In the Catholic Church, Servant of God is the style used for a person who has been posthumously declared "heroic in virtue" during the investigation and process leading to canonisation as a saint.[1]
The term is used in the first of the four steps in the canonization process. The next step is being declared Venerable, upon a decree of heroism or martyrdom by the honored. That is followed by beatification, with the title of Blessed. After the confirmation of miracles resulting from the intercession of the honored, the final step is canonization, where the honored would receive the title of Saint.
List
editThe 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 | ||
| Ángel Herrera Oria | 1968 | 1996 | |
| Angela Iacobellis | 1961 | 1991 | |
| Antoni Gaudí | 1926 | 2000 | |
| Anita Moreno | 1977 | 2018 | Panamanian laywoman[2] |
| Akash Bashir | 2015 | 2022 | Pakistani security guard and martyr |
| Antony Thachuparambil | 1963 | 2009 | |
| Barbora Žagarietė | 1648 | 2015 | |
| Bartolomé de las Casas | 1566 | 2002 | |
| Bastiampillai Anthonipillai Thomas | 1964 | 2006 | |
| Pope Benedict XIII | 1730 | 1755 | |
| Black Elk | 1950 | 2017 | [3] |
| Blandina Segale | 1941 | 2015 | |
| Simon Bruté | 1839 | 2005 | First Bishop of Vincennes, Indiana and spiritual director to St. Elizabeth Ann Seton |
| Buenaventura Codina y Augerolas | 1857 | Spanish bishop | |
| Carlo Braga | 1971 | 2013 | |
| Giuseppe Castagnetti | 1965 | 2009 | Roman Catholic politician |
| Catherine Doherty | 1985 | 2000 | |
| Cecilia Rosa de Jesús Talangpaz | 1731 | 1999 | |
| Charles Journet | 1975 | Swiss theologian and cardinal | |
| Chiara Corbella Petrillo | 2012 | 2018 | |
| Cícero Romão Batista | 1934 | 2022 | Professed priest |
| Dalisay Lazaga | 1971 | 2012 | |
| Darwin Ramos | 2012 | 2019 | Street child, Duchenne muscular dystrophy |
| Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin | 1840 | 2005 | Russian aristocrat, founder of Loretto, Pennsylvania |
| Dionisia de Santa María Mitas Talangpaz | 1732 | 1999 | |
| Domingos Chohachi Nakamura | 1940 | 2002 | Japanese priest and missionary |
| Dorothy Day | 1980 | 2000 | |
| Edward J. Flanagan | 1948 | 2012 | |
| Eileen Rosaline 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 | |
| Elisabeth Leseur | 1914 | 1934 | |
| Élisabeth of France | 1794 | 1953 | martyred during French Revolution |
| Eliswa Vakayil | 1831 | 2008 | |
| Emil Kapaun | 1951 | 1993 | U.S. Army Chaplain during the Korean War |
| 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 | martyred in Schloss Hartheim[5] |
| Ezechiele Ramin | 1985 | 2017 | Italian missionary priest martyred in Brazil |
| Ferdinando Casagrande | 1944 | 1998 | martyred in Marzabotto |
| Fidelis Thaliath | 2008 | 2021 | |
| 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 | ||
| Francisco Rodrigues da Cruz | 1948 | 1951 | |
| François-Marie-Benjamin Richard | 1908 | Archbishop of Paris | |
| Frank Duff | 1980 | 1996 | |
| Geevarghese Ivanios | 1953 | 2007 | |
| George Vakayil | 1931 | 2013 | Indian priest[6][7] |
| Gerard Raymond | 1932 | 1968 | French-Canadian seminarian |
| Gordon Anthony Pantin | 2000 | 2013 | Archbishop of Port of Spain[8] |
| Helena Kmieć | 2017 | 2024 | Polish missionary[9] |
| Xu Guangqi | 1633 | 1933 (redeclared 2010) | |
| 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 | |
| Henryk Szuman | 1939 | 2003 | martyred in Bydgoszcz[10] |
| Ida Mari | 1981 | ||
| Isaac Hecker | 1888 | 2008 | |
| Isabella I of Castile | 1504 | 1974 | |
| Jacques Hamel | 2016 | 2017 | French Catholic priest, killed in an attack, qualified as a martyr by Christians including Pope Francis. |
| James II of England | 1701 | 1734 | Jacobite claimant to the throne of England |
| Johann Baptist Reus | 1985 | 1994 | German priest |
| John Pozzobon | 1947 | 1953 | Brazilian Permanent deacon |
| John Hardon | 2000 | 2002 | |
| John Peter Savarinayagam | 1979 | 2019 | Capuchin Priest |
| Józef Cyrek | 1940 | 1994 | |
| Jules Chevalier | 1907 | 2012 | Professed 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 | |
| Luis Chávez | 1987 | predecessor to Oscar Romero | |
| Luis Cáncer | 1549 | 2015 | [11] |
| Luisa Piccarreta | 1947 | 2006 | |
| Madeleine Delbrêl | 1964 | 2018 | |
| 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[12] |
| Mathew Kavukattu | 1969 | 1994 | |
| Mathew Makil | 1914 | 2009 | |
| Áron Márton | 1980 | 1998 | Bishop of Alba Iulia; declared Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in 1999. |
| Matilde Salem | 1961 | 1961 | |
| Matteo Ricci | 1610 | 1984 (redeclared 2010) | |
| Maurice Michael Otunga | 2003 | 2010 | The first cardinal of Kenya |
| Michelle Duppong | 2015 | 2022 | FOCUS Missionary[13] |
| Moises Crespo Gonzalez | 1980 | 2015 | Panamanian Augustinian Priest[14] |
| Leonia Nastał | 1940 | 2016 | Polish nun[15] |
| 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 | |
| Pope Pius VII | 1823 | 2007 | |
| Prosper Guéranger | 1875 | 2005 | |
| Rafael Merry del Val | 1930 | 1953 | |
| Raymond FC Mascarenhas | 1960 | 2008 | |
| Reynolds Purackal | 1988 | 2010 | |
| Romano Guardini | 1968 | 2017 | |
| Rubén Isidro Alonso | 1992 | 2014 | Uruguayan Streetwise priest |
| Stefano Gobbi | 2011 | 2024 | Priest and Founder of the Marian Movement of Priests |
| Salvo D'Acquisto | 1943 | 2001 | |
| Santa Scorese | 1991 | 1998 | Martyred for defending her chastity[16] |
| Sepé Tiaraju | 1756 | 2017 | Guarani Leader[17] |
| Shahbaz Bhatti | 2011 | 2016 | Pakistani politician |
| Stanisław Wiórek | 1939 | 1994 | |
| Terence Cooke | 1983 | 1992 | Archbishop of New York and Cardinal |
| Theodore Foley | 1974 | 2008 | |
| Thea Bowman | 1937 | 1990 | |
| Therese Neumann | 1962 | 2005 | German mystic |
| Thomas Cooray | 1988 | 2011 | |
| Toni Zweifel | 1989 | Swiss engineer and founder of the Limmat Foundation | |
| Trương Bửu Diệp | 1946 | 2014 | |
| Ubaldo Marchioni | 1944 | 1998 | Martyred in Marzabotto |
| Vincent R. Capodanno | 1967 | 2006 | A United States Navy Chaplain who was 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[18] |
| Walter Ciszek | 1984 | 1990 | |
| Willi Graf | 1943 | 2017 | |
| William Finnemann | 1942 | 1999 | |
| Zilda Arns Neumann | 2010 | 2015 | Brazilian Brazilian physician and philanthropist |
See also
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References
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- ^ Śmigiel, Adriana. "Maria Leonia Nastał - Służebnica Boża (1)". niedziela.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2024-04-20.
- ^ "Santa Scorese prima di essere uccisa: qualunque cosa mi succeda ho scelto Dio" [Santa Scorese before being killed: whatever happens to me I have chosen God]. it.aleteia.org (in Italian). 25 November 2021.
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