Several American Catholics have been considered for sainthood over the past 50 years. Catholics continue to contribute to American religious life. Most of these Americans were born after 1850, though the majority of those who have been canonized so far were not.
Isaac Jogues (1607–1646), René Goupil (1608–1642), and Jean de Lalande (d. 1646), Professed Priests and Religious of the Jesuits; among the North American Martyrs (France – Canada – U.S.)
Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton (1774–1821), Widow; Founder of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul in the United States, the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill, the Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul of Halifax, the Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul of New York, the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth of New Jersey (New York, U.S. – Rome, Italy – Maryland, U.S.)
John Nepomuk Neumann (John Nepomucene) (1811–1860), professed Priest of the Redemptorists; Archbishop of Philadelphia; Founder of the Sisters of Saint Francis of Philadelphia (Prachatice, Czech Republic – Pennsylvania, U.S.)
Rose-Philippine Duchesne (1769–1852), Professed Religious of the Society of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Isère, France – Missouri, U.S.)
Anne-Thérèse Guérin (Mother Théodore) (1798–1856), Founder of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (Côtes-d'Armor, France – Indiana, U.S.)
Jozef De Veuster (Father Damien) (1840–1889), Professed Priest of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (Picpus Fathers) (Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium – Molokai, Hawaii, later part of U.S.)
Anjëzë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa) (1910–1997), Founder of the Missionaries of Charity (Skopje, Macedonia – West Bengal, India; honorary U.S. citizen)
Maria Franziska Schervier (1819–1876), Founder of the Poor Sisters of Saint Francis and the Franciscan Sisters of the Poor (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany – Ohio, USA – North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
Josep Tristany Pujol (Lluc of Saint Joseph) (1872–1936) and Ricardo Farré Masip (Eduardo of the Child Jesus) (1897–1936), Professed Priests of the Discalced Carmelites (Lleida, Spain – Tucson, Arizona – Barcelona, Spain)[1]
James Alfred Miller (Leo William) [Santiago] (1944–1982), Professed Religious of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (De La Salle Brothers); Martyr (Wisconsin, USA – Huehuetenango, Guatemala)
Cornelia Peacock Connelly (1809–1879), Founder of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus (Pennsylvania, USA – England, United Kingdom)
Declared Venerable: June 13, 1992
Samuel Charles Mazzuchelli (1806–1864), Professed Priest of the Dominicans; Founder of the Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary of Sinsinawa (Milan, Italy – Wisconsin, USA)
Declared Venerable: July 6, 1993
Józefina Dudzik (Mary Therese) (1860–1918), Founder of the Franciscan Sisters of Chicago (Sępólno, Poland – Illinois, USA)
Declared Venerable: March 26, 1994
Pierre Toussaint (1766–1853), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of New York (Artibonite, Haiti – New York, USA)
Declared Venerable: December 17, 1996
Henriette DeLille (1813–1862), Founder of the Sisters of the Holy Family of New Orleans (Louisiana, USA)
Declared Venerable: March 27, 2010
Kasimira Kaupas (Maria) (1880–1940), Founder of the Sisters of Saint Casimir (Panevėžys, Lithuania – Illinois, USA)
Declared Venerable: July 1, 2010
Nelson Baker (1842–1936), Priest of the Diocese of Buffalo (New York, USA)
Declared Venerable: January 14, 2011
Félix Varela Morales (1788–1853), Priest of the Archdiocese of San Cristóbal de La Habana (Havana, Cuba – Florida, USA)
Bridget Teresa McCrory (Mary Angeline Teresa) (1893–1984), Founder of the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm (Northern Ireland, United Kingdom – New York, USA)
Declared Venerable: June 28, 2012
Fulton John Sheen (1895–1979), Bishop of Rochester; Titular Archbishop of Newport (Illinois, USA – New York, USA)
Declared Venerable: June 28, 2012
Celestina Bottego (1895–1980), Founder of the Xaverian Missionary Sisters, Society of Mary (Ohio, USA – Parma, Italy)
Declared Venerable: October 31, 2013
Rafael Cordero Molina (1790–1868), Layperson of the Archdiocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
Declared Venerable: December 9, 2013
Aloysius Schwartz (1930–1992), Priest of the Archdiocese of Manila; Founder of the Sisters of Mary of Banneux and the Brothers of Christ (Washington D.C., USA – Manila, Philippines)
Declared Venerable: January 22, 2015
William Gagnon (1905–1972), Professed Religious of the Hospitaller Brothers of Saint John of God (New Hampshire, USA – Saigon, Vietnam)
Declared Venerable: December 14, 2015
Alphonse Gallegos (1931–1991), Professed Religious of the Augustinian Recollects; Titular Bishop of Sasabe; Auxiliary Bishop of Sacramento (New Mexico, USA – California, USA)
Declared Venerable: July 8, 2016
Teresa Fardella di Blasi (1867–1957), Widow; Founder of the Poor Daughters of the Crowned Virgin (New York, USA – Trapani, Italy)
Declared Venerable: November 8, 2017
Patrick Peyton (1909–1992), Professed Priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross (Mayo, Ireland- Manila, Philippines – California, USA)
Declared Venerable: December 18, 2017
Norbert McAuliffe (1886–1959), Professed Religious of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart (New York, USA – Gulu, Uganda)
Declared Venerable: May 19, 2018
Antonietta Giugliano (1909–1960), Cofounder of the Little Servants of Christ the King (New York, USA – Naples, Italy)
Declared Venerable: December 21, 2018
María Consuelo Sanjurjo Santos (María Soledad) (1892–1973), Professed Religious of the Servants of Mary, Ministers of the Sick (Arecibo, Puerto Rico – San Juan, Puerto Rico)
Declared Venerable: January 15, 2019
Augustin Arnaud Pagès (Nymphas Victorin) (1885–1966), Professed Religious of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (De La Salle Brothers) (Haute-Loire, France – San Juan, Puerto Rico)
Declared Venerable: April 6, 2019
Augustus Tolton (1854–1897), Priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago (Missouri, USA – Illinois, USA)
Declared Venerable: June 11, 2019
Mario Hiriart Pulido (1931–1964), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Santiago de Chile; Member of the Secular Institute of the Schöenstatt Brothers of Mary (Santiago, Chile – Wisconsin, USA)
Declared Venerable: February 21, 2020
Eusebio Francesco Chini (1645–1711), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Trent, Italy – Arizona, USA – Sonora, Mexico)
Declared Venerable: July 10, 2020
Mary Elizabeth Lange (ca. 1794–1882), Founder of the Oblate Sisters of Providence (Santiago de Cuba, Cuba – Maryland, USA)[2][3]
Declared Venerable: June 22, 2023
Rose Hawthorne (Mary Alphonsa) (1851–1926), Founder of the Dominican Sisters of Saint Rose of Lima (Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne) (Massachusetts, USA – New York, USA)[4][5][6]
Luis de Cáncer (ca. 1500–1549), Antonio Cuipa (d. 1704) and 84 companion martyrs of the "La Florida" Missions (d. 1549–1706), Professed Priests and Religious of the Dominicans, Jesuits, and the Franciscan Friars Minor; Laypeople from the Dioceses of Pensacola-Tallahassee, Orlando, Venice, and Saint Augustine; Martyrs (Florida, USA)[7][8][9]
Giuseppe Rosati (1789–1843), Priest of the Congregation of the Missions (Vincentians); Bishop of Fort Louis (Frosinone, Italy – Missouri, USA – Rome, Italy)
Juliette Noel Toussaint (ca. 1786 – 1851), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of New York (Haiti – New York, USA)
Isidore Quémerais (1847–1873), Priest of the Diocese of Shreveport (Ille-et-Vilaine, France)
Jean Pierre (1831–1873), Priest of the Diocese of Shreveport (Côtes-dʼArmor, France)
Jean-Marie Bilier (1839–1873), Priest of the Diocese of Shreveport (Côtes-dʼArmor, France)
Louis-Marie Gergaud (1832–1873), Priest of the Diocese of Shreveport (Loire-Atlantique, France)
François Le Vézouët (1833–1873), Priest of the Diocese of Shreveport (Côtes-dʼArmor, France)
Patrick Ryan (1845–1878), Priest of the Diocese of Knoxville (Tipperary, Ireland – Tennessee, USA)[16][17]
Isaac Thomas Hecker (1819–1888), Priest and Founder of the Missionary Society of Saint Paul the Apostle (Paulist Fathers) (New York, USA)[18]
Joan Adelaide O'Sullivan (María Adelaida of Saint Teresa) (1817–1893), Professed Religious of the Discalced Carmelite Nuns (New York, USA – León, Spain)[19]
Julia Greeley (ca. 1833–48 – 1918), Layperson of the Diocese of Denver (Missouri, USA – Colorado, USA)[27][28][29]
Thomas Frederick Price (1860–1919), Priest of the Diocese of Raleigh; Cofounder of the Maryknoll Missionary Society (North Carolina, USA – Hong Kong, China)[30]
John Eckert (Stephen of Dublin) (1869–1923), Professed Priest of the Franciscan Capuchins (Ontario, Canada – Wisconsin, USA)[33]
John O'Neill (Columba) (1848–1923), Professed Religious of the Congregation of Holy Cross (Pennsylvania – Indiana, United States)[34]
Jan Cieplak (1857–1926), Apostolic Administrator of Mohilev; Archbishop of Vilnius (Śląskie, Poland – New Jersey, USA)[35]
Theresia Ijsseldijk (Theresia of the Holy Trinity) (1897–1926), Professed Religious of the Carmelite Sisters of the Divine Heart of Jesus (Gelderland, Netherlands – Missouri, USA)
Maria Grazia Bellotti LaPercha (1882–1927), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Newark (Potenza, Italy – New Jersey, USA)[36]
Federico Salvador Ramón (1867–1931), Priest of the Diocese of Almería; Founder of the Servants of the Immaculate Child Mary (Almería, Spain – California, USA)
Ira Barnes Dutton (Joseph) (1843–1931), Layperson of the Diocese of Honolulu; Member of the Secular Franciscans (Vermont, USA – Hawaii, USA)[37][38][39]
James Anthony Walsh (1891–1936), Priest and Cofounder of the Maryknoll Missionary Society; Titular Bishop of Seine-Assuan (Massachusetts, USA – New York, USA)[40]
Ángel Baraibar Moreno (1891–1936), Priest of the Archdiocese of Toledo; Martyr (San Juan, Puerto Rico – Toledo, Spain)
Anna Marie Lindenberg (Theresa of Jesus) (1887–1939), Professed Religious of the Carmelite Nuns of the Ancient Observance (Münster, Germany – Pennsylvania, USA)[41]
Lewis Thomas Wattson (Paul James) (1863–1940), Founder and Professed Priest of the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement (Maryland, USA – New York, USA)[42][43]
Rosa Maria Segale (Blandina) (1850–1941), Professed Religious of the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati (Genoa, Italy – Ohio, USA)[47][48]
Joseph Verbis Lafleur (1912–1944), Priest of the Military Ordinariate of the United States (Louisiana, USA – Zamboanga de Norte, Philippines)[49][50]
Edward Joseph Flanagan (1886–1948), Priest of the Archdiocese of Omaha (Roscommon, Ireland – Nebraska, USA – Berlin, Germany)[51][52][53]
Rhoda Greer Wise (1888–1948), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Youngstown (Ohio, USA)[54][55]
Nicholas Black Elk (1863–1950), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Rapid City, SD (Wyoming, USA – South Dakota, USA)[56][57][58]
James Maginn (1911–1950), Priest of the Missionary Society of Saint Columban; Martyr (Montana, USA – Gangwon, South Korea)
Patrick Brennan (1901–1950), Priest of the Missionary Society of Saint Columban; Vicar Apostolic of Kwangju; Martyr (Illinois, USA – Daejeon, South Korea)
Teresa Kearney (Mary Kevin) (1875–1957), Founder of the Little Sisters of Saint Francis and the Franciscan Missionary Sisters for Africa (Wicklow, Ireland – Jinja, Uganda – Massachusetts, USA)[69][70]
Luigi Sturzo (1871-1959), Priest of the Diocese of Caltagirone (Caltagirone, Italy – London, England - New York, USA - Rome, Italy)[71]
Vincent Robert Capodanno (1929–1967), Priest of the Maryknoll Missionary Society; Priest of the Military Ordinariate of the United States (New York, USA – Quàng Nam, Vietnam)[75][76][77]
Jean Martin Eyraud (1880–1968), Priest of the Archdiocese of New Orleans (Haute Alpes, France – Louisiana, USA)
Giancarlo Rastelli (1933–1970), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Parma (Pescara, Italy – Minnesota, USA)
William Evans (1919–1971), Professed Priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross (Massachusetts, USA – Dhaka, Bangladesh)
Ernő Tindira (1892–1972), Priest of the Diocese of Mukacheve of the Latins; Martyr (Pennsylvania, USA – Mukacheve, Ukraine)
Daniel Foley (Theodore of Mary Immaculate) (1913–1974), Professed Priest of the Passionists (Massachusetts, USA – Rome, Italy)[78][79]
Michael Jerome Cypher (Casimir) (1941–1975), Professed Priest of Franciscan Conventuals; Martyr (Wisconsin, USA – Olancho, Honduras)[80]
Paul Michael Murphy (1939–1976), Layperson of the Diocese of Phoenix; Consecrated Member of the Miles Jesu (Illinois, USA – Arizona, USA)[81][82]
Auguste [Nonco] Pelafigue (1888–1977), Layperson of the Diocese of Lafayette; Member of the Apostleship of Prayer League (Haute-Pyrénées, France – Louisiana, USA)[83][84]
George Willmann (1920–1977), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (New York, USA – Manila, Philippines)[85][86][87]
Dorothy Day (1897–1980), Layperson of the Archdiocese of New York; Founder of the Catholic Worker Movement (New York, USA)[88][89][90]
Juan Luis Ellacuria Echevarría (Aloysius) (1905–1981), Professed Priest of the Claretians (Vizcaya, Spain – California, USA)[91][92][93]
William Slattery (1895–1982), Priest of the Congregation of the Mission (Vincentians) (Maryland, USA – Pennsylvania, USA)
Vincent Joseph McCauley (1906–1982), Professed Priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross; Archbishop of Fort Portal (Iowa USA – Minnesota, USA – Kampala, Uganda)[94]
José Luis Múzquiz de Miguel [Joseph Múzquiz] (1912–1983), Priest of the Personal Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei (Badajoz, Spain – Massachusetts, USA)[95][96]
Walter Ciszek (1904–1984), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Pennsylvania, USA – New York, USA)[99][100][101]
John Maronic (1922–1985), Professed Priest of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate; Founder of the Victorious Missionaries (Minnesota, USA – Illinois, USA)[102]
Gabriel Wilhelmus Manek (1913–1989), Professed Priest of the Society of the Divine Word; Archbishop of Endeh; Founder of the Daughters of Our Lady Queen of the Holy Rosary (Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia – Colorado, USA)[103]
Thea Bowman (1937–1990), Professed Religious of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration (Mississippi, USA)[104][105][106]
María Belen Guzmán Florit (Dominga) (1897–1993), Founder of the Dominican Sisters of Fatima (San Juan, Puerto Rico – Ponce, Puerto Rico)[107]
John Joseph McKniff (1907–1994), Professed Priest of the Augustinians (Pennsylvania, USA – Florida, USA – Piura, Peru)[108]
Rossella Petrellese (1972–1994), Layperson of the Diocese of Acerra (Naples, Italy – Minnesota, USA)[109]
Angelo Frosi (1924-1995), Professed Priest, Xaverian Missionaries, Bishop of Abaetetuba (Cremona, Italy - Holliston, Massachusetts, USA - Brazil) [110]
Gabriel Gonsum Ganaka (1937–1999), Archbishop of Jos (Plateau, Nigeria – New York, USA)
Matthias DeWitte Ward (Martin Maria de Porres) (1918–1999), Professed Priest of the Conventual Franciscans (Massachusetts, USA – Minas Gerais, Brazil)[111]
Ida Peterfy (1922–2000), Founder of the Society Devoted to the Sacred Heart (Košice, Slovakia – California, USA)[112][113]
Gertrude Agnes Barber (1911–2000), Layperson of the Diocese of Erie (Pennsylvania, USA)[114][115][116][117]
Leonard LaRue (Marinus) (1914–2001), Professed Religious of the Benedictines (Ottilien Congregatian) (Pennsylvania – New Jersey, USA)[120][121]
Gwen Cecilia Billings Conicker (1939–2002), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Steubenville; Cofounder of the Apostolate for Family Consecration (Illinois, USA – Ohio, USA)[122][123]
Joseph Henry Cappel (1908–2004), Priest of the Maryknoll Missionary Society (Kentucky, USA – Talca, Chile)[124][125]
Fernando Rielo Pardal (1923–2004), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Madrid; Founder of the Idente Missionaries of Christ the Redeemer (Madrid, Spain – New York, USA)[128]
Joseph Walijewski (1914–2006), Priest of the Diocese of La Crosse (Michigan, USA – Lima, Peru)[129][130]
William Edward [Bill] Atkinson (1946–2006), Professed Priest of the Augustinians (Pennsylvania, USA)[131][132][133]
Irving Charles Houle (Francis) (1925–2009), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Marquette (Michigan, USA)[134][135][136]
Michelle Christine Duppong (1984–2015), Layperson of the Diocese of Bismarck; Member of the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (Colorado – North Dakota, USA)[137][138]
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