List of Christian Preachers - Catholic

Catholic

  • Ignatius of Antioch (35–107) (also Eastern Orthodox Church)
  • Polycarp (69–155) (also the Eastern Orthodox Church)
  • John Chrysostom (347–407) (also Eastern Orthodox Church)
  • Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153)
  • Henry of Lausanne d. 1148, heretical, opposed by Bernard
  • John Bromyard (died c. 1352)
  • Johannes Tauler (1300–1361), German (Dominican) mystic
  • Jan Huss (1369–1415) (condemned and executed as a heretic)
  • Bernardino of Siena (1380–1444), Franciscan
  • Giovanni da Capistrano (1386–1456), Franciscan
  • James of the Marches (1391–1476), Franciscan
  • Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498), Dominican, also executed as a heretic
  • Petrus Canisius (1521–1597), Jesuit preacher of the Counter-Reformation in the German-speaking lands
  • Hortensio Félix Paravicino, Trinitarian brother, preacher to the court Philip II of Spain, and poet
  • Jacques-Benigne Bossuet (1627–1704), whose sermons are classics of French prose
  • Louis Bourdaloue (1632–1704) Jesuit preacher of the age of Louis XIV
  • Jean Baptiste Massillon (1663–1742), Oratorian
  • John Henry Newman (1801–1890), converted from Anglicanism
  • Bernard Vaughan SJ (1847–1922)
  • Charles Coughlin (1891–1975)
  • Bishop Fulton Sheen (1895–1975)
  • Pope John Paul II, (1920–2005)

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