# 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 Germanian I (Martin Luther) - The Alteration (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 who was 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 [zh]
* Lin Lu-ho - leader of New Spiritual Society, a cult residing in Penghu, The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon
* Priest - Nameless ally who reverses transformations in Pizza Tower. Has a pizza printed on his biretta, but his exorcist counterpart uses a crucifix, suggesting he may be Christian.
* Rhea (Seiros) - Archbishop of the Church of Seiros, and later revealed to be the holy figure Seiros, in the game Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Also appears in the spin-off Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes.