List of protomartyrs
A protomartyr is the first Christian martyr in a country or among a particular group, such as a religious order. Similarly, the phrase the Protomartyr can mean Saint Stephen, the first martyr of the Christian Church.
Saint Thecla the Protomartyr, the first female martyr of the Christian Church, is known as "apostle and protomartyr among women".
| Name | Year | Place | first... |
| Stephen | c. 34 | Jerusalem | — |
| Thecla | 1st century | Iconium | among women |
| First Martyrs of the Church of Rome | 64 | Rome | in Rome |
| Sandukht | 1st century | Armenia | in Armenia |
| Polyeuctus | 259 | Melitene | in Melitene |
| Alban | 3rd/4th c. | St Albans | in Great Britain |
| Denis of Paris | 3rd century | Paris | in Gallia Lugdunensis |
| Vincent of Saragossa | 304 | Valencia | in Spain |
| Rajden the First-Martyr | 457 | Tsromi | from Georgia / under the Sasanian Empire |
| Odran | 5th c. | Ireland | in Ireland |
| Boniface | 754 | Germany | in German lands |
| Adalbert of Prague | 997 | Prussia | in the Duchy of Poland |
| Five Martyr Brothers | 1003 | Poland | in Poland and Camaldolese |
| Gerard of Csanád | 1046 | Buda | Patron saint of Hungary |
| Theodore the Varangian and his son John | 10th c. | Kiev | in all Rus lands |
| The Franciscan protomartyrs | 1220 | Morocco | of the Franciscan order |
| Peter of Verona | 1252 | Italy | of the Dominican Order |
| Child Martyrs of Tlaxcala | 1527 | Mexico | in the Americas |
| Juan de Padilla | 1542 | Kansas | in what is now the United States |
| Luis Cáncer | 1549 | Tampa Bay, Florida | in Florida |
| Antonio de Valdivieso | 1549 | León | in Nicaragua |
| Peter Baptist and companions | 1627 | Nagasaki | in Japan |
| Philip of Jesus | 1627 | Nagasaki | from Mexico |
| Lorenzo Ruiz | 1637 | Nagasaki | from the Philippines |
| Andrew of Phu Yen | 1641 | Kẻ Chàm, Vietnam | in Vietnam |
| André de Soveral | 1645 | Canguaretama | in Brazil |
| Francis Ferdinand de Capillas | 1648 | Fujian, China | in the Chinese Empire |
| Pedro Calungsod | 1672 | Tumon, Guam | in Guam |
| Devasahayam | 1752 | Aralvaimozhi, Travancore | in India |
| Juvenaly | 1796 | Quinhagak, Alaska | in Alaska |
| Andrew Kim Taegon | 1846 | Seoul | in Korea |
| James Hannington | 1885 | Uganda | in Eastern Equatorial Africa |
| Peter Chanel | 1841 | Futuna | in Oceania |
| Vladimir Bogoyavlensky | 1918 | Moscow | under the Soviet Union |
| Marcello Maruzzo and Luis Navarro | 1981 | Los Amates | in Guatemala |