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Clergy and other religious figures have generally represented a popular outlet for pop culture. Some of the more popular clergy, members of religious orders, and other religious personages featured in works of fiction are listed below.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Christianity

Catholic Church

Monks and friars

Nuns

Priests

Bishops

Popes

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

Nuns

Saints

Anglican/Episcopal churches

Priests

Bishops

Mormonism

Fundamentalist leaders

Baptists

Methodists

Other Protestants

Unspecified Christian

Shinto

Miko

(Names are listed by alphabetically by given name in the western convention of given-name, surname for clarity.)

Buddhism

Mahayana

Monks

Hinduism

Sadhu

Dhalsim – Street Fighter

Shamanism

Ainu religion

North American shamanism

Judaism

Unclassified, fictional, or non-specific religions

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