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, although this has tapered in recent years. Some of the more popular clergy, members of religious orders and other religious personages featured in works of fiction are listed below.
NOTE: All names on list are in Western order (first name, last name) when applicable.
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Christianity
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Roman Catholic Church
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Priests
- Father Alexander Anderson - Hellsing
- Pfarrer Guido Braun - Pfarrer Braun, a 2003 German TV series based on the Father Brown stories
- Father Ben - fictional character from (meta-fictional) television show that Father Ted watched.
- Father Ralph de Bricassart - The Thorn Birds
- Father Brennan - The Omen
- Father John Brown - created by G. K. Chesterton
- Father Donald Callahan - Stephen King's novel 'Salem's Lot and in The Dark Tower series
- Don Camillo Tarocci - Giovanni Guareschi's tales.
- Father Ted Crilly - Father Ted TV series
- Father Frank Dowling - Father Dowling Mysteries TV series
- Father Ellerton - Priest (1994 movie)
- Father Stephen Fermoyle - The Cardinal by Henry Morton Robinson
- Father Andrew Graham - Yakitate!! Japan
- Belial (Betheal) Gavarre - Priest manga
- Father Jack Hackett - Father Ted TV series
- Father Damien Karras - The Exorcist
- Father Peter Lonergan - The Quiet Man
- Father John Majeski - All in the Family TV series
- Father Dougal McGuire - Father Ted TV series
- Father Lancaster Merrin - The Exorcist
- Father John Patrick Francis Mulcahy - M*A*S*H (TV series)
- Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner) - The X-Men
- Father Chuck O'Malley - Going My Way and The Bells of Saint Mary's
- Father Paneloux - The Plague
- Father Greg Pilkington - Priest (1994 movie)
- Father Philip Prestwick - Father Dowling Mysteries TV series
- Priest (no name given) - The Power and the Glory, a novel by Graham Greene
- Father Emilio Sandez - Jesuit priest-linguist in Mary Doria Russell's novels Children of God and The Sparrow
- Father Guido Sarducci - Vatican gossip columnist played by comedian Don Novello on Saturday Night Live and other TV shows and movies
- Father Spiletto - The Omen
- Father Matthew Thomas - Priest (1994 movie)
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Nuns
- Sister Angela - One-Pound Gospel
- Sister Barbara Bennett - Change of Habit
- Rosette Christopher - Chrono Crusade
- Ciel - Tsukihime, Melty Blood and Shingetsutan Tsukihime
- Sister Laura Donnelly - Love is a Many Splendored Thing
- Sister Euphemia - Nuns on the Run
- Felicia - Darkstalkers
- Sister Michelle Gallagher - Change of Habit
- Sister Mako Graham - Yakitate!! Japan
- Sister Inviolata - Nuns on the Run
- Sister Irene Hawkins - Change of Habit
- Sister Kate - TV series Sister Kate
- Sister Mary of the Annunciation - Nuns on the Run
- Sister Mary Benedict - The Bells of St. Mary's
- Sister Mary Clarence (Whoopi Goldberg) - Sister Act and Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
- Sister Mary of the Sacred Heart - Nuns on the Run
- Sister Mary Stigmata (a.k.a. "The Penguin") - The Blues Brothers
- Sister Miyako - Kannazuki no Miko
- Sister Josepha Montafiore (Natascha McElhone) - Revelations TV miniseries
- Sister Olav - The Far Arena
- Sister Stephanie "Steve" Oskowski - Father Dowling Mysteries TV series
- Sister Yukariko Sanada - Mai-HiME
- Sister Thornly - Time Squad
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Nuns from The Flying Nun
- Sister Ana
- Sister Bertrille/Elsie Ethrington (Sally Field)
- Sister Jacqueline
- Reverend Mother Superior Plaseato
- Sister Sixto
- Sister Theresa
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Nuns from The Sound of Music
- Mother Abbess
- Sister Bernice
- Sister Berthe
- Sister Margaretta
- Sister Sophia
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Nuns from Black Narcissus
- Sister Briony (Judith Furse)
- Sister Clodagh (Deborah Kerr)
- Mother Dorothea (Nancy Roberts)
- Sister Honey (Jenny Laird)
- Sister Phillipa (Flora Robson)
- Sister Ruth (Kathleen Byron)
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Monks
- Adso of Melk (Benedictine)- The Name of the Rose novel & movie
- Brother Brace - RuneScape
- Brother Cadfael (Benedictine) - mystery novels by Edith Pargeter
- Caraccioli - (Dominican) - A General History of the Robberies and Murders Of the most notorious Pyrates by Charles Johnson
- Friar Carl - Van Helsing
- Friar Domingo - Shogun, played by Michael Hordern in the 1980 TV miniseries.
- Brother Dominic - TV ads for Xerox photocopiers
- "Friar Fuck" - Sex and the City
- Father Imperius - Ladyhawke
- Friar Lawrence - Romeo and Juliet
- Brother Theo (Dominican) - Babylon 5
- Friar Tuck - Robin Hood
- William of Baskerville (Franciscan) - The Name of the Rose novel & movie
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Bishops
- Bishop of Aquila - Ladyhawke
- Bishop Len Brennan - Father Ted TV series
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Popes
- Pope Bernadette II - Crusade
- Pope Celestine VI - Council by Greg Tobin
- Pope David I - (Robbie Coltrane) The Pope Must Die
- Pope Joan - female pope in De septem donis Spiritu Sancti ("The Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit"), a medieval satire of the Church written circa 1250
- Pope John Calvin - novel The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
- Pope Kiril I - The Shoes of the Fisherman, played by Anthony Quinn in the movie based on that novel
- Pope Hadrian XI - The Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem
- Pope Oswald - Battle Pope
- Pope Peter II - The Accidental Pope by Raymond Flynn and Robin Moore
- Pope Pius - The Pope Must Die
- Pope Pius XV - Babylon 5 universe
- Pope Genevieve G. Rota - Lexx
- Pope Urban X - Candide
- The Space Pope (Crocodylus pontifex) - Futurama
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Eastern Orthodox Church
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Monks
- Theodorus Philetas -The History of the Necronomicon by H. P. Lovecraft
- Elder Zosima - The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Anglican/Episcopal Churches
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Priests
- William Collins - Pride and Prejudice, novel by Jane Austen; also several film and TV adaptations
- Canon d'Ascoyne ("The Parson") - Kind Hearts and Coronets, one of eight roles played by Alec Guinness in that film.
- Geraldine Grainger - The Vicar of Dibley TV Series
- Graham Hess - Signs
- Archdeacon Grantly - Chronicles of Barsetshire series of novels by Anthony Trollope
- Septimus Harding - Chronicles of Barsetshire series of novels by Anthony Trollope
- Cyril Playfair - The Quiet Man
- Obadiah Slope - Chronicles of Barsetshire series of novels by Anthony Trollope
- Reverend Doctor Christopher Syn - Doctor Syn series of novels by Russell Thorndike
- The Rev. Mr. Wainwright (played by Nicholas Parsons) - Doctor Who serial The Curse of Fenric
- Mike Weber - Soul Man TV Series
- Reverend Jonathan Whirley (Christopher Plummer) - Dragnet (1987 movie)
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Bishops
- "The Baby-Eating Bishop of Bath and Wells" - Blackadder II TV series
- Henry Brougham - The Bishop's Wife
- "The Episcopal Ghost" - The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis
- Bishop Proudie - Chronicles of Barsetshire series of novels by Anthony Trollope
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Protestantism
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Baptist Ministers
- Chaplain Captain Albert T. Tappman - Catch-22, novel by Joseph Heller
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Congregationalist Ministers
- Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale - The Scarlet Letter
- Abner Hale - Hawaii novel & movie
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Lutheran Pastors
- Pastor Ingqvist (Lake Wobegon Lutheran Church) - A Prairie Home Companion
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Methodist Ministers
- Chaplain James J. Banquette - the man impersonated by adult bookstore janitor Miles Derry on a US Navy ship in One of the Guys, novel by Robert Clark Young
- Rev. Karen Stroup - King of the Hill
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Presbyterian Ministers
- Rev. Macpherson - Local Hero
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Non-denominational/Other
- Marvin O. Bagman - Good Omens
- Chapel the Evergreen - Trigun
- Reverend Jimmy Lee Farnsworth (R. Lee Ermey) - Fletch Lives
- Reverend Felcher - All in the Family TV series
- Rev. Aaron Gilstrom (Ozzy Osbourne) - Trick or Treat (1986)
- Ivan Isaacs - Priest manga
- Billy Kosch - The Müller-Fokker Effect
- Reverend Timothy Lovejoy - The Simpsons ("American Presbylutheran")
- Jonas Nightengale - Leap of Faith (1992)
- Ray Porter - Pass the Ammo (1988)
- Nicholas D. Wolfwood - Trigun
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Unspecified/Pre-schism
- Prester John - Christian priest-king of medieval legend
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Shinto
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Priests
- Rei Hino's grandfather ("Jī-chan") - Sailor Moon
- Kagome's grandfather ("Jī-chan") - InuYasha
- Kazuki Ōgami - Kannazuki no Miko
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Miko
- Chikane Himemiya - Kannazuki no Miko
- Rei Hino - Sailor Moon
- Akari Ichijo - The Last Blade video game series
- Okuni Izumo - Samurai Deeper Kyo
- Kaede - InuYasha
- Kikyo - InuYasha
- Himeko Kurugisawa - Kannazuki no Miko
- Midoriko - InuYasha
- Yuki - The Last Blade video game series
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Miko from Shrine of the Morning Mist
- Kurako Hieda
- Tama Hieda
- Yuzu Hieda
- Shizuka Midō
- Seiko Rikīshi
- Izumi Sakakibara
- Chika Yurikasa
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Kuro Miko
While "Dark Miko" do not exist in real-world Shinto, a number of them appear in popular fiction.
- Mizuho Hamaji - Shrine of the Morning Mist
- Kukuri Shirayama - Shrine of the Morning Mist
- Tsubaki - InuYasha
- Yukie Uranami - Shrine of the Morning Mist
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Buddhism
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Mahayana
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Priests
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Monks
- Kwai Chang Caine (Shaolin) - Kung Fu
- Edge Master (Chan) - Soul Calibur
- Hoichi the Earless (Zen) - Kwaidan
- Inshun Hōzōin (Zen) - Vagabond
- Kilik (Chan) - Soul Calibur
- Miroku (Zen) - InuYasha
- Anji Yukyuzan (Zen) - Rurouni Kenshin
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Monks from Shaolin Soccer
- Empty Hand (Brother #4)
- Hooking Leg (Brother #2)
- Iron Head (Brother #1)
- Iron Shirt (Brother #3)
- Sing (Brother #5) (Stephen Chow)
- Weight Vest (Brother #6)
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Monks from Mortal Kombat
Unless specified, all belong to the Shaolin discipline.
- Bo' Rai Cho (Chan)
- Liu Kang
- Kai
- Kung Lao, the elder (aka the Great Kung Lao)
- Kung Lao, the younger
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Vajrayana
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Monks
- The Monk with No Name (Tibetan Buddhism) - Bulletproof Monk
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Judaism
- Rabbi Avram Belinski (Gene Wilder) - The Frisco Kid
- Rabbi Hyman Krustofski (voiced by Jackie Mason) - The Simpsons TV series
- Rabbi Emanuel Rabinovich - creation of Eustace Mullins, anti-semite.
- Rabbi David Small - novel Friday the Rabbi Slept Late and its sequels by Harry Kemelman
- Rabbi Tuckman (Mel Brooks) - parody of Friar Tuck, Robin Hood: Men in Tights
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Fictional Religions
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Yevonism (from Final Fantasy X)
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Maesters
Maesters are considered equivalent of bishops.
- Maester Seymour Guado
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Summoners
Summoners are a cross between miko and priestesses; they fall into the ranks of Summoner and High Summoner.
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The Church of Aram (from The Elder Gods)
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Andari
Andari are considered the equivalent of bishops.
- Andari Estarg
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Heria
Heria are Aramite priests.
- Jalkan
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Bajoran Religion from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
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Other/Unclassified
- Reverend Behemial Far Traveller (aka Rev Bem), Wayist - Andromeda
- Bheid, Awes Priest - The Redemption of Althalus
- Meria Book, Shepard - Firefly
- Dhalsim, Hindu ascetic - Street Fighter video game series
- Elosha, Colonial Priestess - Battlestar Galactica
- V. Rev. Lieutenant Theo Fobius - Schlock Mercenary
- Wilbur Mercer, founder of Mercerism - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- Nakoruru, Ainu religion priestess - Samurai Shodown
- Nightwolf, Native American Church shaman - Mortal Kombat video game series
- Rimururu, Ainu religion priestess - Samurai Shodown
- Reverend Wayne, Asherah cult priest - Snow Crash
- Zadoc, High Priest of The Internet Oracle
- Zagato, High Priest of the Pillar religion - Magic Knight Rayearth
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