List of fictional priests - Definition and Overview

Clergy have generally represented a popular outlet for pop culture, although this has tapered in recent years. Some of the more popular clergy featured in works of fiction are listed below.

Christian clergy

Catholic

Priests

• Father Ralph de Bricassart - The Thorn Birds
• Father Brown - created by G. K. Chesterton
• Father Ted Crilly - Father Ted TV series
• Father Frank Dowling - Father Dowling Mysteries TV series
• Father Jack Hackett - Father Ted TV series
• Father Damien Karras - The Exorcist
• Father Dougal McGuire - Father Ted TV series
• Father Lankester Merrin - The Exorcist
• Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner) - The X-Men
• Father John Patrick Francis Mulcahy - M*A*S*H (TV series)
• Father Chuck O'Mally - Going My Way and The Bells of Saint Mary's
• Father Philip Prestwick - Father Dowling Mysteries TV series
• Father Guido Sarducci - Vatican gossip columnist played by comedian Don Novello on Saturday Night Live and other TV shows and movies
• Don Camillo Tarocci - Giovanni Guareschi's tales.

Reverends

• Reverend Mike Weber - Soul Man TV Series

Nuns

• Sister Barbara Bennett - Change of Habit
• Sister Mary Clarence - Sister Act and Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
• Sister Laura Donnelly - Love is a Many Splendored Thing
• Sister Euphemia - Nuns on the Run
• Sister Mary of the Sacred Heart - Nuns on the Run
• Sister Mary of the Annunciation - Nuns on the Run
• Sister Michelle Gallagher - Change of Habit
• Sister Irene Hawkins - Change of Habit
• Sister Inviolata - Nuns on the Run
• Sister Stephanie "Steve" Oskowski - Father Dowling Mysteries TV series
• Sister Mary Stigmata (a.k.a. "The Penguin") - The Blues Brothers
• Sister Thornly - Time Squad

Nuns from The Flying Nun

• Sister Ana
• Sister Bertrille (Elsie Ethrington)
• Sister Jacqueline
• Reverend Mother Superior Plaseato
• Sister Sixto
• Sister Theresa

Friars

• "Friar Fuck" - Sex and the City
• Friar Tuck - Robin Hood Prince of Thieves

Monks

• Adso of Melk (Franciscan)- The Name of the Rose novel & movie
• Brother Brace - RuneScape
• Brother Cadfael (Benedictine) - mystery novels by Edith Pargeter
• William of Baskerville (Franciscan) - The Name of the Rose novel & movie

Bishops

• Bishop Len Brennan - Father Ted TV series

Popes

• Pope Kiril I - The Shoes of the Fisherman, played by Anthony Quinn in the movie based on that novel
• Pope John Calvin - The Golden Compass
• Pope Urban X - Candide
• The Space Pope (Crocodylus pontifex) - Futurama

Protestant

Reverends

• Reverend Timothy Lovejoy - The Simpsons (Protestant)
• Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale - The Scarlet Letter

Religious media figures

The sort generally appearing on radio and television (a real world equivalent would be Bishop Fulton J. Sheen)

• Alvis - Sealab 2021
• Rev. Aaron Gilstrom (played by Ozzy Osbourne) - Trick or Treat (1986)
• Billy Kosch - The Muller-Fokker Effect
• Marvin - Good Omens
• Wilbur Mercer - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Jewish clergy

Rabbis

• 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
• Baruch Rogers: Space Rabbi

Other/Unclassified

• Shepherd Book - Firefly

See also

• Archive of fictional things
• Bishop
• Cantor
• Friar
• Monk
• Nun
• Priest
• Rabbi
• List of rabbis
• Rebbe