Deletion of List of former Roman Catholic priests

Comment: easily passes  as an index of articles grouped by a shared, verifiable and highly significant biographical fact.  is accordingly unhelpful and irrelevant here, and the fact that the nominator thinks that a category should be created based on the same grouping undermines their complaint that it's somehow inappropriate as a list. The nomination is contra  ("totally replaceable by a category") and  (the claim is that it's presently "unreferenced", not that it is ''unverifiable'' by any stretch), and the nominator should be reminded to follow , including by reviewing all relevant guidelines before nominating anything for deletion
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (WP:LISTPURP||WP:NLIST||WP:NOTDUP||WP:NOTCLEANUP||WP:BEFORE)