List of fictional clergy and religious figures

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

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

Christianity

Catholic Church

Monks and friars

Nuns

Priests

Bishops

Popes

Saints

  • Saint Grobian – a fictional patron saint of vulgar and coarse people in various late Medieval satirical works.

Other

  • Dean Jocelin - Dean of the cathedral in William Golding's The Spire.

Eastern Orthodox Church

Nuns

Anglican/Episcopal churches

Priests

Bishops

Mormonism

Fundamentalist leaders

Other Protestants

Baptist ministers

Methodist ministers

Non-denominational/other/unspecified/fictional Protestant

Unspecified/pre-schism/other religious workers

Shinto

Miko

(Names are listed by alphabetically by given name in the western convention of given-name, surname for clarity.)

Buddhism

Mahayana

Monks

Monks from Mortal Kombat

Unless specified, all belong to the Shaolin discipline.

Shamanism

Ainu religion

North American shamanist

Judaism

Other/unclassified

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