In theCatholic Church,Servant of God is the style used for a person who has been posthumously declared "heroic in virtue" during the investigation and process leading tocanonisation as asaint.[1]
The term is used in the first of the four steps in the canonization process. The next step is being declaredVenerable, upon a decree of heroism ormartyrdom by the honored. That is followed bybeatification, with the title ofBlessed. After the confirmation of miracles resulting from the intercession of the honored, the final step iscanonization, where the honored would receive the title ofSaint.
The following is an incomplete list of people currently declared to be aServant of God. The list is in alphabetical order by Christian name but, if necessary, by surname or the place or attribute part of the name.
| Servant of God | Year of death | Year declaredServant of God | Notes / References |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adrienne von Speyr | 1967 | 2018 | Swiss theologian and physician |
| Alcide De Gasperi | 1954 | 1993 | Prime Minister of Italy |
| Afonso Sanches, Lord of Albuquerque | 1329 | 1723 | Portuguese noble |
| Ángel Herrera Oria | 1968 | 1996 | Spanish cardinal |
| Angela Iacobellis | 1961 | 1991 | |
| Antoni Gaudí | 1926 | 2000 | |
| Anita Moreno | 1977 | 2018 | Panamanian laywoman[2] |
| Akash Bashir | 2015 | 2022 | Pakistani security guard and martyr |
| Antony Thachuparambil | 1963 | 2009 | |
| Baudouin of Belgium | 1993 | 2024 | King of the Belgians |
| Barbora Žagarietė | 1648 | 2015 | |
| Bartolomé de las Casas | 1566 | 2002 | Spanish priest |
| Bastiampillai Anthonipillai Thomas | 1964 | 2006 | founder of the Rosarians Order |
| Pope Benedict XIII | 1730 | 1755 | |
| Bernardin Gantin | 2008 | 2025 | Dean of the College of Cardinals |
| Black Elk | 1950 | 2017 | [3] Catechist |
| Blandina Segale | 1941 | 2015 | |
| Simon Bruté | 1839 | 2005 | First Bishop of Vincennes, Indiana and spiritual director to St. Elizabeth Ann Seton |
| Buenaventura Codina y Augerolas | 1857 | 1978 | Spanish bishop |
| Carlo Braga | 1971 | 2013 | Italian Missionary |
| Giuseppe Castagnetti | 1965 | 2009 | Roman Catholic politician |
| Catherine Doherty | 1985 | 2000 | Russian writer and founder of the Madonna House Apostolate |
| Carmen Hernández | 2016 | 2021 | Spanish catechist and co-initiator of theNeocatechumenal Way. |
| Cecilia Rosa de Jesús Talangpaz | 1731 | 1999 | |
| Charles Journet | 1975 | Swiss theologian and cardinal | |
| Chiara Corbella Petrillo | 2012 | 2018 | |
| Cícero Romão Batista | 1934 | 2022 | Professed priest |
| Clare Crockett | 2016 | 2024 | Irish religious sister and former actress |
| Dalisay Lazaga | 1971 | 2012 | |
| Darwin Ramos | 2012 | 2019 | Street child,Duchenne muscular dystrophy |
| Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin | 1840 | 2005 | Russian aristocrat, founder ofLoretto, Pennsylvania |
| Dionisia de Santa María Mitas Talangpaz | 1732 | 1999 | Filipino nun |
| Domingos Chohachi Nakamura | 1940 | 2002 | Japanese priest and missionary |
| Dorothy Day | 1980 | 2000 | American social activist |
| Edward J. Flanagan | 1948 | 2012 | Founder ofBoys Town |
| Eileen Rosaline O'Connor | 1921 | 2018 | Co-founder of the Society of Our Lady's Nurses for the Poor |
| Elena of Montenegro, Queen of Italy | 1952 | 2001 | |
| Elisabeth Leseur | 1914 | 1934 | French mystic |
| Élisabeth of France | 1794 | 1953 | martyred duringFrench Revolution |
| Eliswa Vakayil | 1831 | 2008 | Indian nun |
| Emil Kapaun | 1951 | 1993 | U.S. Army Chaplain during theKorean War |
| Emilia Anne Wojtyła | 1929 | 2020 | mother ofPope John Paul II[4] |
| Emiliano Tardif | 1999 | 2010 | |
| Eugenio Borg | 1967 | 1997 | First Superior General of theSociety of Christian Doctrine (M.U.S.E.U.M.) |
| Euzebiusz Huchracki | 1942 | 2003 | martyred inSchloss Hartheim[5] |
| Ezechiele Ramin | 1985 | 2017 | Italian missionary priest martyred in Brazil |
| Ferdinando Casagrande | 1944 | 1998 | martyred inMarzabotto |
| Fidelis Thaliath | 2008 | 2021 | Indian nun |
| Floripes Dornellas de Jesus | 1999 | 2005 | Brazilian mystic |
| Francis II of the Two Sicilies | 1894 | 2020 | King of the Two Sicilies |
| Francis Xavier Ford | 1952 | Bishop of Kaying | |
| Francisco Rodrigues da Cruz | 1948 | 1951 | Portuguese priest |
| François-Marie-Benjamin Richard | 1908 | Archbishop of Paris | |
| Frank Duff | 1980 | 1996 | Founder of the Legion of Mary |
| Geevarghese Ivanios | 1953 | 2007 | Archbishop of Trivandrum |
| George Vakayil | 1931 | 2013 | Indian priest[6][7] |
| Giancarlo Rastelli | 1970 | 2005 | Cardiac Surgeon |
| Gerard Raymond | 1932 | 1968 | French-Canadian seminarian |
| Gordon Anthony Pantin | 2000 | 2013 | Archbishop of Port of Spain[8] |
| Helena Kmieć | 2017 | 2024 | Polish missionary[9] |
| Xu Guangqi | 1633 | 1933 (redeclared 2011) | Ming-era politician |
| Hans Urs von Balthasar | 1988 | 2018 | Swiss theologian and priest |
| Hélder Pessoa Câmara | 1999 | 2015 | Archbishop ofOlinda e Recife and cofounder of theEpiscopal Conference of Brazil |
| Henry II the Pious | 1241 | 2015 | Polish monarch |
| Henryk Szuman | 1939 | 2003 | martyred inBydgoszcz[10] |
| Ida Mari | 1981 | ||
| Isaac Hecker | 1888 | 2008 | Founder of the Paulist Fathers |
| Isabella I of Castile | 1504 | 1974 | Queen of Castille and Leon |
| Jacques Hamel | 2016 | 2017 | French Catholic priest, killed inan attack, qualified as amartyr byChristians includingPope Francis. |
| James II of England | 1701 | 1734 | Jacobite claimant to the throne of England |
| Johann Baptist Reus | 1985 | 1994 | German priest |
| John Pozzobon | 1947 | 1953 | Brazilian Permanentdeacon |
| John Hardon | 2000 | 2002 | American priest |
| John Peter Savarinayagam | 1979 | 2019 | Capuchin Priest |
| Józef Cyrek | 1940 | 1994 | Polish writer |
| Jules Chevalier | 1907 | 2012 | Professed priest and founder of theMissionaries of the Sacred Heart and theDOLSH Congregation |
| Julius Nyerere | 1999 | 2005 | First President of Tanzania |
| Karol Józef Wojtyła Sr. | 1941 | 2020 | father ofPope John Paul II[4] |
| Léo Tarcísio Gonçalves Pereira | 2007 | 2020 | BrazilianDehonian priest |
| Luciano Mendes de Almeida | 2006 | 2014 | Bishop ofMariana |
| Luigi Giussani | 2005 | 2012 | Founder of Communion and Liberation |
| Luis Chávez | 1987 | 2001 | predecessor to Oscar Romero |
| Luis Cáncer | 1549 | 2015 | [11] Spanish missionary |
| Luisa Piccarreta | 1947 | 2006 | |
| Madeleine Delbrêl | 1964 | 2018 | |
| Maria Clotilde of Savoy | 1911 | 1942 | |
| Marcel Van | 1959 | 1997 | |
| Maria Esperanza de Bianchini | 2004 | 2010 | |
| Marie Gertrude Gros | 1905 | 2012 | |
| Marta Obregón Rodríguez | 1969 | 2011 | Martyred for defending herchastity[12] |
| Mathew Kavukattu | 1969 | 1994 | Archbishop of Changanassery |
| Mathew Makil | 1914 | 2009 | |
| Áron Márton | 1980 | 1998 | Bishop ofAlba Iulia; declaredRighteous Among the Nations byYad Vashem in 1999. |
| Matilde Salem | 1961 | 1961 | Syrian laywoman |
| Matteo Ricci | 1610 | 1984 (redeclared 2010) | |
| Maurice Michael Otunga | 2003 | 2010 | The first cardinal of Kenya |
| Michelle Duppong | 2015 | 2022 | FOCUS Missionary[13] |
| Moises Crespo Gonzalez | 1980 | 2015 | Panamanian Augustinian Priest[14] |
| Leonia Nastał | 1940 | 2016 | Polish nun[15] |
| Patrick Ryan | 1878 | 2016 | |
| Pedro Arrupe | 1991 | 2018 | Spanish Basque Jesuit priest and first responder to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima |
| Piotr Szarek | 1939 | 1994 | martyred during Occupation of Poland |
| Pope Pius VII | 1823 | 2007 | |
| Prosper Guéranger | 1875 | 2005 | |
| Rafael Merry del Val | 1930 | 1953 | Spanish cardinal |
| Raymond FC Mascarenhas | 1960 | 2008 | |
| Reynolds Purackal | 1988 | 2010 | |
| Romano Guardini | 1968 | 2017 | Italian priest and philosopher |
| Rubén Isidro Alonso | 1992 | 2014 | Uruguayan Streetwise Priest |
| Stefano Gobbi | 2011 | 2024 | Priest and Founder of theMarian Movement of Priests |
| Stephen Kim Sou-hwan | 2009 | 2024 | Archbishop of Seoul |
| Sybil Kathigasu | 1948 | 2024 | Malayan nurse |
| Salvo D'Acquisto | 1943 | 2001 | Italian policeman. |
| Santa Scorese | 1991 | 1998 | Martyred for defending her chastity[16] |
| Sepé Tiaraju | 1756 | 2017 | Guarani Leader[17] |
| Shahbaz Bhatti | 2011 | 2016 | Pakistani politician |
| Stanisław Wiórek | 1939 | 1994 | Martyred during the German Occupation of Poland |
| Terence Cooke | 1983 | 1992 | Archbishop ofNew York andCardinal |
| Theodore Foley | 1974 | 2008 | Superior general of the Passionists. |
| Thea Bowman | 1990 | 1990 | nun |
| Therese Neumann | 1962 | 2005 | German mystic |
| Thomas Cooray | 1988 | 2011 | Sri Lankan cardinal |
| Toni Zweifel | 1989 | 2018 | Swiss engineer and founder of the Limmat Foundation |
| Trương Bửu Diệp | 1946 | 2014 | Vietnamese priest |
| Ubaldo Marchioni | 1944 | 1998 | Martyred inMarzabotto |
| Vincent R. Capodanno | 1967 | 2006 | AUnited States Navy Chaplain who was killed in the line of duty |
| Vital Maria Gonçalves de Oliveira | 1878 | 1994 | Bishop ofOlinda |
| Vivian Uchechi Ogu | 1995 | 2009 | Martyred for defending herchastity[18] |
| Walter Ciszek | 1984 | 1990 | Polish-American priest and missionary |
| Willi Graf | 1943 | 2017 | member of the German Resistance |
| William Finnemann | 1942 | 1999 | |
| Zilda Arns Neumann | 2010 | 2015 | Brazilian physician and philanthropist |
| Zita of Bourbon-Parma | 1989 | 2009 | Last Empress Consort of Austria |
