- Source: List of fictional clergy and religious figures
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.
Christianity
= Catholic Church
=Monks and friars
Frère Jacques
The Monk – The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Friar Tuck – Robin Hood
Ambrosio - The Monk
William of Baskerville – The Name of the Rose
Brother Cadfael – protagonist of historical mystery novels by Ellis Peters
Nuns
The Second Nun – The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Sister Fidelma – protagonist of historical mystery novels by Peter Tremayne
Ciel – Character from Tsukihime and the Melty Blood series
Sister Jeanne – from The Devils
Sister Bertrille (and several others) - from The Flying Nun
Sister Boniface (and others) - from Sister Boniface Mysteries
Sister Andrea - Evil (TV series)
Sister Assumpta (and others) - Father Ted
Sister Simone - from Mrs. Davis
Sister Michael - from Derry Girls
Priests
Claude Frollo – The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Claude Frollo – from the Disney adaptation
Father John Brown – created by G. K. Chesterton
Father Ted Crilly – Father Ted
Father Dámaso – Noli Me Tángere
Mr. Eko – Lost
Betheal Gavarre (Belial) – Priest manhwa
Father Dougal McGuire – Father Ted TV series
Father John Mulcahy – M*A*S*H TV series and film
Father Burke – The Conjuring franchise
Father Gordon – The Conjuring franchise
The Nun's Priest – The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Pardoner – The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Parson – The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Don Abbondio - The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
Father Guido Sarducci – Vatican gossip columnist played by comedian Don Novello on Saturday Night Live and other TV shows and films
Don Camillo Tarocci – Giovannino Guareschi's tales
Nicholas D. Wolfwood – Trigun
Enrico Pucci – a chaplain at the Green Dolphin Street Prison aspiring to achieve Heaven for all mankind, friend of DIO, main antagonist of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean
Kirei Kotomine – main antagonist of Fate/Stay Night, Fate/Zero and Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works, also has minor appearances in Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya, Fate/Stay Night: Heaven's Feel and Fate/Grand Order
Risei Kotomine - Kirei Kotomine's father, Fate/Zero
John Ward - The main protagonist of Faith: The Unholy Trinity
Father Garcia- Another protagonist of Faith: The Unholy Trinity
Father David Acosta (and others) - Evil
Father Jacob Myers (and others) - Apparitions
Padre Manuel Vergara - 30 Coins
Father Peter - Derry Girls
Bishops
Bishop René d'Herblay of Vannes – the D'Artagnan Romances novels of Alexandre Dumas, père
Bishop Len Brennan - Father Ted TV show
Popes
Pope Joan – 9th-century legendary figure
Pope Urban X – Candide (1759 satire)
Pope Hadrian VII – Hadrian the Seventh (1904 novel)
Pope John XXIV – Lord of the World (1907 novel)
Pope Sylvester III – Lord of the World (1907 novel)
Pope Kiril I – The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968 film)
Pope Sixtus VII – Good News from the Vatican (1971 short story)
Pope Urban IX – Urban the Ninth (1973 novel)
Pope Marx I – Marx the First (1975 novel)
Pope Peter II – Peter the Second (1976 novel)
Pope Francis I – The Vicar of Christ (1979 novel)
Pope Gregory XVII – Earthly Powers (1980 novel)
Pope John XXIX – The Last World (1988 short story)
Pope John Paul I (Cardinal Lamberto) – The Godfather Part III (1990 film)
Pope David I – The Pope Must Die (1991 film)
Pope Pius XX – 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997 novel)
Pope Genevieve G. Rota – Lexx (1997 TV series)
Pope Peter II – The Accidental Pope (2000 novel)
Pope Oswald Leopold II – Battle Pope (2000 comic book series)
Pope Peter II – The Third Secret (2005 novel)
Pope Innocent XIV - Conclave (2016 novel)
Pope Marcellus IX – Through Darkest Europe (2018 novel)
Pope Pius XIII – The Young Pope (2016 TV series) and The New Pope (2020 TV series)
A separate Pope Pius XIII - Oblivion (2012 novel)
Pope Francis II - The New Pope (2020 TV series)
Pope John Paul III – The New Pope (2020 TV series)
Saints
Saint Grobian – a fictional patron saint of vulgar and coarse people in various late Medieval satirical works
Saint Xynoris – A fictional Saint accidentally created through mistranslation
Other
Dean Jocelin - Dean of the cathedral in William Golding's The Spire.
= Eastern Orthodox Church
=Monks
Father Zosima – The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Nuns
Sister Pelagia – Pelagia and the White Bulldog and sequels by Boris Akunin
Saints
Saint Javelin – A fictional Ukrainian saint used as a propaganda symbol in the Russo-Ukrainian War
= Anglican/Episcopal churches
=Priests
William Collins – Pride and Prejudice, novel by Jane Austen; also several film and TV adaptations
Leonard Clement – The Murder at the Vicarage, novel by Agatha Christie
Theodore Venables – The Nine Tailors, novel by Dorothy L. Sayers
Reverend Doctor Christopher Syn – Doctor Syn series of novels by Russell Thorndike
Josiah Crawley – Chronicles of Barsetshire series of novels by Anthony Trollope
Theophilus Grantly – Chronicles of Barsetshire series of novels by Anthony Trollope
Dr Vesey Stanhope – Chronicles of Barsetshire series of novels by Anthony Trollope
Mark Robarts – Chronicles of Barsetshire series of novels by Anthony Trollope
Father Gabriel Stokes – The Walking Dead
Ashley Thomas – Emmerdale
Harriet Finch – Emmerdale
Charles Anderson – Emmerdale
Billy Mayhew – Coronation Street
Adam Smallbone – Rev.
Father Jack – Six Feet Under
Sidney Chambers – Grantchester
Daniel Webster – The Book of Daniel
Canon John Tallis – works of Madeleine L'Engle
Geraldine Granger — The Vicar of Dibley
Alf Bloxby (books) / Jez Bloxby (TV) - Agatha Raisin (TV series)
Bishops
Bishop Proudie of Barchester – Chronicles of Barsetshire series of novels by Anthony Trollope
= Mormonism
=Fundamentalist leaders
Bill Henrickson – Big Love
Roman Grant – Big Love
= Baptists
=Jesse Custer – Preacher, comic created by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
Chaplain Captain Albert T. Tappman – Catch-22, novel by Joseph Heller
= Methodists
=Father Mapple – Moby-Dick
Brother Justin Crow – an aspiring radio preacher in Carnivàle
Norman Balthus – Brother Justin's guardian and mentor in Carnivàle
= Other Protestants
=Derrial Book, Shepherd – Firefly
Caleb – Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Eric Camden – 7th Heaven
Ivan Isaacs – Priest
Reverend Timothy Lovejoy – The Simpsons
Reverend Harry Powell – The Night of the Hunter (1953)
William Stryker – Marvel Comics
Reverend Nathaniel Cole - Congregationalist minister in Hell on Wheels
Ruth Cole - Congregationalist preacher in Hell on Wheels
Joseph Black Moon - Congregationalist preacher in Hell on Wheels
Reverend Orville Swanson – Congregationalist minister in Red Dead Redemption 2
= Unspecified Christian
=Prester John – Christian priest-king of medieval legend
Shinto
= Miko
=(Names are listed by alphabetically by given name in the western convention of given-name, surname for clarity.)
Arashi Kishū – X
Ayako Matsuzaki – Ghost Hunt
Chikane Himemiya and Himeko Kurusugawa – Kannazuki no Miko
Kagome Higurashi, Kikyo, and Kaede – Inuyasha
Kagami Hiiragi and Tsukasa Hiiragi – Lucky Star
Kaho Mizuki – Cardcaptor Sakura
Machi Amayadori – Kuma Miko: Girl Meets Bear
Momiji – Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive
Nozomi Tojo - Love Live! School Idol Project
Koyori – Samurai Aces
Pocky – Pocky & Rocky
Sailor Mars (Rei Hino) – Sailor Moon
Sakura Miko – Hololive
Rika Furude – Higurashi: When They Cry
Ruka (Luka) Urushibara – Steins;Gate
Reimu Hakurei and Sanae Kochiya – Touhou Project
Saya Kisaragi – Blood-C
Togashi – Sengoku Blade
Princess Tomoyo – Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle
Yae Miko and Sangonomiya Kokomi – Genshin Impact
Yae Sakura – Honkai Impact 3rd
Utahime Iori – Jujutsu Kaisen
Buddhism
= Mahayana
=Monks
Kwai Chang Caine – Kung Fu
Hoichi the Earless (Zen) – Japanese folklore
Liu Kang – Mortal Kombat
Kung Lao – Mortal Kombat
Hinduism
= Sadhu
=Dhalsim – Street Fighter
Shamanism
= Ainu religion
=Nakoruru and Rimururu – Samurai Shodown
= North American shamanism
=Nightwolf – Mortal Kombat
Judaism
Rabbi David Small – Friday the Rabbi Slept Late
Rabbi Avram – The Frisco Kid
Unclassified, fictional, or non-specific religions
Adiris - Babylonian priestess, Dead by Daylight
Otto Stamper - leader of The Fold, a cult residing in The Garden of Joy, responsible for summoning The Dredge, Dead by Daylight
Abdul Alhazred - author of the Necronomicon, mentioned in various works by Howard Philips Lovecraft
The Lamb - unnamed protagonist of the indie video game Cult of the Lamb
The Vestal (Junia) - former priestess of an unknown church, Darkest Dungeon and Darkest Dungeon II
The Occultist (Alhazred) - former leader of a cult, Darkest Dungeon and Darkest Dungeon II
Bensheng - leader of Happiness Metta Power Group, a fictional cult, The Amazing Grace of Σ
Lin Lu-ho - leader of New Spiritual Society, a cult residing in Penghu, The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon
References
External links
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