Sally Field)
Sister Jacqueline
Reverend Mother Superior Plaseato
Sister Sixto
Sister Theresa

Nuns from The Sound of Music

Mother Abbess
Sister Bernice
Sister Berthe
Sister Margaretta
Sister Sophia

Nuns from Black Narcissus

Sister Briony (Judith Furse)
Sister Clodagh (Deborah Kerr)
Mother Dorothea (Nancy Roberts)
Sister Honey (Jenny Laird)
Sister Phillipa (Flora Robson)
Sister Ruth (Kathleen Byron)

Monks

Adso of Melk (Benedictine)- The Name of the Rose novel & movie
Brother Brace - RuneScape
Brother Cadfael (Benedictine) - mystery novels by Edith Pargeter
Caraccioli - (Dominican) - A General History of the Robberies and Murders Of the most notorious Pyrates by Charles Johnson
Friar Carl - Van Helsing
Friar Domingo - Shogun, played by Michael Hordern in the 1980 TV miniseries.
Brother Dominic - TV ads for Xerox photocopiers
"Friar Fuck" - Sex and the City
Father Imperius - Ladyhawke
Friar Lawrence - Romeo and Juliet
Brother Theo (Dominican) - Babylon 5
Friar Tuck - Robin Hood
William of Baskerville (Franciscan) - The Name of the Rose novel & movie

Bishops

Bishop of Aquila - Ladyhawke
Bishop Len Brennan - Father Ted TV series

Popes

Pope Bernadette II - Crusade
Pope Celestine VI - Council by Greg Tobin
Pope David I - (Robbie Coltrane) The Pope Must Die
Pope Joan - female pope in De septem donis Spiritu Sancti ("The Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit"), a medieval satire of the Church written circa 1250
Pope John Calvin - novel The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Pope Kiril I - The Shoes of the Fisherman, played by Anthony Quinn in the movie based on that novel
Pope Hadrian XI - The Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem
Pope Oswald - Battle Pope
Pope Peter II - The Accidental Pope by Raymond Flynn and Robin Moore
Pope Pius - The Pope Must Die
Pope Pius XV - Babylon 5 universe
Pope Genevieve G. Rota - Lexx
Pope Urban X - Candide
The Space Pope (Crocodylus pontifex) - Futurama

Eastern Orthodox Church

Monks

Theodorus Philetas -The History of the Necronomicon by H. P. Lovecraft
Elder Zosima - The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Anglican/Episcopal Churches

Priests

William Collins - Pride and Prejudice, novel by Jane Austen; also several film and TV adaptations
Canon d'Ascoyne ("The Parson") - Kind Hearts and Coronets, one of eight roles played by Alec Guinness in that film.
Geraldine Grainger - The Vicar of Dibley TV Series
Graham Hess - Signs
Archdeacon Grantly - Chronicles of Barsetshire series of novels by Anthony Trollope
Septimus Harding - Chronicles of Barsetshire series of novels by Anthony Trollope
Cyril Playfair - The Quiet Man
Obadiah Slope - Chronicles of Barsetshire series of novels by Anthony Trollope
Reverend Doctor Christopher Syn - Doctor Syn series of novels by Russell Thorndike
The Rev. Mr. Wainwright (played by Nicholas Parsons) - Doctor Who serial The Curse of Fenric
Mike Weber - Soul Man TV Series
Reverend Jonathan Whirley (Christopher Plummer) - Dragnet (1987 movie)

Bishops

"The Baby-Eating Bishop of Bath and Wells" - Blackadder II TV series
Henry Brougham - The Bishop's Wife
"The Episcopal Ghost" - The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis
Bishop Proudie - Chronicles of Barsetshire series of novels by Anthony Trollope

Protestantism

Baptist Ministers

Chaplain Captain Albert T. Tappman - Catch-22, novel by Joseph Heller

Congregationalist Ministers

Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale - The Scarlet Letter
Abner Hale - Hawaii novel & movie

Lutheran Pastors

Pastor Ingqvist (Lake Wobegon Lutheran Church) - A Prairie Home Companion

Methodist Ministers

Chaplain James J. Banquette - the man impersonated by adult bookstore janitor Miles Derry on a US Navy ship in One of the Guys, novel by Robert Clark Young
Rev. Karen Stroup - King of the Hill