List of fictional clergy and religious figures

Christianity

Catholic Church

Monks and friars

• Frère Jacques
• The Monk – The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
• Friar Tuck – Robin Hood
• Ambrosio – The Monk
• William of Baskerville – The Name of the Rose
• Brother Cadfael – protagonist of historical mystery novels by Ellis Peters

Nuns

• The Second Nun – The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
• Sister Fidelma – protagonist of historical mystery novels by Peter Tremayne
• Ciel – Character from Tsukihime and the Melty Blood series
• Sister Jeanne – from The Devils
• Sister Bertrille – from The Flying Nun
• Sister Boniface – from Sister Boniface Mysteries
• Sister Andrea – Evil (TV series)
• Sister Assumpta – Father Ted
• Sister Simone – from Mrs. Davis
• Sister Michael – from Derry Girls
• Maggie Grace – from ''Daredevil''

Priests

• Claude Frollo – The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
• * Claude Frollo – from the Disney adaptation
• Father John Brown – created by G. K. Chesterton
• Father Ted Crilly – Father Ted
• Father Dámaso – Noli Me Tángere
• Mr. Eko – Lost
• Betheal Gavarre (Belial) – Priest manhwa
• Father Dougal McGuire – Father Ted TV series
• Father John Mulcahy – M*A*S*H TV series and film
• Father Burke – The Conjuring franchise
• Father Gordon – The Conjuring franchise
• The Nun's Priest – The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
• The Pardoner – The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
• The Parson – The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
• Don Abbondio – The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
• Father Guido Sarducci – Vatican gossip columnist played by comedian Don Novello on Saturday Night Live and other TV shows and films
• Don Camillo Tarocci – Giovannino Guareschi's tales
• Nicholas D. Wolfwood – Trigun
• Enrico Pucci – a chaplain at the Green Dolphin Street Prison aspiring to achieve Heaven for all mankind, friend of DIO, main antagonist of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean
• Kirei Kotomine – main antagonist of Fate/Stay Night, Fate/Zero and Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works, also has minor appearances in Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya, Fate/Stay Night: Heaven's Feel and Fate/Grand Order
• Risei Kotomine – Kirei Kotomine's father, Fate/Zero
• John Ward – The main protagonist of Faith: The Unholy Trinity
• Father Garcia- Another protagonist of Faith: The Unholy Trinity
• Father David Acosta – Evil
• Father Jacob Myers – Apparitions
• Padre Manuel Vergara – 30 Coins
• Father Peter – Derry Girls
• The "Hot" Priest – Fleabag
• Damien Karras – A main character from The Exorcist
• Father Paul Lantom – Daredevil
• Father Salcedo – Lord, Give Me Patience
• Father Brian Kilkenney Finn – Keeping the Faith
• Father McKenzie - ''Eleanor Rigby''

Bishops

• Bishop René d'Herblay of Vannes – the D'Artagnan Romances novels of Alexandre Dumas, père
• Bishop Len Brennan – Father Ted TV show

Popes

• Pope Andreas – legendary figure
• Pope Joan – 9th-century legendary figure
• Pope Urban X – Candide
• Pope Hadrian VII – Hadrian the Seventh
• Pope John XXIV – Lord of the World
• Pope Sylvester III – Lord of the World
• Pope Kiril I – The Shoes of the Fisherman
• Pope Sixtus VII – "Good News from the Vatican"
• Pope Urban IX – Urban the Ninth
• Pope Marx I – Marx the First
• Pope Peter II – Peter the Second
• Pope Germanian I – The Alteration
• Pope Hadrian VII – The Alteration
• Pope John XXIV – The Alteration
• Pope Francis I – The Vicar of Christ
• Pope Gregory XVII – Earthly Powers
• Pope Gregory XVII – The Clowns of God
• Pope Leo XIV – Saving Grace
• Pope John XXIX – "The Last Word"
• Pope Leo XIV – Lazarus
• Pope John Paul I (Cardinal Lamberto) – The Godfather Part III
• Pope David I – The Pope Must Die
• Pope Pius XX – 3001: The Final Odyssey
• Pope Genevieve G. Rota – Lexx
• Pope Peter II – The Accidental Pope
• Pope Oswald Leopold II – Battle Pope
• Pope Peter II – The Third Secret
• Pope Pius XIII – Oblivion
• Pope Innocent XIV – Conclave and Conclave
• Pope Marcellus IX – Through Darkest Europe
• Pope Pius XIII – The Young Pope and The New Pope
• Pope Francis II – The New Pope
• Pope John Paul III – ''The New Pope''

Saints

• Saint Grobian – a fictional patron saint of vulgar and coarse people in various late Medieval satirical works
• Saint Xynoris – A fictional Saint accidentally created through mistranslation

Other

• Dean Jocelin – Dean of the cathedral in William Golding's The Spire.

Eastern Orthodox Church

Monks

• Father Zosima – The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Nuns

• Sister Pelagia – Pelagia and the White Bulldog and sequels by Boris Akunin

Saints

• Saint Javelin – A fictional Ukrainian saint who was used as a propaganda symbol in the Russo-Ukrainian War

Anglican/Episcopal churches

Priests

• William Collins – Pride and Prejudice, novel by Jane Austen; also several film and TV adaptations
• Leonard Clement – The Murder at the Vicarage, novel by Agatha Christie
• Theodore Venables – The Nine Tailors, novel by Dorothy L. Sayers
• Reverend Doctor Christopher Syn – Doctor Syn series of novels by Russell Thorndike
• Josiah Crawley – Chronicles of Barsetshire series of novels by Anthony Trollope
• Theophilus Grantly – Chronicles of Barsetshire series of novels by Anthony Trollope
• Dr Vesey Stanhope – Chronicles of Barsetshire series of novels by Anthony Trollope
• Mark Robarts – Chronicles of Barsetshire series of novels by Anthony Trollope
• Father Gabriel Stokes – The Walking Dead
• Ashley Thomas – Emmerdale
• Harriet Finch – Emmerdale
• Charles Anderson – Emmerdale
• Billy Mayhew – Coronation Street
• Adam Smallbone – Rev.
• Father Jack – Six Feet Under
• Sidney Chambers – Grantchester
• Daniel Webster – The Book of Daniel
• Canon John Tallis – works of Madeleine L'Engle
• Geraldine Granger — The Vicar of Dibley
• Alf Bloxby / Jez Bloxby – Agatha Raisin (TV series)
• Reverend Green - Cluedo
• Ernest Trelaw - Timewyrm: Revelation
• Annie Trelaw - ''Happy Endings''

Bishops

• Bishop Proudie of Barchester – Chronicles of Barsetshire series of novels by Anthony Trollope
• The Bishop of Tatchester - ''The Box of Delights''

Mormonism

Fundamentalist leaders

• Bill Henrickson – Big Love
• Roman Grant – ''Big Love''

Baptists

• Jesse Custer – Preacher, comic created by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
• Chaplain Captain Albert T. Tappman – Catch-22, novel by Joseph Heller

Methodists

• Father Mapple – Moby-Dick
• Brother Justin Crow – an aspiring radio preacher in Carnivàle
• Norman Balthus – Brother Justin's guardian and mentor in ''Carnivàle''

Other Protestants

• Derrial Book, Shepherd – Firefly
• Caleb – Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Eric Camden – 7th Heaven
• Ivan Isaacs – Priest
• Reverend Timothy Lovejoy – The Simpsons
• Reverend Harry Powell – The Night of the Hunter
• William Stryker – Marvel Comics
• Reverend Nathaniel Cole – Congregationalist minister in Hell on Wheels
• Ruth Cole – Congregationalist preacher in Hell on Wheels
• Joseph Black Moon – Congregationalist preacher in Hell on Wheels
• Reverend Orville Swanson – Congregationalist minister in Red Dead Redemption 2
• Reverend I. M. Jolly - Church of Scotland minister in ''Scotch and Wry''

Unspecified Christian

• Prester John – Christian priest-king of medieval legend

Shinto

Miko

• X characters#Arashi Kishū|Arashi Kishū] – X
• Ayako Matsuzaki – Ghost Hunt
• Chikane Himemiya and Himeko Kurusugawa – Kannazuki no Miko
• Kagome Higurashi, Kikyo, and Kaede – Inuyasha
• Kagami Hiiragi and Tsukasa Hiiragi – Lucky Star
• Kaho Mizuki – Cardcaptor Sakura
• Machi Amayadori – Kuma Miko: Girl Meets Bear
• Mitsuha Miyamizu – Your Name
• Momiji – Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive
• Nozomi Tojo – Love Live! School Idol Project
• Koyori – Samurai Aces
• Pocky – Pocky & Rocky
• Sailor Mars – Sailor Moon
• Sakura Miko – Hololive
• Rika Furude – Higurashi: When They Cry
• Ruka Urushibara – Steins;Gate
• Reimu Hakurei and Sanae Kochiya – Touhou Project
• Sakura - Urusei Yatsura
• Sangonomiya Kokomi – Genshin Impact
• Saya Kisaragi – Blood-C
• Togashi – Sengoku Blade
• Princess Tomoyo – Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle
• Yae Miko – Genshin Impact
• Yae Sakura – Honkai Impact 3rd
• Utahime Iori – ''Jujutsu Kaisen''

Buddhism

Mahayana

Monks

• Kwai Chang Caine – Kung Fu
• Hoichi the Earless – Japanese folklore
• Liu Kang – Mortal Kombat
• Kung Lao – ''Mortal Kombat''

Hinduism

Sadhu

Shamanism

Ainu religion

• Nakoruru and Rimururu – ''Samurai Shodown''

North American shamanism

• Nightwolf – ''Mortal Kombat''

Judaism

• Rabbi David Small – Friday the Rabbi Slept Late
• Rabbi Avram – The Frisco Kid
• Rabbi Jacob "Jake" Schram – Keeping the Faith
• Rabbi Hyman Krustofsky – ''The Simpsons''

Unclassified, fictional, or non-specific religions

• Adiris – Babylonian priestess, Dead by Daylight
• Otto Stamper – leader of The Fold, a cult residing in The Garden of Joy, responsible for summoning The Dredge, Dead by Daylight
• Abdul Alhazred – author of the Necronomicon, mentioned in various works by Howard Philips Lovecraft
• The Lamb – unnamed protagonist of the indie video game Cult of the Lamb
• The Vestal – former priestess of an unknown church, Darkest Dungeon and Darkest Dungeon II
• The Occultist – former leader of a cult, Darkest Dungeon and Darkest Dungeon II
• Bensheng – leader of Happiness Metta Power Group, a fictional cult,
• Lin Lu-ho – leader of New Spiritual Society, a cult residing in Penghu, The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon
• Priest – Nameless ally who reverses transformations in Pizza Tower. Has a pizza printed on his biretta, but his exorcist counterpart uses a crucifix, suggesting he may be Christian.
• Rhea – Archbishop of the Church of Seiros, and later revealed to be the holy figure Seiros, in the game Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Also appears in the spin-off Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes.