List of venerated Brazilian Catholics


This page is a list of Brazilian saints, blesseds, venerables, and Servants of God, as recognized by the Catholic Church. These people were born, died, or ministered in Brazil.
The Catholic Church has been present in the territory of the modern nation of Brazil since the first Mass was said there in 1500 and today claims the largest population of Catholics of any country in the world. Nonetheless, the country has produced few officially canonized saints thus far.

Saints

The following is the list of saints, in the order in which they were canonized.

Blesseds

Venerables

  • Louise-Josephine Voiron, Professed Religious of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Chambéry
  • * Declared "Venerable": February 18, 1989
  • Maria Conchita Farani, Professed Religious of the Passionist Sisters of Saint Paul of the Cross
  • * Declared "Venerable": June 13, 1992
  • Rudolf Komorek, Professed Priest of the Salesians of Don Bosco
  • * Declared "Venerable": April 6, 1995
  • Attilio Giordani, Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Milan; Member of the Salesian Cooperators
  • * Declared "Venerable": October 9, 2013
  • Noeme Cinque, Professed Religious of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ
  • * Declared "Venerable": January 27, 2014
  • Maria Dulce Rodrigues dos Santos, Founder of the Little Missionary Sisters of Mary Immaculate
  • * Declared "Venerable": April 3, 2014
  • Antônio Ferreira Viçoso, Professed Priest of the Congregation of the Mission ; Bishop of Mariana
  • * Declared "Venerable": July 8, 2014
  • Pelagio Sauter, Professed Priest of the Redemptorists
  • * Declared "Venerable": November 7, 2014
  • Giuseppe Marchetti, Professed Priest of the Scalabrinians; Cofounder of the Missionaries of Saint Charles Borromeo
  • * Declared "Venerable": July 8, 2016
  • Felice Rossini, Professed Priest of the Franciscan Capuchins
  • * Declared "Venerable": March 23, 2017
  • Pio Giannotti, Professed Priest of the Franciscan Capuchins
  • * Declared "Venerable": April 6, 2019
  • Nelson Santana, Child Layperson of the Diocese of Sao Carlos
  • * Declared "Venerable": April 6, 2019
  • Hermínio Pinzetta, Professed Religious of the Franciscan Capuchins
  • * Declared "Venerable": May 13, 2019
  • Dinah Amorim, Professed Religious of the Daughters of Mary - Escolapias
  • * Declared "Venerable": December 11, 2019
  • Carmen Catarina Bueno, Professed Religious of the Discalced Carmelite Nuns
  • * Declared "Venerable": January 23, 2020
  • Roberto Giovanni, Professed Religious of the Stigmatines
  • * Declared "Venerable": October 27, 2020
  • Albino Alves da Cunha Silva, Professed Priest of the Diocese of Catanduva
  • * Declared "Venerable": February 20, 2021
  • Odette Vidal Cardoso, Child Laywoman of the Archdiocese of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro
  • * Declared "Venerable": November 25, 2021
  • Maria da Conceição Santos, Professed Religious of the Sisters Helpers of Our Lady of Mercy
  • * Declared "Venerable": February 18, 2022
  • Clemente Recalcati, Professed Priest of the Franciscan Capuchins; Founder of the Missionary Capuchin Sisters of Saint Francis of Assisi
  • * Declared "Venerable": May 21, 2022
  • Vítor Coelho de Almeida, Professed Priest of the Redemptorists
  • * Declared "Venerable": August 5, 2022
  • Franz de Castro Holzwarth, Layperson of the Diocese of São José dos Campos; Offering of life
  • * Declared "Venerable": December 17, 2022
  • Aloísio Sebastião Boeing, Professed Priest of the Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus ; Founder of the Marian Fraternity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
  • * Declared "Venerable": February 23, 2023
  • Maria Luiza Rezende Marques, Professed Religious of the Discalced Carmelite Nuns
  • * Declared "Venerable": May 20, 2023
  • Guido Vidal França Schäffer, Seminarian of the Archdiocese of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro
  • * Declared "Venerable": May 20, 2023
  • Antônio de Almeida Lustosa, Professed Priest of the Salesians of Don Bosco; Archbishop of Fortaleza
  • * Declared "Venerable": June 22, 2023
  • Alberto Beretta, Professed Religious of Capuchin
  • * Declared "Venerable": December 14, 2023
  • Libério Rodrigues Moreira, Professed Priest of the Diocese of Divinópolis
  • * Declared "Venerable": March 14, 2024
  • Vicenta Guilarte Alonso, Professed Religious of the Daughters of Jesus
  • * Declared "Venerable": June 20, 2024
  • José Antônio de Maria Ibiapina, Professed Priest of the Diocese of Guarabira
  • * Declared "Venerable": March 28, 2025
  • Nazareno Lanciotti, Professed Priest of the Vicariate o Rome; Fidei Donum Missionary in the Diocese of São Luiz de Cáceres; Member of the Marian Movement for Priests; Martyr
  • * Declared "Venerable": April 14, 2025
  • John Pozzobon, Married Permanent Deacon of the Diocese of Santa Maria; Member of the Schonstatt Movement
  • * Declared "Venerable": June 20, 2025
  • Angelo Angioni, Professed Monsegnior of the Diocese of São José do Rio Preto
  • * Declared "Venerable": October 24, 2025
  • Maria de Lourdes Guarda, Laywoman of the Diocese of Jundiaí
  • * Declared "Venerable": November 21, 2025
  • Maria Giselda Villela, Professed Religious of the Discalced Carmelite Nuns
  • * Declared "Venerable": January 22, 2026

Servants of God

  • Pero Dias and 11 companions, Religious Professed Jesuits ; Martyrs
  • Francisco da Costa Pinto, Professed Missionary Priest of the Diocese of Tianguá; Martyr
  • Vitória Nabo Correia Bixarxe, Professed Religious of the Poor Clare Nuns; Mystic
  • Sepe Tiaraju, Layperson of the Diocese of Bagé; Martyr
  • Antonio Gonçalves de Oliveira, Professed Priest of the Franciscan Capuchins; Archbishop of Olinda-Recife
  • João Maria Cavalcanti de Brito, Professed Priest of the Archdiocese of Natal
  • Jerônimo de Castro Abreu Magalhães, Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Sao Sebastiao do Rio de Janeiro
  • Bento Dias Pacheco, Professed Priest of the Diocese of Jundiai
  • Zelia Pedreira Abreu Magalhaes, Widow; Professed Religious of the Servants of the Blessed Sacrament
  • Domingos Evangelista Pinheiro, Professed Monsegnior of the Archdiocese of Belo Horizonte; Founder of the Sisters Helpers of Our Lady of Pieta
  • Antônio da Rocha Marmo, Child Layperson of the Archdiocese of São Paulo
  • José Silvério Horta, Professed Priest of the Archdiocese of Mariana
  • Cícero Romão Batista, Professed Priest of the Archdiocese of Fortaleza
  • Domingos Chohachi Nakamura, Professed Priest of the Diocese of Presidente Prudente
  • Ignacio Martínez Madrid, Professed Monsegnior of the Augustinian Recollects; Apostolic Administrator of Labrea
  • Ambrósia Ana Sabatovycz, Professed Religious of the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate
  • Giuseppe Calvi, Professed Priest of the Oblates of Saint Joseph
  • Julius Aemilius de Lombaerde, Professed Priest of the Missionaries of the Holy Family; Founder of the Missionaries of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, the Daughters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and the Sisters of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament
  • Luiz Gonzaga do Monte, Professed Priest of the Archdiocese of Natal
  • Marciano Bernardes da Fonseca, Professed Monsegnior of the Archdiocese of Juiz de Fora
  • Johann Baptist Reus, Professed Priest of the Jesuits
  • Antonia Martins de Macedo, Founder of the Franciscan Sisters of the Heart of Mary
  • Anatólia Tecla Bodnar, Professed Religious of the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate
  • Francisco Expedito Lopes, Bishop of Diocese of Garanhuns; Martyr
  • Inocêncio López Santamaría, Professed Priest of the Mercedarians; Bishop of Sao Raimundo Nonato
  • Honorina de Abreu, Professed Carmelite Religious
  • Humbertus Linden Jr., Professed Priest of the Franciscan Friars Minor
  • Lafayette da Costa Coelho, Professed Canon of the Diocese of Guanhães
  • João dal Monte, Professed Priest of the Franciscan Capuchins; Bishop of Guaxupé
  • Pedro Luís Maria Galibert, Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of São Luiz de Cáceres
  • Francisca Benicia Oliveira, Professed Religious of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul
  • Alberto Fuger, Professed Priest of the Diocese of Oliveira
  • Petrus Canisius van Herkhuizen, Professed Priest of the Assumptionists
  • Antonio Machi, Professed Priest of the Franciscan Capuchins
  • Maria Joanna Laselva, Professed Religious of the Order of the Immaculate Conception
  • Rudolf Lunkenbein, Professed Priest of the Salesians of Don Bosco; Martyr
  • Simão Cristino Koge Kudugodu, Layperson of the Diocese of Barra do Garças; Martyr
  • Lucia Eleonora Schiavinato, Consecrated laywoman; Missionary; Founder of the Secular Institute "Piccoli Rifugi"
  • Amalia Aguirre Queija, Professed Religious of Missionary Sisters of Jesus Crucified; Marian Seer
  • Alderigi Maria Torriani, Professed Monsegnior of the Archdiocese of Pouso Alegre
  • Maria Milito, Founder of the Missionary Sisters of Saint Anthony Mary Claret
  • Gabriel Paulino Bueno Couto, Professed Priest of the Carmelites of the Ancient Observance; Bishop of Jundiaí
  • Eliseu Maria Coroli, Professed Priest of the Barnabites; Bishop of Guamá; Founder of the Missionaries of Saint Therese
  • Othon Motta, Bishop of Campanha
  • Joaquim Arnóbio de Andrade, Professed Monsegnior of the Diocese of Sobral
  • Adelaide Molinari, Professed Religious of the Daughters of Divine Charity
  • Cleusa Carolina Rody Coelho, Professed Religious of the Augustinian Recollect Missionary Sisters; Martyr
  • Ezechiele Ramin, Professed Priest of the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus; Martyr
  • Alain Marie du Noday, Professed Priest of the Dominicans; Bishop of Porto Nacional
  • João Benvegnú, Professed Monsegnior of the Dioces of Passo Fundo
  • Luso de Barros Matos, Professed Priest of the Diocese of Porto Nacional
  • Antônio Sinibaldi, Professed Priest Franciscan; Offering of life
  • Maria de Lourdes Benedicta Nogueira Fontão, Married Laywoman of the Diocese of Sao Joao da Boa Vista
  • Antônio Campelo de Aragão, Professed Priest of the Salesians of Don Bosco; Bishop of Petrolina
  • José Carlos Parra Pires, Professed Priest of the Diocese of Umuarama
  • José Gumercindo Santos, Professed Priest and Founder of the Society of "Joseleitos" of Christ; Founder of the Congregation of Saint Therese and the Congregation of the Divine Master
  • Rosita Paiva, Cofounder of the Josephite Institute
  • Tomas Vaquero, Bishop of São João da Boa Vista
  • Angelo Possidio Caru, Professed Priest of the Discalced Augustinians
  • Angelo Frosi, Professed Priest of the Xaverian Missionaries; Bishop of the Abaetetuba
  • Michelangelo Pigotti, Professed Religious of the Franciscan Capuchins
  • José Antônio do Couto, Professed Religious of the Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus ; Bishop of Taubaté
  • Floripes Dornellas de Jesus, Laywoman of the Archdiocese of Mariana; Mystic
  • Hélder Pessoa Câmara, Archbishop of Olinda-Recife
  • Luigia Calliari, Laywoman of the Diocese of Osasco; Consecrated Member of the Focolare Movement
  • Waldir Lopes de Castro, Professed Monsegnior of the Diocese of Sobral
  • Gilberto Maria Delfina, Professed Priest and Founder of Fraternity Jesus the Savior
  • Luciano Pedro Mendes de Almeida, Professed Priest of the Jesuits; Archbishop of Mariana
  • Léo Tarcísio Gonçalves Pereira, Professed Priest of the Sacred Heart of Jesus ; Founder of the "Bethânia" Community
  • Marcelo Henrique Câmara, Layperson of the Personal Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei
  • Pedro Balzi, Professed Priest of the Diocese of Bergamo; Member of the Missionary Community of Paradiso; Fidei Donum missionary in the Archdiocese of Teresina
  • Zilda Arns Neumann, Married Laywoman of the Archdiocese of Curitiba; Founder of the Pastoral Care for Children
  • André Bortolameotti, Professed Priest of the Congregation of Jesus the Priest
  • Luís Cecchin, Professed Priest of the Diocese of Nazaré
  • Cesare Sarafini, Professed Priest of the Franciscan Capuchins
  • Maria da Luz Teixeira de Carvalho, Professed Religious of Christian Instruction; Marian Seer
  • Paolino Maria Baldassari, Professed Priest of the Servites
  • Nemésio Bernardi, Professed Priest of the Capuchins