List of post-reformation saints in the United Kingdom

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Cardinal Newman and Carlo Acutis, a British-born Italian teenager, were the first English saints from the post-Reformation era to be canonized.

This page is a list of post-reformation saints, blesseds, venerables, and Servants of God in the United Kingdom, as recognized by the Roman Catholic Church. These people were born, died, or lived their religious life in England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

Contents

Saints

Blesseds

Venerables

Servants of God

Candidates for Sainthood

This list includes individuals for whom there is a public petition to the bishop to commence an investigation into the heroic virtue of the individual leading to a decree declaring them to be a Servant of God.

See also

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Catholic Church in the United Kingdom</span>

The Catholic Church in the United Kingdom is organised into the Catholic churches in England and Wales, Scotland, and with Northern Ireland organised as part of the Catholic Church in Ireland. All as part of the worldwide Catholic Church in communion with the Pope. While there is no ecclesiastical jurisdiction corresponding to the United Kingdom as a whole, this article refers to the Catholic Church's geographical representation in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, ever since the establishment of the Kingdom of Great Britain by the Acts of Union 1707, and later the United Kingdom.

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