page_title: List of former Catholics
section_title: Islam
hierarchical_section_title: List of former Catholics / Individuals who converted to other churches, denominations and faiths / Islam
caption_attribution_description: Diana Haddad
context_page_description: Former Catholics or ex-Catholics are people who used to be Catholic for some time, but no longer identify as such. This includes both individuals who were at least nominally raised in the Roman Catholic faith, and individuals who converted to it in later life, both of whom later rejected and left it, or converted to other faiths. This page lists well-known individuals in history who are former Catholics.
  One 2008 Pew Research Center study estimates that 10.1% of people in the United States describe themselves as former Catholics in some sense, in total the study reports that 44% of Americans profess a different religious affiliation than the one they were raised in. A majority converted to another religion while a substantial minority are counted as currently unaffiliated.
  Note: The list includes those who leave the Catholic Church including any Eastern Catholic Church which is in communion with it.
context_section_description: Keith Ellison, first Muslim to serve in the United States Congress
  Everlast, Irish-American rapper and guitar player
  René Guénon, French philosopher
  Diana Haddad, singer raised in the Maronite Church
  Murad Wilfred Hofmann, diplomat
  Ingrid Mattson, president of the Islamic Society of North America. (She abandoned Catholicism years before her conversion to Islam)
  Matthew Saad Muhammad, boxer
  Peter Murphy, lead singer of Bauhaus
  Sinéad O'Connor, ordained as a priest in the Irish Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church by Michael Cox in 1999; gave up the priesthood when she converted to Islam in 2018, becoming Shuhada' Davitt
  Vinnie Paz, also known as Ikon the Verbal Hologram; American rapper for the underground hip hop group Jedi Mind Tricks
  Franck Ribéry, French footballer, converted in 2006 to marry his Muslim girlfriend
  Abel Xavier, Portuguese footballer, grew up in a strict Catholic background in Portuguese Mozambique
caption: Diana Haddad.
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