Talk:List of converts to Catholicism

Comments from 2005

Added a bunch, took some out. Wallace Stevens conversion seems to have been on his deathbed and is fairly highly disputed. Personally I think it'd be good to limit this to people who's conversion was in least somewhat noted in their lifetime. Like Oscar Wilde was going in that direction years before his actual deathbed conversion. Also it's noteworthy now for a certain ironic element. (Contemporary Catholicism being stricter on homosexuality than contemporary Anglicanism) I put Laxness in as his years as a Catholic were well known and mentioned in most biographies of him.

I put in some names of people that are seen solely as Catholics, but were in fact converts. In some cases they converted before they became noteworthy. I've considered putting Tolkien in, wasn't he originally Anglican?--T. Anthony 07:27, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

On further reading I wonder if I jumped the gun on Jing, he may've been born/raised a Catholic as Catholicism had been in China for generations at that point. Anyone know?--T. Anthony 02:01, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Neat additions from what I think is a newcomer. The articles on them make it a bit unclear when Griffiths, McLuhan, Pachman, and Vermeer became Catholic. I might add a bit on Griffiths and Vermeer to clarify that.--T. Anthony 13:08, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Looking at the "see also" section of List of converts to Islam they don't have the List of Critics of Islam, which includes former Muslims. I'm thinking I might take off the link to the "ex-Catholics." Yeah I know they're related concepts, I might just expand the see also so it's even less prominent section, going in line with the Muslim list.--T. Anthony 10:36, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Time frame

What is the time frame of this article? While one may not want to add Paul of Tarsus and other first Christians, where is Saint Augustine and Emperor Constantine? -Acjelen 04:40, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Good question. For a variety of reasons I think it'd be best to avoid people from before 1054 AD. For example Emperor Constantine is as much recognized as Orthodox as a Catholic. Outside of that I'm not sure.--T. Anthony 05:27, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

This article should be reorganized by former religion

For consistency reasons, this article should be reorganized by former religion.--Sefringle 03:31, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Feel free to do so.--T. Anthony 07:20, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Add

Someone should add the Osanna of Cattaro to the list... --PaxEquilibrium 00:11, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Removals

I've made a few, but one I'll mention is Elias Nelson Conway. According to the "Encyclopedia of Arkansas"

"At the height of the Know-Nothing era, Elias Conway attended some services of the Roman Catholic Church and was enthusiastically criticized for it in the Arkansas State Gazette and Democrat. In suggestive terms, a commentary and poem of December 14, 1855, characterized Conway’s relationship with Johnson—“Miss Nancy Con-a-way” and “the organ grinder”—and implied that his association with the Catholic Church and Bishop Andrew Byrne might give Conway “false notions of ‘connubial felicity.’” This was possibly directed at Conway’s presumed sexual orientation. Conway never married, and he never joined a specific religious denomination."--T. Anthony 07:38, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

I had to remove a great many references to get off spamblock. I might add some someday. Or others can.--T. Anthony 23:28, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Title vs content inconsistency

Title says Catholicism. Text says Roman Catholicism. Pick one.LeadSongDog 19:32, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

I don't see the problem here. They are synonymous. I'm not Catholic, and although we refer to our church as being the "One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church", nobody is going to read Catholicism and suppose that it means Greek Orthodoxy (etc.). Catholic, in popular usage, is unambiguous, and Catholicism is even less so. I don't think your concern is really warranted.--C.Logan 20:05, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Converts to Anglicanism

There are a large number of people who convert to churches in the Anglican communion, sometimes from the RC church. But the process is not as vigorous, and some people, eg Margaret Thatcher, just drift in without being confirmed. Also Anglicans are less good at public relations and are not liable to make such conversions high profile.

Having said that, I'll try to start an article and any contributions would be welcome. Ausseagull (talk) 09:47, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Beryl Bainbridge

Could someone please produce some evidence? Ausseagull (talk) 21:25, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

http://archive.catholicherald.co.uk/article/30th-november-2007/3/graham-greene-persuaded-me-to-become-catholic-says She converted after reading Graham Greene's The End of the Affair. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.2.200.229 (talk) 00:45, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

--Nguirado (talk) 00:07, 18 March 2014 (UTC)==Cleanup== I think that any unreferenced persons should be removed from this list, paring it down would make reorganization (by prior religion) much simpler and quicker. Reply here or on my talk page to discuss. Ncboy2010 (talk) 14:08, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Below you will find all the unreferenced items that I removed from the list, please re-add as reliable sources can be added.

User Ncboy is a self-proclaimed atheist and his actions are not based on policy, rather hate.

Many of the exclusions are famous converts, which Ncboy could annotate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.2.200.229 (talk) 00:50, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

For examble L. Brent Bozell, http://www.nndb.com/people/014/000363919/ also http://www.catholicsocialscientists.org/CSSR/Archival/1997/1997_323.pdf see page 325 paragraph 2 "Brent Bozell himself was a convert in his adolescent years."

Anne of Cleves... OMG http://www.angelfire.com/mi4/polcrt/ACleves.html

I suppose there needs to be a citation that sun came up today. Ncboy the self proclaim atheism should be banned from contributing to article for which he holds animus. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.2.200.229 (talk) 01:03, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Why are famous converts like John von Neumann excluded? He was an agnostic for most of his life and converted when he was near death. That's documented in his Wikipedia entry. Could it be because the creator of this article has animus towards the Church? Please don't let your hatred mess up Wikipedia. --Nguirado (talk) 00:07, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

A-D

• Approximately 400 Anglican priests in the UK, along with some politicians such as Ann Widdecombe and John Gummer who objected in 1993 to the ordination of women to the priesthood in the Church of England (see Graham Leonard, below).
• Harold Abrahams: British athlete; won gold medal in 100m at 1924 Summer Olympics; featured in 1981 film Chariots of Fire (converted from Judaism in 1934, after his athletic career concluded).
• Creighton Abrams: General in U.S. Army; tank commander in WWII (M1 Abrams main battle tank named after him); led U.S. forces in Vietnam from 1968–72.
• Mortimer Adler: editor of the Great Books series; American philosopher
• Mehmet Ali Ağca: Turkish born who shot and wounded Pope John Paul II in 1981. he became a Catholic during his time in prison (Citation? While he expressed interest, his actual conversion seems very much in doubt.)
• Fadhma Aït Mansour: Algerian singer
• James Alison: Catholic priest and theologian
• Magdi Allam: Egyptian-born Italian journalist and writer
• Pablo Alvaro: Spanish knight
• Anne of Cleves: Fourth wife of King Henry VIII of England.
• Hadley Arkes: Professor of Jurisprudence and American Institutions at Amherst College
• Augustus II of Saxony: German monarch
• Arthur Avalon: British orientalist
• Johann Christian Bach: German composer, eleventh son of Johann Sebastian Bach.
• Edward Lowth Badeley: English ecclesiastical lawyer.
• Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly: French novelist and short story writer
• Maurice Baring: English dramatist, poet, novelist, translator and essayist
• Barlaam of Seminara: Greek-Italian humanist, philologist, and theologian
• Binnie Barnes: British American actress, converted for her husband, Mike Frankovich
• Aubrey Beardsley: English illustrator, leading figure in the Aesthetic movement
• Peter Benenson: founder of human rights group Amnesty International
• Jean-Baptiste Belin: French painter
• Lennox Berkeley: English composer; converted in 1928
• Samuel-Jacques Bernard: French financier
• Basilios Bessarion: Leading fifteenth-century Greek humanist scholar. A leading Eastern bishop who worked for the reunion of Eastern and Western Churches at the Council of Florence; remained in the west and was made a Cardinal.
• Charles Bewley: Irish ambassador to Germany in period before World War II.
• Conrad Black: Canadian-British businessman and writer
• Félix Houphouët-Boigny: first President of Côte d'Ivoire
• Robert Bork: Leading Constitutional Law scholar, Yale Law School professor, U.S. Solicitor General, nominated for the United States Supreme Court
• John Boswell: American historian, writer, educator
• L. Brent Bozell, Jr.: American conservative activist and writer
• Walter Brandmüller: German historian and priest, now cardinal
• David-Augustin de Brueys: French theologian and dramatist
• Hermann Broch: Austrian writer
• Ferdinand Brunetière: French writer and critic
• John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg: Germanic aristocrat, converted from Lutheranism, who employed Gottfried Leibniz
• Buffalo Bill: American Old West legend (deathbed conversion)
• Ismaël Bullialdus: French astronomer
• Andrew Burnham: English Anglican Bishop of Ebbsfleet who converted in 2011 and became Catholic priest
• James Burnham: Leader of the Trotskiyite movement who later became a conservative
• Christopher Butler: English Benedictine and scholar
• Thomas R.D. Byles: English priest who remained on board the RMS Titanic as she was sinking, hearing confessions and giving absolution.
• Judith Cabaud: American-born French writer and musicologist.
• Kit Carson: American frontiersman
• Diana Serra Cary: Child actor (known as "Baby Peggy") from the silent era, took the name Serra from Junípero Serra
• John Chapman OSB: Benedictine scholar who had previously been an Anglican deacon
• G. K. Chesterton: English writer
• Florent Chrestien: French satirist
• Queen Christina of Sweden: Seventeenth-century monarch, abdicated throne to embrace Catholic faith
• Colin Clark: British economist who later moved to Australia, one of the first to advocate the use of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
• Brian Cleeve: Irish writer and broadcaster
• Emily Coleman: American-born expatriate writer
• Cornelia Connelly: American educator, founder of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus
• Gary Cooper: Oscar-winning American film actor
• Jacques de Coras: French poet
• Michael Coren: British-Canadian writer and broadcaster
• Philippe de Courcillon: French officer and author
• Amelia Curran: Irish painter
• André Dacier: French classical scholar and editor of texts
• John Dobree Dalgairns: English theologian
• Marcel Dassault: French aircraft industrialist
• Christopher Dawson: English historian

• Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne: French military leader
• Brita Sophia De la Gardie, Swedish noble
• Jules Doinel: founder of the modern 'Gnostic Church', convert in 1895

• John Dowland: English composer
• Jonathan Downes: English Cryptozoologist
• Ernest Dowson: English poet
• David Paul Drach: French Talmudic scholar
• Faye Dunaway: Oscar-winning American actress

E-K

• Ferdinand Eckstein: Danish-born German philosopher and playwright

Ronald Knox, Anglican minister, son of an Anglican bishop, and one of the greatest Catholic writers of the 20th century

• Mark Elliot: Canadian broadcaster
• Shusaku Endo: Japanese novelist who was baptized when his mother converted and remained Catholic
• Veit Erbermann: German theologian and controversialist
• E. E. Evans-Pritchard: British anthropologist
• Thomas Ewing: U.S. Senator from Ohio who served as Secretary of the Treasury and first Secretary of the Interior

• Tsuguharu Foujita: Japanese painter who took the name Leonardo on baptism.
• Elizabeth Fox-Genovese: Historian; feminist turned anti-feminist; Founder of the Institute of Women's Studies; wife of Eugene D. Genovese
• Johann Jakob Froberger: German composer and organist
• André Frossard: French writer and journalist, member of the Académie française from 1987 to his death
• Álvar García de Santa María: Spanish historian
• Julia Gardiner Tyler: First Lady of United States (1844–45), widow of President Tyler
• René Gâteaux: French mathematician
• Peter Geach: one of the foremost contemporary British philosophers
• Eugene D. Genovese: Award-winning historian of the American South and American slavery; first Marxist president of Organization of American Historians; husband of Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
• Fritz Gerlich: German journalist
• August Friedrich Gfrörer: German historian
• Eric Gill: British sculptor, typographer and engraver
• Newt Gingrich: American history professor, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and author
• René Girard: Franco-American anthropologist, converted through his research in human sciences
• Rumer Godden: English author of children's books, novels concerning India, and books on Catholic mysticism
• Lady Valerie Goulding (née Monckton): British-born, Irish-based disabilities activist and humanitarian
• John Gray: English aesthetic poet and translator
• Julien Green: French novelist
• Graham Greene: British novelist
• Vivien Greene: English authority on dolls' houses
• Bede Griffiths: cleric/mystic who bridged Catholicism and Hinduism by converting to Roman Catholicism, entering the Order of St Benedictine (OSB) and running a Catholic ashram
• Sir Alec and Lady Guinness: British actor and his wife
• Sir John Gummer: Conservative British politician, 1993
• Fabrice Hadjadj: French writer
• Theodor Haecker: German writer, translator and cultural critic
• Scott and Kimberly Hahn: American theologian, author, professor and his wife. Former Presbyterian minister.
• Margaret Radclyffe Hall: English poet and novelist
• Barbara Grizzuti Harrison: She wrote about being raised Jehovah's Witnesses, converted in part due to inspiration of the Catholic Worker Movement.
• Frederick Hart: (1943–1999) American sculptor, best known for his public monuments and works of art in bronze, marble, and clear acrylic (a technique he coined as "sculpting with light"). Notable work – Ex Nihilo maquette, Hart's winning design for The Creation sculptures on the National Cathedral, Washington D.C. See Wikipedia for Frederick Hart.
• Robert Stephen Hawker: English poet and antiquarian
• June Haver: American actress who considered becoming a nun after converting; became wife of Fred MacMurray
• Susan Hayward: Oscar winning American actress, who converted with her second husband Eaton Chalkley
• Anna Haycraft (aka Alice Thomas Ellis): British novelist. Raised as a Positivist she became a conservative Catholic critic of the Second Vatican Council
• Carlton Hayes: Historian and United States Ambassador to Spain during World War II
• Isaac Thomas Hecker: founder of the Paulist order, spent time at Brook Farm
• Richard Heller-Nicholas, poet and author, converted to Roman Catholicism at 22 years of age.
• Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse: German nobleman
• Elisabeth Hesselblad: Swedish nurse and nun; she was beatified
• Ernest Hemingway: American novelist, soldier and traveller
• King Henry IV of France
• Dietrich von Hildebrand: German theologian
• James Hope-Scott: English lawyer connected to the Oxford Movement
• Gerard Manley Hopkins: English poet and writer; Jesuit priest
• Doc Holliday: American gambler and gunfighter

• Bob Hope: Comedian and comic actor.
• Mieczysław Horszowski: Polish pianist
• Stephen Hough: British-Australian classical pianist
• Albert Hourani: Anglo-Lebanese historian and orientalist
• Thomas Howard: American writer and scholar

• Joris-Karl Huysmans: French novelist
• Laura Ingraham: American conservative talk radio host and author.
• Princess Irene of the Netherlands: her conversion, related to her marrying a Carlist, became something of a national issue.
• Levi Silliman Ives: Episcopal Church of the USA Bishop of North Carolina.
• Władysław II Jagiełło: King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
• James II of England: English monarch
• Jiao Bingzhen: Chinese painter and astronomer
• Jörg Jenatsch: Swiss political leader during the Thirty Years' War
• Bobby Jindal: Governor of the U.S. state of Louisiana
• Casey Jones, American railroad engineer
• Walter B. Jones U.S. politician, Member of the United States House of Representatives
• Ernst Jünger: German writer and philosopher
• Kim Dae-jung: 15th President of South Korea

• Sheila Kaye-Smith: English poet (with her husband in 1929)
• Katharine, Duchess of Kent: musical member of the British Royal Family
• Willmoore Kendall: Trotskiyite activist who became a conservative political scientist
• Joyce Kilmer: American journalist, poet, literary critic, lecturer and editor
• Orest Kiprensky: leading Russian portraitist in the Age of Romanticism
• Russell Kirk: American historian, moralist and social critic
• Ronald Knox: English theologian turned Roman Catholic priest and monsignor
• Dean Koontz: American novelist. Converted in college
• Ozana Kotorska: Serbian mystic and Anchoress
• Peter Kreeft: an apologist for Christianity, professor of philosophy at Boston College and The King's College, and author of many books
• Fritz Kreisler: Austrian violinist and composer
• Leopold Kronenberg: Polish banker
• Albert Küchler: Danish painter
• Lawrence Kudlow: American supply-side economist and cable TV talk show host
• William Kurelek: Canadian painter.
• Stephan Kuttner: German Canonist
• Demetrios Kydones: Byzantine theologian, writer and statesman

L-P

• George Parsons Lathrop: Poet and writer
• Rose Hawthorne Lathrop: Founder of Dominican nuns serving those with cancer, daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Christopher Lee (historian): British writer, political & constitutional historian and broadcaster
• Gertrud von Le Fort: German writer of novels, poems, and essays
• Graham Leonard: former Anglican Bishop of London
• Ignace Lepp: French psychiatrist and author
• Shane Leslie: Irish diplomat and writer
• Denise Levertov, British-American poet
• William Levy (actor), Cuban-American actor
• Saunders Lewis: Welsh writer
• Torgny Lindgren: Swedish writer, member of the Swedish Academy from 1991
• Paulina Longworth: Daughter of Alice Roosevelt Longworth
• Arthur Lourié: Russian composer
• Clare Boothe Luce: editor, author, journalist, congresswoman, ambassador, wife of Henry Luce
• Gertrud Luckner: German British-born righteous among the Nations
• Arnold Lunn: English writer
• Jean-Marie Lustiger: Cardinal Archbishop of Paris
• William P. Longley: American gunfighter
• James McAuley: Australian poet, converted in 1952.
• Claude McKay: African American poet and writer
• Alasdair MacIntyre: Scottish-born moral and political philosopher
• Ford Madox Ford: English writer, converted at age 19.
• Pierre Magnol: French botanist
• Gustav Mahler: Austrian classical composer
• Sara Maitland, British writer
• Curzio Malaparte: Italian journalist and writer
• Henry Edward Manning: Widowed Anglican priest who later became a Catholic Cardinal
• Gabriel Marcel: Existentialist philosopher, converted in adulthood.
• Ferdinand Marcos: Former President of the Philippines, born as an Aglipayan
• Countess Constance Markievicz (née Gore-Booth): Irish nationalist, politician and, between 1916 and 1923, a revolutionary
• Jacques Maritain: Neo-Thomist philosopher
• Raïssa Maritain: Poet and Philosopher
• Basil W. Maturin: Irish-born Anglican priest who later became a Catholic priest and writer, died on board the RMS Lusitania
• Claire McCaskill: US Senator from Missouri
• Norma McCorvey: anonymous plaintiff in Roe vs Wade
• Marshall McLuhan: Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar
• Carlos Menem: President of Argentina
• Thomas Merton: American Trappist monk and spiritual writer
• Frank Meyer: political philosopher, co-founder of National Review magazine
• Alice Meynell: Poet, suffragist
• Joseph Mielziner: French-born American theatrical scenic and costume designer
• Lorenzo Milani: Italian priest and educator
• Czesław Miłosz: Polish Nobel prize winning poet
• Walter Michael Miller, Jr.: American science fiction writer, author of A Canticle for Leibowitz
• David Mills: executive editor of the journal First Things
• Sherman Minton: United States Supreme Court justice
• George Jackson Mivart: English biologist
• Alexander Montgomerie: Scottish poet
• Charles Moore: British journalist
• Jan Andrzej Morsztyn: Polish poet and writer
• Malcolm Muggeridge: British writer and journalist (his wife, Kitty, was received into the Church at the same time)
• Paul Mulla: Turkish scholar and professor of Islamic Studies at the Pontifical Oriental Institute
• Adam Müller: German political philosopher and economist
• Les Murray: Australian poet and literary critic
• Jim Nabors: actor portraying "Gomer Pyle" and singer
• Takashi Nagai: Japanese medical doctor, victim of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki
• Bernard Nathanson: American medical doctor and fetologist, former abortionist, active leader in the pro-life movement until his death
• Patricia Neal: Oscar winning actress (Hud, 1963), converted months before she passed away in 2010
• Richard John Neuhaus: Priest, founder and editor of the journal First Things
• John von Neumann: A leading twentieth century mathematician, most well known for contributions to game theory, the mathematical formalization of quantum mechanics, and the theory and development of computers.
• John Henry Newman: Anglican clergyman, theologian, and leader of the Anglo-Catholic Oxford Movement who converted to Roman Catholicism in the 1840s, and was later appointed Cardinal-Deacon
• Keith Newton: Anglican bishop who converted to Roman Catholicism in the 2011, and was appointed after priest's ordination as Ordinary of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham
• Sister Nirmala: Successor to Mother Teresa as head of her worldwide order (first generation Indian of Nepalese extraction) on behalf of the poor, the Missionaries of Charity, coming from Brahminism, the highest caste of Hinduism
• Joshua Nkomo: Leader of Matabele tribe in Zimbabwe who helped bring about the demise of white-minority rule in then-Rhodesia.
• Robert Novak: From nominal Judaism. Leading Washington journalist, syndicated columnist, and conservative commentator.
• Alfred Noyes: He wrote about his conversion to Catholicism in The Unknown God
• Helena Nyblom: Swedish children's writer
• Natalija Obrenović: Queen Consort (1882–1889) and Regent (1889–1891) of Serbia
• Jacques Offenbach: composer and cellist
• Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani: Georgian writer
• William Edwin Orchard (1877-1955) British author, Presbyterian and Congregationalist minister.
• Johann Friedrich Overbeck: German painter
• Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski: Polish writer and journalist
• Henry Nutcombe Oxenham: English theologian (some leanings toward the Old Catholic Church)
• Ludek Pachman: Czechoslovakian chess grandmaster
• Coventry Patmore: English poet
• Danica Patrick: American Auto Racer
• Floyd Patterson: American boxer
• Christopher de Paus: Norwegian land owner, known as philanthropist and art collector
• Péter Pázmány: Hungarian philosopher, theologian, orator and statesman
• Joseph Pearce: English writer
• Paul Pellisson: French author
• Walker Percy: American writer
• Charice Pempengco: a Filipino singer, converted from the cult Iglesia ni Cristo
• Johann Pistorius: German controversialist and historian
• Linda Poindexter: former Episcopalian priest, wife of former National Security Advisor John Poindexter
• John Hungerford Pollen: English artist and writer
• Ramesh Ponnuru: political columnist, author, and a senior editor of National Review magazine
• Peter Poreku Dery: Ghanaian Cardinal
• Katherine Anne Porter: American writer, on and off convert
• Vincent Price: American actor, converted after marrying his third wife (actress Coral Browne, also a convert)
• Augustus Pugin: English-born architect, designer and theorist of design

Q–Z

• Marc-André Raffalovich: French poet and writer
• Andrew Michael Ramsay: Franco-Scottish writer
• Clemente Rebora: Italian poet and Rosminian priest
• R. R. Reno: Editor of the journal First Things
• Peter le Page Renouf: Egyptologist from Guernsey
• Alphonse Ratisbonne: French banker
• Gerard Reve: Dutch writer
• Alma Reville: Actress and assistant director who was married to Alfred Hitchcock for over 50 years and worked with him on projects.
• Knute Rockne: football coach at the University of Notre Dame
• Frederick Rolfe: English novelist and eccentric
• William S. Rosecrans Union General in American Civil War
• Joseph Rovan: French philosopher and politician
• Edmund Rubbra: English composer
• Peter Paul Rubens: prolific 17th-century Flemish painter, proponent of an exuberant Baroque style that emphasized movement, color, and sensuality.
• Thomas Fortune Ryan, U.S. tobacco and transportation magnate
• Nazli Sabri: Queen consort of Egypt
• Maurice Sachs: French writer
• Siegfried Sassoon: English poet and author
• Max Scheler: German philosopher
• Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel: German poet, critic and scholar
• Alfred Schnittke: Russian composer
• Dutch Schultz: American gangster (for his wife)
• E.F. Schumacher: Economist and author of "Small is Beautiful"
• Elizabeth Ann Seton: foundress of the 'American Sisters of Charity and first U.S.-born person to be canonized.
• Francesco Severi: Italian mathematician
• Frances Shand Kydd: mother of Diana, Princess of Wales
• William Tecumseh Sherman: American soldier, businessman, and author (re-baptized as a child by his adoptive parents after he was orphaned)
• Angelus Silesius: German mystic and poet
• Edith Sitwell: Eccentric British poet
• Sixtus of Siena: From Judaism, theologian believed to have coined the word "deuterocanonical"
• Skanderbeg: Albanian hero
• Richard Simpson: British writer and literary scholar
• Wesley Sneijder: Dutch international footballer
• David Snellgrove: English Buddhologist and Tibetologist
• Delia Smith: British cooking expert and cookbook writer
• Tony Snow: Political commentator, columnist, television news anchor, radio host, and third White House Press Secretary under President George H.W. Bush
• Queen Sofia: Greek princess who converted to marry King Juan Carlos I of Spain
• Reinhard Johannes Sorge: German dramatist and poet
• Etsuro Sotoo: Japanese sculptor
• Muriel Spark: British novelist (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
• Ignatius Spencer: British Passionist priest, son of the 2nd Earl Spencer

• Henri Spondanus: French Catholic jurist and historian
• Jean de Sponde: French poet
• Friedrich Staphylus: German theologian
• Ellen Gates Starr: American social reformer
• Nicholas Steno, Niels Stensen: Danish physician and scientist, pioneer of modern geology (Beatified by Pope John Paul II)
• Edith Stein: Philosopher, Catholic nun; Jewish by birth, died in a concentration camp during World War II; canonized a saint (St. Teresia Benedicta of the Cross, her monastic [Carmelite] name) in 1998 by Pope John Paul II.
• Karl Stern: Jewish German psychiatrist
• John Lawson Stoddard: American writer, hymn writer and lecturer
• Sven Stolpe: Swedish writer
• Francis Stuart: Irish nationalist writer and novelist; son-in-law of Maud Gonne, also a convert
• Su Xuelin: Chinese author and academic
• Montague Summers, author, former Church of England deacon
• Mary Surratt, first woman executed by the United States federal government
• Graham Sutherland: English painter
• Jón Sveinsson: Icelandic children's writer
• Italo Svevo: Italian businessman and author of novels, plays, and short stories
• Madame Swetchine: Russian writer and mystic
• Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux: French writer
• Alfred Tarski: Polish logician and mathematician (converted for social reasons)

• Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, daughter of a Mohawk warrior
• Sir John Thompson: the fourth Prime Minister of Canada
• Alice B. Toklas: lover and confidante of Jewish writer and poet Gertrude Stein
• J. R. R. Tolkien: British novelist (his mother converted when he was a small child and he was re-baptized)
• Valentin Tomberg: Russian Christian mystic and polyglot scholar
• Tran Le Xuan: Wife of Ngo Dinh Nhu
• Meriol Trevor: British biographer, novelist and children's writer
• Lars von Trier: Danish film director
• Margaret Trudeau: Wife of late former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau
• Malcolm Turnbull: Australian republican politician
• Victor Turner: British anthropologist
• Samuel Tuke: English army officer and playwright
• Julia Gardiner Tyler: widow of President Tyler
• Brahmabandhab Upadhyay: Bengali theologian and social reformer
• Sigrid Undset: Norwegian novelist, Nobel Prize (1928)
• Sheldon Vanauken: American author
• Paul Verlaine: French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the fin de siècle in international and French poetry.
• Karl Freiherr von Vogelsang: Austrian politician
• Joost van den Vondel: Dutch poet
• Johannes Vermeer: Dutch painter who converted in 1653
• Robert F. Wagner: U.S. Senator from New York, author of Wagner Act, father of mayor of New York City
• Bruno Walter: Austrian-born conductor and composer, who converted near the end of his life
• Françoise-Louise de Warens: Swiss benefactress and mistress of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Evelyn Waugh: British writer
• John Wayne: Oscar-winning American film actor (converted shortly before his death; all his wives and children were Catholics)
• Zacharias Werner: German poet, dramatist and preacher
• Mary Wesley: British writer and novelist
• E. T. Whittaker: Mathematician who converted in 1930, later served at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
• Ann Widdecombe: Conservative British politician, 1993
• Oscar Wilde: Irish novelist, playwright and wit (reportedly converted on his deathbed)
• Richard Williamson: English Bishop
• Mary Lou Williams: Jazz pianist
• Paul Williams: British professor at the University of Bristol. he was a Buddhist for many years
• Tennessee Williams: major American playwright and one of the prominent playwrights of the twentieth century
• Michael Willmann: German painter
• Johann Joachim Winckelmann: one of the founding fathers of modern archaeology
• Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick grandson of the Duke of Kent
• Lord Nicholas Windsor, son of the Duke of Kent
• Gene Wolfe: science fiction writer
• Jane Wyman: Oscar-winning American actress, first wife of movie star Ronald Reagan, who would become the 40th President of the United States
• Xu Guangqi (Baptismal name: Paul Xu): Chinese mathematician, one of the earliest Chinese converts
• R. V. Young: Literary critic and columnist
• Robert Charles Zaehner: British orientalist and religious scholar
• Carol Zaleski: Religion scholar and writer
• Zheng Zhilong: Chinese merchant, admiral, occasional pirate
• Israel Zolli, former chief Rabbi of Rome who was received into the Church with his wife in 1945; he took as his Christian name Eugenio.

Former Catholics

• Mary Kathleen Valentine Ackland, English poet: converted and left twice, in between which she was a member of the Communist Party
• Spyrydon Babskyi, Ukrainian hierarch for different Orthodox jurisdictions, who served some years as Catholic priest.
• Annie Dillard, renowned nature writer (Pilgrim at Tinker Creek) who converted during the early 1990s but left the Church during the 2000s.
• Rod Dreher – Conservative "Crunchy Con" columnist who converted to Catholicism from Methodism and then later converted to Eastern Orthodoxy.
• David Kirk: Mississippi-born and reared (as a Baptist) civil rights activist who became a (Melkite) Catholic priest, but late in life converted to Eastern Orthodox Christianity
• Robert Lowell: American poet who converted to Catholicism in 1940 but left the Church after only a few years.
• Edward Gibbon English historian and author of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, who converted to Catholicism as a young man but later renounced the faith and became anti-Christian.

Bringing some back with sources

Although I understand why it was cut back, man was it ever cut back! Some of the most famous converts, including saints and theologians, were taken off for a time there. (Maybe the person thought St. Edith Stein had always been Catholic?) But reviving it in full, exempting those who should have never been on it, is looking like a bigger job than I'm willing to do so I may stop now.--T. Anthony (talk) 04:35, 3 April 2013 (UTC) Lana Turner converted when she was a child but she was married many times, I think she didn't practice after a certain period in her life. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.115.2.245 (talk) 01:38, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

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The result of the move request was: Not moved. Non-admin closure. Per recent related WP:CFD discussion and WP:SNOW, both unanimously pointing in the same direction. Debresser (talk) 17:20, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

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List of converts to Catholicism → List of converts to the Catholic Church – Per WP:CONSISTENCY with Catholic Church. Catholicism also redirects to Catholic Church. This previous move is problematic. The user who asserts that "People convert to Catholicism, not the Church" perhaps didn't investigate the Nicene Creed. Chicbyaccident (talk) 12:28, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

• Oppose per everything that has been said in the recent CfD discussion on the topic, and also this one and this one (still open) and this one and this one (still open) and this one and also this RM of Portal:Catholicism etc. (Pinging participants in these discussions: @Timrollpickering, Marcocapelle, Oculi, Inter&anthro, Debresser, Explicit, and Fayenatic london: @Mr. Guye, Carlossuarez46, Laurel Lodged, Peterkingiron, Armbrust, StAnselm, and Dimadick: @Daask, Chris troutman, Andy M. Wang, Twillisjr, Andrewa, and BrownHairedGirl:). You keep bringing up this argument that Catholicism redirects to Catholic Church, and people keep telling you that although the redirect may be legit, the meaning of the terms are not identical. Looking up, the Oxford Dictionary defines Catholicism as 1. The faith, practice, and church order of the Roman Catholic Church. 1.1 Adherence to the forms of Christian doctrine and practice which are generally regarded as Catholic rather than Protestant or Eastern Orthodox. and Merriam-Webster defines Catholicism as 1. Roman Catholicism (itself defined as the faith, doctrine or polity of the Roman Catholic Church) and 2. the faith, practice or system of Catholic Christianity. So, basically, according to these definitions, the term Catholicism refers to faith, practice, doctrine, church order, polity or system, but does not equate with the Catholic Church itself. Place Clichy (talk) 16:37, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
• Oppose per above. On top of that, the pro-argument of the Nicene Creed is irrelevant for this discussion since the Nicene Creed has been adopted by many other churches next to the Catholic Church. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:45, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
• Oppose Catholicism is wider than the Catholic Church. Dimadick (talk) 17:52, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
• (edit conflict) Strongly oppose. Thank you Place Clichy for alerting me. Yes, Catholicism redirects to Catholic Church. I understand the reasoning for this, because there is semantic overlap and having two separate articles would make things confusing and result in scope-related disputes. I understand why "Catholic Church" has been chosen as the article's title; it refers to the institution and the community, and thus allows the article to detail the Church's doctrine and worldview (Catholicism) since that is a major part of the Catholic Church's notability. But when religious conversion is discussed, the focus is on the faith, the worldview, the theology, the doctrine, not the community or the institution. Catholicism is a belief system, the Catholic Church is the community built on that belief system. I don't know what the Nicene Creed has to do with this; one of the main reasons why the Creed is so notable is because it is considered the standard and backbone of Christianity almost everywhere, even after all the schisms Christianity has experienced. Conversion to Catholicism is more than having your name added to a list. It's an adoption of a new theology and lifestyle. So changing the name of a category about religious conversion from a focus on ideology to a focus on the institution makes no sense, especially if the members of the category stay exactly the same.  — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs)  18:38, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
• Oppose per everything above, and probably a snow close. StAnselm (talk) 19:18, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
• Oppose per above. Daask (talk) 21:36, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
• Oppose Don't care about consistency; look at WP:NAMINGCRITERIA for precision. Chris Troutman (talk) 01:29, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

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Should this be merged to List of converts to Christianity

It's a denomination of Christianity so should be merge this page with this? List of converts to Christianity 2600:1700:12F0:2370:410F:9878:1050:FC99 (talk) 02:33, 3 January 2024 (UTC)