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The following is a list of Catholic bishops, priests and religious who were awarded and nominated for the Nobel Prize.
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The following is a list of Catholic bishops, priests and religious who were awarded and nominated for the Nobel Prize.
| Year | Image | Laureate | Born | Died | Field | Citation | Nominator(s) |
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| 1958 |  | Georges Pire, O.P. (religious name: Dominique) | 10 February 1910 Dinant, Namur, Belgium | 30 January 1969 Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium | Peace | "for his efforts to help refugees to leave their camps and return to a life of freedom and dignity." [1] |
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| 1979 |  | Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, M.C. (religious name: Mother Teresa) | 26 August 1910 Skopje, North Macedonia | 5 September 1997 Kolkata, West Bengal, India | Peace | "for her work for bringing help to suffering humanity." [2] | |
| 1996 |  | Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, S.D.B. | 3 February 1948 Vemasse, Baucau, East Timor | Peace | "for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor." [3] (awarded together with East Timorese politician José Ramos-Horta) | Hilton Deakin, D.D. [4] (b. 1932) | |
| 2007 |  | Jose Ramon Villarin, S.J. [lower-alpha 1] | 30 January 1960 Manila, Philippines | Peace | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Al Gore (b. 1948) "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change." [7] |
| Image | Laureate | Born | Died | Years Nominated | Citation | Nominator(s) |
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| | Georges Lemaître | 17 July 1894 Charleroi, Hainut, Belgium | 20 June 1966 Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium | 1954 | "for his prediction of the expanding universe." [8] | Alexandre Dauvillier (1882–1979) |
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 | Jean-Baptiste Senderens | 27 January 1856 Barbachen, Hautes-Pyrénées, France | 26 September 1937 Barbachen, Hautes-Pyrénées, France | 1909, 1928, 1929 | "for his work on the catalytic hydrogenation of organic species in the presence of metals with Paul Sabatier." [9] |
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| | Georges Lemaître | 17 July 1894 Charleroi, Hainut, Belgium | 20 June 1966 Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium | 1956 | "for his primeval atom theory (Big Bang theory)." [8] | Don Yost (1893–1977) |
| Literature | ||||||
 | Alexander Baumgartner, S.J. | 27 June 1841 St. Gallen, Switzerland | 5 October 1910 Luxembourg City, Luxembourg | 1901, 1902, 1903 | [10] | Knud Karl Krogh-Tonning (1842–1911) |
 | Hartmann Grisar, S.J. | September 22, 1845 Koblenz, Germany | February 25, 1932 Innsbruck, Austria | 1902 | [11] | |
 | Andrés Manjón y Manjón [lower-alpha 2] | 30 November 1846 Sargentes de la Lora, Burgos, Spain | 10 July 1923 Granada, Spain | 1907 | [13] | Ángel Sánchez-Rubio Ibáñez (1852–1910) |
 | József Martoncsik, O.Praem (religious name: Mécs László) | 17 January 1895 Kostoľany nad Hornádom, Košice, Slovakia | 9 November 1978 Pannonhalma, Győr-Moson-Sopron, Hungary | 1969, 1970 | [14] | Watson Kirkconnell (1895–1977) |
 | Miquel Melendres i Rué | 11 March 1902 Girona, Spain | 10 March 1974 Tarragona, Spain | 1971 | [15] | Antoni Griera i Gaja (1887–1973) |
 | Ernesto Cardenal [lower-alpha 3] | 20 January 1925 Granada, Nicaragua | 1 March 2020 Managua, Nicaragua | 2005 | [17] | |
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 | Johann Martin Schleyer | 18 July 1831 Lauda-Königshofen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany | 16 August 1912 Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg, Germany | 1902 | "for having constructed the artificial language Volapük (1880)." [18] | Prince Alfred of Liechtenstein (1842–1907) |
 | Pope Benedict XV (baptismal name: Giacomo della Chiesa) | 21 November 1854 Pegli, Genoa, Italy | 22 January 1922 Rome, Italy | 1915, 1916, 1920 | "for his peace efforts and his work to ensure that prisoners of war were treated humanely." [19] |
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 | Cardinal Pietro Gasparri | 5 May 1852 Ussita, Macerata, Italy | 18 November 1934 Rome, Italy | 1919, 1920 | "for having written the papal peace plan and encouraged people to strive for peace through the papal guidelines for peace and understanding." [20] | Hans Reichel [lower-alpha 4] (?) |
 | Cardinal Désiré-Joseph Mercier | 21 November 1851 Braine-l'Alleud, Walloon Brabant, Belgium | 23 January 1926 Brussels, Belgium | 1920 | "for standing against the Germans when they burned the Louvain Library and deported workmen during the war, making him an international spokesman for the Belgians." [21] | Paul Fauchille (1858–1926) |
 | Robert Jacquinot de Besange, S.J. | 15 March 1878 Saintes, Charente-Maritime, France | 10 September 1946 Berlin, Germany | 1939 | "for setting up safety zones that saved over half a million Chinese people during the Second Sino-Japanese War." [22] | Jules Basdevant (1877–1968) |
 | Pope Pius XI [lower-alpha 5] (baptismal name: Ambrogio Ratti) | 31 May 1857 Desio, Monza e Brianza Italy | 10 February 1939 Vatican City | 1939 | "for his efforts to end the harsh dictatorships in fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union." [23] | Romualdo Silva Cortes (1880–1958) |
 | Pope Pius XII [lower-alpha 6] (baptismal name: Eugenio Maria Pacelli) | 2 March 1876 Rome, Italy | 9 October 1958 Castel Gandolfo, Rome, Italy | 1947, 1948 | "for his peace work during and after World War II." [25] |
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| | Georges Pire, O.P. (religious name: Dominique) | 10 February 1910 Dinant, Namur, Belgium | 30 January 1969 Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium | 1957, 1958 | "for his work to aid refugees in Europe and for his idea of creating homes for elderly refugees by making European villages is very original, but very practical." [26] [27] |
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 | Philippus van Straaten, O.Praem (religious name: Werenfried) | 17 January 1913 Mijdrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands | 13 January 2003 Bad Soden, Hesse, Germany | 1959 | "for his work with helping clerical refugees from Eastern Europe." [28] | Ferdinand de Waele (1896–1977) |
 | Félix Kir | 22 January 1876 Alise-Sainte-Reine, Côte-d'Or, France | 26 April 1968 Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France | 1960, 1961 | "for his work with mutual 'adoption' of cities around the world." [29] | Charles Dutheil (1897–1970) |
 | Pope Paul VI [lower-alpha 7] (baptismal name: Giovanni Battista Montini). | 26 September 1897 Concesio, Brescia, Italy | 6 August 1978 Castel Gandolfo, Rome, Italy | 1965, 1967 | "for his efforts for universal reconciliation, shown in various statements that was given during his visit to Jordan and Israel." [30] |
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 | Cardinal Joseph Leo Cardijn [lower-alpha 8] | 13 November 1882 Schaerbeek, Belgium | 24 July 1967 Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium | 1966 | "for his great achievements for the cause of peace through the worldwide establishment of the movement he founded, the Young Christian Workers, and his untiring quest for universal brotherhood resting on social justice." [32] |
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 | Henri Marie Grouès, O.F.M.Cap (religious name: Abbé Pierre) | 5 August 1912 Lyon, Rhône, France | 22 January 2007 Paris, France | 1967 | "for having inspired universal solidarity through the Emmaus movement, which helps thousands of poor, homeless people and refugees." [33] |
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| | Vicenç Ferrer Moncho, S.J. | 9 April 1920 Barcelona, Spain | 19 June 2009 Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India | 1968 | "for having uplifted the poor and exploited by means of education and self-help projects and having revitalized an ever-widening area of famine-threatened India with a movement based on the most fundamental of human values, a most significant contribution to the achievement of peace in our age, uplifting the poor and exploited by means of education and self-help projects." [34] | Francis X. Murphy (1914–2002) |
 | Archbp. Hélder Câmara | 7 February 1909 Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil | 27 August 1999 Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil | 1970, 1971, 1973 | "for his unique role in one of the poorest areas of Latin-America as a leader of the progressive minority of the Catholic Church and leading spokesman for non-violent methods to further social change where has played an important international role by contributing to a greater understanding in industrialized countries of the social reality in one of the poorest areas in the world" [35] |
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 | Stefan Wyszyński | 3 August 1901 Zuzela, Ostrów Mazowiecka, Poland | 28 May 1981 Warsaw, Poland | 1971 | "for his efforts to mediate disputes and prevent violence which could have had tragic consequences for social order and peace." [36] | Stanley Haidasz (1923–2009) |
| | Bp. Donal Lamont, O.Carm | 27 July 1911 Ballycastle, Ulster, Ireland | 14 August 2003 Dublin, Ireland | 1978 | "for his outspoken criticism against the racist policies of the Smith regime in Rhodesia." [37] [38] | |
 | Archbp. Óscar Romero [lower-alpha 9] | 15 August 1917 Ciudad Barrios, San Miguel, El Salvador | 24 March 1980 San Salvador, El Salvador | 1978, 1979 | "for defending human rights and freedom of the people, and denouncing the social injustices and military dictatorship in El Salvador." [39] [40] |
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 | Aloysius Schwartz [lower-alpha 10] | 18 September 1930 Washington, D.C., United States | 16 March 1992 Manila, Philippines | 1984, 1992 | "for his ministry to thousands of poor children around the world." [41] [42] | Bob Dornan (b. 1933) |
 | Archbp. Elias Chacour | 29 November 1939 Kafr Bir'im, Upper Galilee, Palestine | 1988, 1989, 1994 | "for his efforts in educating Palestinians, Jews, and Muslims on reconciliation and non-violent change in Israeli society." [43] [44] | ||
 | Maria Rita de Souza Pontes, S.M.I.C. [lower-alpha 11] (religious name: Dulce) | 26 May 1914 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil | 13 March 1992 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil | 1988, 1992 | "for her tireless caring of the poor and defending the rights of workers in Bahia. [45] [46] |
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 | Bp. Antonio Fortich | 11 August 1913 Negros Oriental, Philippines | 2 July 2003 Negros Occidental, Philippines | 1989 | "for being a strong advocate of the rights of the poor and a critic of an unjust social economic system." [47] [48] [49] |
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