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List of post-Reformation Catholic saints in the United Kingdom

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The Catholic Church recognises certain deceased Catholics as saints, beati, venerabili, and servants of God. In the post-Reformation period, some such people have been born, died, or lived in the United Kingdom.

Saints

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    St. John Henry Newman
  • John Henry Newman (1801–1890), Priest of the Oratorians (Birmingham Congregation); Cardinal (London – West Midlands, England)

Blesseds

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    Bl. Dominic Barberi
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    Bl. Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi
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    Bl. Carlo Acutis
  • Dominic Barberi (Dominic of the Mother of God) (1792–1849), Professed Priest of the Passionists (Viterbo, Italy – Berkshire, England)
    • Declared "Venerable": 16 May 1937
    • Beatified: 27 October 1963 by Pope Paul VI
  • Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi (Cyprian) (1903–1964), Professed Priest of the Trappists (Anambra, Nigeria – Leicestershire, England)
  • Carlo Acutis (1991–2006), Child of the Archdiocese of Milan (London, England – Milan, Italy)

Venerables

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    Ven. May Potter
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    Ven. Cornelia Connelly
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    Ven. Mary Ward
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    Ven. Mary Angeline McCrory
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    Ven. Mary Jane Wilson
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    Ven. Veronica Leeves
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    Ven. Elizabeth Prout
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    Ven. Ignatius Spencer
  • Margaret Sinclair (Mary Francis of the Five Wounds) (1900–1925), Professed Religious of the Poor Clare Colettine Nuns (Edinburgh, Scotland – Essex, England)
    • Declared "Venerable": 6 February 1978
  • Mary Potter (1847–1913), Founder of the Little Company of Mary (London, England – Rome, Italy)
    • Declared "Venerable": 8 February 1988
  • Cornelia Connelly (1809–1879), Founder of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – East Sussex, England)
    • Declared "Venerable": 13 June 1992
  • Joan Ward (Mary) (1585–1645), Founder of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Loreto Sisters) and Congregatio Iesu (Yorkshire, England)
    • Declared "Venerable": 19 December 2009
  • Bridget Teresa McCrory (Mary Angeline Teresa) (1893–1984), Founder of the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm (Tyrone, Northern Ireland – New York, United States)
    • Declared "Venerable": 28 June 2012
  • Mary Jane Wilson (Maria of Saint Francis) (1840–1916), Founder of the Franciscan Sisters of Our Lady of Victory (Karnataka, India – Madeira, Portugal)
    • Declared "Venerable": 9 October 2013
  • Frances Margaret Taylor (Mary Magdalen of the Sacred Heart) (1832–1900), Founder of the Poor Servants of the Mother of God (Lincolnshire – London, England)
    • Declared "Venerable": 12 June 2014
  • Sophia Leeves (Marie–Veronique of the Passion) (1823–1906), Professed Religious of the Discalced Carmelite Nuns; Founder of the Apostolic Carmel (Istanbul, Türkiye – Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France)
    • Declared "Venerable": 8 July 2014
  • Elizabeth Prout (Mary Joseph of Jesus) (1820–1864), Founder of the Sisters of the Cross and Passion (Shropshire – Merseyside, England)
    • Declared "Venerable": 21 January 2021
  • George Spencer (Ignatius of Saint Paul) (1799–1864), Professed Priest of the Passionists (London, England – South Lanarkshire, Scotland)
    • Declared "Venerable": 20 February 2021
  • Florence Kate Flanagan (Maria Caterina) (1892–1941), Professed Religious of the Bridgettine Sisters (London, England – Stockholm, Sweden)[3]
    • Declared "Venerable": 23 March 2023
  • Madaleina Catherine Beauchamp Hambrough (Maria Riccarda) (1887–1966), Professed Religious of the Bridgettine Sisters (London, England – Rome, Italy)[3]
    • Declared "Venerable": 27 January 2025

Servants of God

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    King James II (VII) of England
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    Mo. Margaret Mary Hallahan
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    Caroline Jones Chisholm
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    Adèle-Euphrasie Barbier
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    Teresa Helena Higginson
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    Mo. Janet Erskine Stuart
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    John Bradburne
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    Jeremy Joyner White
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    Leonard Cheshire
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    Andrew Bertie
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    Clare Crockett
  • James II (VII) Stuart (1633–1701), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Westminster; King of England, Scotland and Ireland (London, England – Paris, France)[4][5]
  • Henriette Le Forestier d'Osseville (1803–1858), Founder of the Congregation of Our Lady of Fidelity (Seine-Maritime, France – London, England)
  • Margaret Hallahan (1802–1868), Founder of the Dominican Sisters of the English Congregation of Saint Catherine of Siena (London – Staffordshire, England)
  • Caroline Jones Chisholm (1808-1877), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Canberra-Gourlburn (London – Northamptonshire, England)[6]
  • Adèle Euphrasie Barbier (1829–1893), Founder of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions (Calvados, France – Kent, England)
  • Teresa Helena Higginson (1844–1905), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Liverpool (Flintshire, Wales – Devonshire, England)
  • Mary Janet Erskine Stuart (1857–1914), Professed Religious of the Society of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Rutland – London, England)
  • Antonio Mansi (1896–1918), Professed Religious of the Franciscan Conventuals (London, England – Rome, Italy)[7]
  • Marie-Adèle Garnier (Marie of Saint Peter) (1838–1924), Founder of the Benedictine Adorers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Montmartre (Tyburn Nuns) and the Benedictines of the Sacred Heart of Montmartre (Côte-d'Or, France – London, England)[8]
  • Artur Schulz (1897–1945), Priest of the Archdiocese of Warmia; Martyr (London, England – Bisztynek, Poland)
  • Sybil Kathigasu (1899–1948), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Penang (North Sumatra, Indonesia – South Lanarkshire, Scotland)[9]
  • Clara Rose Perrins (Mary of the Blessed Sacrament) (1875–1949), Founder of the Carmelite Sisters of "Corpus Christi" (Staffordshire, England – Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago)
  • John Bradburne (1921–1979), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Harare; Member of the Secular Franciscans (Cumbria, England – Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe)[10]
  • Jeremy Joyner White (1938–1990), Layperson of the Personal Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei (Hampshire, England – Lagos, Nigeria)
  • Leonard Cheshire (1917–1992), Married Layperson of the Diocese of East Anglia (Cheshire – Suffolk, England)[11]
  • Julius Kambarage Nyerere (1922–1999), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Musoma; President of Tanzania (Mara, Tanzania – London, England)
  • Andrew Bertie (1929–2008), Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (London, England – Rome, Italy)
  • Clare Crockett (rel. name: Clare Maria of the Trinity and the Heart of Mary) (1982–2016), Professed Religious of the Servant Sisters of the Home of the Mother (Derry, Northern Ireland – Playa Prieta, Ecuador)
  • Ignacio Echeverría (1978–2017), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Madrid (A Coruña, Spain – London, England)[12]

Candidates for Sainthood

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This list includes individuals for whom there is a public petition to the bishop to commence an investigation into the heroic virtue of the individual leading to a decree declaring them to be a Servant of God.

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    Margaret More Roper
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    Luisa Carvajal Mendoza
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    Fr. Andrew White
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    Mo. Margaret Mostyn
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    Mo. Clare Joseph Dickinson
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    Augustus Pugin
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    John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury
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    Louisa Elizabeth Rolls Vaughan
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    Cecil Chetwynd-Talbot
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    Bp. John Bede Polding
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    Lady Georgiana Fullerton
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    Margaret Radclyffe Livingstone Eyre
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    Fr. Julian Tenison–Woods
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    Sis. Mary Rose Columba Adams
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    Cardinal Henry Manning
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    Sis. Frances Raphael Drane
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    Mo. Ignatius Hayes
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    Charlotte Montagu Douglas Scott
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    Sis. Mary Irene FitzGibbon
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    Fr. Duncan McNab
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    Cardinal Herbert Vaughan
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    Fr. Thomas Byles
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    Agnes McLaren
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    Mons. Robert Hugh Benson
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    Abbot John Chapman
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    Fr. Bede Jarrett
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    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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    Fr. Vincent McNabb
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    Mons. John Hawes
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    Christopher Dawson
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    John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
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    Malcolm Muggeridge
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    Sean Devereux
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    Fr. Bede Griffiths
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    Fr. Ryan Stawaisz
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    Sir David Amess
  • William Roper (c. 1496–1578) and Margaret More Roper (1505–1544), Married Laypersons of the Archdiocese of Westminster (London, England)
  • Luisa Carvajal Mendoza (1566–1614), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Westminster (Cáceres, Spain – London, England)
  • Andrew White (1579–1656), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (London, England)[13]
  • Margaret Mostyn (rel. name: Margaret of Jesus) (1625–1679), Professed Religious of the Discalced Carmelite Nuns (Flintshire, Wales – Antwerp, Belgium)
  • Alexander Cameron (1701–1746), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Lochaber, Scotland – Kent, England)[14]
  • Frances Dickinson (rel. name: Clare Joseph of the Heart of Jesus) (1755–1830), Professed Religious of the Discalced Carmelite Nuns (London, England – Maryland, United States)
  • Augustus Pugin (1812–1852), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Southwark (London – Ramsgate, England)
  • John Talbot, 16th Earl of Shrewsbury (1791–1852), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Shrewsbury (Worcestershire – Shropshire, England)
  • Louisa Elizabeth Rolls Vaughan (1810–1853), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Cardiff (London – Herefordshire, England)[15]
  • Cecil Chetwynd-Talbot (1808–1877), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh (Staffordshire, England – Rome, Italy)
  • John Bede Polding (1794–1877), Professed Priest of the Benedictines (English Congregation); Archbishop of Sydney; Founder of the Sisters of the Good Samaritan (Liverpool, England – Sydney, Australia)[16]
  • Alice Mary Thorpe (Catherine Mary Antoninus) (1844–1879), Founder of the Dominican Sisters of Our Lady of the Rosary (now the Dominican Sisters of Sparkill) (Norfolk, England – New York, United States)
  • Georgiana Fullerton née Leveson-Gower (1812–1885), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Westminster; Member of the Secular Franciscans (Staffordshire – Dorset, England)
  • Margaret Radclyffe Livingstone Eyre (1800–1889), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Westminster (London, England)
  • Julian Tenison-Woods (1832-1889), Priest of the Archdiocese of Sydney; Cofounder of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart (London, England - Sydney, Australia)
  • Alice Ingham (rel. name: Mary Francis) (1830–1890), Founder of the Franciscan Missionaries of Saint Joseph (Greater Manchester – Lancashire, England)
  • Sophia Charlotte Adams (rel. name: Mary Rose Columba) (1832–1891), Professed Religious of the Dominican Sisters of Stone (Gloucestershire, England – North Adelaide, Australia)
  • Honoria Conway (rel. name: Mary Vincent) (1815–1892), Founder of the Sisters of Charity of Saint John (now the Sisters of Charity of the Immaculate Conception) (Kent, England – Massachusetts, United States)
  • Henry Edward Manning (1808–1892), Archbishop of Westminster; Cardinal; Member of the Secular Franciscans (Hertfordshire – London, England)
  • Augusta Theodosia Drane (rel. name: Frances Raphael) (1823–1894), Professed Religious of the Dominican Sisters of the English Congregation of Saint Catherine of Siena (East London – Staffordshire, England)
  • Elizabeth Hayes (rel. name: Mary Ignatius of Jesus) (1823–1894), Founder of the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception (Isle of Guernsey – Rome, Italy)
  • Charlotte Montagu Douglas Scott (1811–1895), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh (Wiltshire – Buckinghamshire, England)
  • Catherine Rosamund Fitzgibbon (rel. name: Mary Irene) (1823–1896), Professed Religious of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul of New York (London, England – New York, United States)
  • Duncan McNab (1820–1896), Priest of the Archdiocese of Melbourne (Argyllshire, Scotland – Victoria, Australia)
  • Charles O'Neill (1828–1900), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Sydney; Cofounder of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (Glasgow, Scotland – Sydney, Australia)[17][18]
  • Herbert Vaughan (1832–1903), Archbishop of Westminster; Cardinal; Founder of St. Joseph's Foreign Mission Society of Mill Hill (Mill Hill Missionaries) (Gloucestershire – Barnet, England)
  • Thomas Byles (1870–1912), Priest of the Diocese of Brentwood (Yorkshire, England – aboard RMS Titanic, North Atlantic Ocean)[19]
  • Agnes McLaren (1837–1913), Layperson of the Archdiocese of St. Andrews and Edinburgh (Edinburgh, Scotland – Alpes-Maritimes, France)
  • Robert Hugh Benson (1871–1914), Priest of the Archdiocese of Westminster (Berkshire – Greater Manchester, England)[20]
  • Honoria Gaffney (Mary Evangelista) (1853–1920), Professed Religious of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Peace (Roscommon, Ireland – East Midlands, England)
  • John Chapman (1865–1933), Professed Priest of the Benedictines (English Congregation) (Suffolk – Somerset, England)
  • Cyril Jarrett (rel. name: Bede) (1881–1934), Professed Priest of the Dominicans (London, England)
  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Northampton (London – Buckinghamshire, England)[21][22]
  • Robert John Cairns (1884–1941), Priest of the Maryknoll Missionary Society; Martyr (Glasgow, Scotland – Guangdong, China)[23]
  • Edward Charles [Ted] Harris (1905–1942), Professed Priest of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart; Martyr (London, England – East New Britain, Papua New Guinea)[24]
  • Vincent McNabb (1868–1943), Professed Priest of the Dominicans (Portaferry, Northern Ireland – London, United Kingdom)[25]
  • Caryll Houselander (1901–1954), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Birmingham (Somerset – Warwickshire, England)[26][27]
  • John Hawes (1876–1956), Priest of the Diocese of Geraldton and the Archdiocese of Nassau (Richmond, England – Florida, United States)[28]
  • Gerald Vann (1906–1963), Professed Priest of the Dominicans (South East London – Newcastle upon Tyne, England)
  • Olive-Marie Bradley (rel. name: Marguerite) (1911–1964), Professed Religious of the Ursuline Sisters of Hasselt; Martyr (Wirral, England – Bas-Uele, Democratic Republic of Congo)[29]
  • Margaret Walker (rel. name: Mary Charles Magdalene) (1881–1966), Founder of the Handmaids of the Holy Child Jesus (Sussex, England – Calabar, Nigeria)[30]
  • Peter Biewer (rel. name: Aelred) (1932–1969), Brother of the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers); Martyr (Yorkshire, England – Nyamagana, Tanzania)[31]
  • Christopher Dawson (1889–1970), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Plymouth (Devon, England)
  • John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Birmingham (Free State, South Africa – Dorset, England)[32]
  • Martin Thomas (1932–1977), Professed Priest of the Jesuits; Martyr (London, England – Harare, Zimbabwe)[33]
  • Pauline Wilkinson (rel. name: Mary Joseph) (1917–1977), Professed Religious of the Dominican Missionary Sisters; Martyr (Greater Manchester, England – Harare, Zimbabwe)[33]
  • Desmond Donovan (1927–1978), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (West Yorkshire, England – Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe)[33]
  • Bernard Darke (1925–1979), Professed Priest of the Jesuits; Martyr (Dorset, England – Georgetown, Guyana)[34][35]
  • John Francis McGrath (1919–1980), Priest of the Mill Hill Missionaries; Martyr (Birmingham, England – Mbale, Uganda)[36]
  • Douglas William Main (rel. name: John) (1926–1982), Professed Priest of the Benedictines (Olivetan Congregation) (London, England – Québec, Canada)
  • Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990) and Kathleen Dobbs Muggeridge (1903–1994), Married Laypersons of the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton (East Sussex, England)
  • Sean Devereux (1964–1993), Layperson of the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton; Member of the Salesian Cooperators; Martyr (Surrey, England – Jubbada Hoose, Somalia)[37]
  • Alan Richard Griffiths (rel. name: Swami Dayananda [Bede]) (1906–1993), Professed Priest of the Benedictines (Camaldolese Congregation) (Surrey, England – Tamil Nadu, India)[38]
  • Christopher Mannion (1951–1994), Professed Religious of the Marist Brothers of the Schools; Martyr (North Yorkshire, England – Gisagara, Rwanda)[39]
  • Basil Hume (1923–1999), Archbishop of Westminster; Cardinal (Tyne and Wear – London, England)[40]
  • Eileen Egan (1912–2000), Layperson of the Archdiocese of New York (Wales – New York, United States)[41]
  • Leader Dominic Stirling (1906–2003), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Dar-es-Salaam (Essex, England – Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)
  • Mary Sunniva Garson (1921–2007), Founder of the Sisters of Our Lady of Grace and Compassion (Aberdeenshire, Scotland – Sussex, England)[42]
  • Tommy Burns (1956–2008), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Paisley (Glasgow, Scotland)[43][44]
  • Brian Hilary Thorp (1931–2008), Brother of the Mill Hill Missionaries; Martyr (Derbyshire, England – Lamu, Kenya)[45]
  • Joseph Wilson (1994–2011), Young Layperson of the Diocese of Motherwell (Cardin, Scotland)[46]
  • Peter Geach (1916–2013) and Gertrude E. M. Anscombe Geach (1919–2001), Married Laypersons of the Diocese of East Anglia (Cambridge, England)
  • Edward Daly (1933–2016), Bishop of Derry (Donegal, Ireland – Derry, Northern Ireland)
  • Michelle Frieda Totah (rel. name: Mary David) (1957–2017), Professed Religious of the Benedictine Nuns (Philadelphia, United States – Isle of Wight, England)
  • Pedro Ballester Arenas (1996–2018), Young Layperson of the Personal Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei (Manchester, England)[47]
  • Peter Joseph Reilly (1915–2018), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Galloway (Ayrshire, Scotland)
  • Paul McAuley (1947–2019), Professed Religious of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (De La Salle Brothers); Martyr (Hampshire, England – Loreto, Peru)[48]
  • Michael Strode (1923–2019), Oblate of the Trappists (Surrey, England – Cardiff, Wales)[49]
  • Audrey Donnithorne (1922–2020), Layperson of the Diocese of Hong Kong (China)
  • Ryan Stawaisz (1989–2021), Priest of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston (Aberdeen, Scotland – Texas, United States)[50]
  • David Amess (1952–2021), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Brentwood (London – Essex, England)[51]
  • Janet Longton Tempest (1930–2021), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Leeds (Buenos Aires, Argentina – Yorkshire, England)[52]
  • Indi Gregory (‭† 2023), Child of the Diocese of Nottingham (Nottingham, England)[53][54]

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