List of Catholic priests and religious awarded the Nobel Prize

The following is a list of Catholic bishops, priests and religious who were awarded and nominated for the Nobel Prize.

Laureates

Year Image Laureate Born Died Field Citation Nominator(s)
1958 Georges Pire, O.P.
(religious name: Dominique)
10 February 1910
Dinant, Namur, Belgium
30 January 1969
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
Peace "for his efforts to help refugees to leave their camps and return to a life of freedom and dignity."
1979 Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, M.C.
(religious name: Mother Teresa)
26 August 1910
Skopje, North Macedonia
5 September 1997
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Peace "for her work for bringing help to suffering humanity."
1996 Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, S.D.B. 3 February 1948
Vemasse, Baucau, East Timor
Peace "for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor."
(awarded together with East Timorese politician José Ramos-Horta)
Hilton Deakin, D.D. (b. 1932)
2007 Jose Ramon Villarin, S.J. 30 January 1960
Manila, Philippines
Peace International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Al Gore (b. 1948) "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change."

Nominees

Image Laureate Born Died Years Nominated Citation Nominator(s)
Physics
Georges Lemaître 17 July 1894
Charleroi, Hainut, Belgium
20 June 1966
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
1954 "for his prediction of the expanding universe." Alexandre Dauvillier (1882–1979)
Chemistry
Jean-Baptiste Senderens 27 January 1856
Barbachen, Hautes-Pyrénées, France
26 September 1937
Barbachen, Hautes-Pyrénées, France
1909, 1928, 1929 "for his work on the catalytic hydrogenation of organic species in the presence of metals with Paul Sabatier."
Georges Lemaître 17 July 1894
Charleroi, Hainut, Belgium
20 June 1966
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
1956 "for his primeval atom theory (Big Bang theory)." Don Yost (1893–1977)
Literature
Alexander Baumgartner, S.J. 27 June 1841
St. Gallen, Switzerland
5 October 1910
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
1901, 1902, 1903 Knud Karl Krogh-Tonning (1842–1911)
Hartmann Grisar, S.J. September 22, 1845
Koblenz, Germany
February 25, 1932
Innsbruck, Austria
1902
Andrés Manjón y Manjón 30 November 1846
Sargentes de la Lora, Burgos, Spain
10 July 1923
Granada, Spain
1907 Ángel Sánchez-Rubio Ibáñez (1852–1910)
József Martoncsik, O.Praem
(religious name: Mécs László)
17 January 1895
Kostoľany nad Hornádom, Košice, Slovakia
9 November 1978
Pannonhalma, Győr-Moson-Sopron, Hungary
1969, 1970 Watson Kirkconnell (1895–1977)
Miquel Melendres i Rué 11 March 1902
Girona, Spain
10 March 1974
Tarragona, Spain
1971 Antoni Griera i Gaja (1887–1973)
Ernesto Cardenal 20 January 1925
Granada, Nicaragua
1 March 2020
Managua, Nicaragua
2005
Peace
Johann Martin Schleyer 18 July 1831
Lauda-Königshofen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
16 August 1912
Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
1902 "for having constructed the artificial language Volapük (1880)." Prince Alfred of Liechtenstein (1842–1907)
Pope Benedict XV
(baptismal name: Giacomo della Chiesa)
21 November 1854
Pegli, Genoa, Italy
22 January 1922
Rome, Italy
1915, 1916, 1920 "for his peace efforts and his work to ensure that prisoners of war were treated humanely."
Cardinal Pietro Gasparri 5 May 1852
Ussita, Macerata, Italy
18 November 1934
Rome, Italy
1919, 1920 "for having written the papal peace plan and encouraged people to strive for peace through the papal guidelines for peace and understanding." Hans Reichel (?)
Cardinal Désiré-Joseph Mercier 21 November 1851
Braine-l'Alleud, Walloon Brabant, Belgium
23 January 1926
Brussels, Belgium
1920 "for standing against the Germans when they burned the Louvain Library and deported workmen during the war, making him an international spokesman for the Belgians." Paul Fauchille (1858–1926)
Robert Jacquinot de Besange, S.J. 15 March 1878
Saintes, Charente-Maritime, France
10 September 1946
Berlin, Germany
1939 "for setting up safety zones that saved over half a million Chinese people during the Second Sino-Japanese War." Jules Basdevant (1877–1968)
Pope Pius XI
(baptismal name: Ambrogio Ratti)
31 May 1857
Desio, Monza e Brianza Italy
10 February 1939
Vatican City
1939 "for his efforts to end the harsh dictatorships in fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union." Romualdo Silva Cortes (1880–1958)
Pope Pius XII
(baptismal name: Eugenio Maria Pacelli)
2 March 1876
Rome, Italy
9 October 1958
Castel Gandolfo, Rome, Italy
1947, 1948 "for his peace work during and after World War II."
Georges Pire, O.P.
(religious name: Dominique)
10 February 1910
Dinant, Namur, Belgium
30 January 1969
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
1957, 1958 "for his work to aid refugees in Europe and for his idea of creating homes for elderly refugees by making European villages is very original, but very practical."
Philippus van Straaten, O.Praem
(religious name: Werenfried)
17 January 1913
Mijdrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
13 January 2003
Bad Soden, Hesse, Germany
1959 "for his work with helping clerical refugees from Eastern Europe." Ferdinand de Waele (1896–1977)
Félix Kir 22 January 1876
Alise-Sainte-Reine, Côte-d'Or, France
26 April 1968
Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France
1960, 1961 "for his work with mutual 'adoption' of cities around the world." Charles Dutheil (1897–1970)
Pope Paul VI
(baptismal name: Giovanni Battista Montini).
26 September 1897
Concesio, Brescia, Italy
6 August 1978
Castel Gandolfo, Rome, Italy
1965, 1967 "for his efforts for universal reconciliation, shown in various statements that was given during his visit to Jordan and Israel."
Cardinal Joseph Leo Cardijn 13 November 1882
Schaerbeek, Belgium
24 July 1967
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
1966 "for his great achievements for the cause of peace through the worldwide establishment of the movement he founded, the Young Christian Workers, and his untiring quest for universal brotherhood resting on social justice."
Henri Marie Grouès, O.F.M.Cap
(religious name: Abbé Pierre)
5 August 1912
Lyon, Rhône, France
22 January 2007
Paris, France
1967 "for having inspired universal solidarity through the Emmaus movement, which helps thousands of poor, homeless people and refugees."
Vicenç Ferrer Moncho, S.J. 9 April 1920
Barcelona, Spain
19 June 2009
Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India
1968 "for having uplifted the poor and exploited by means of education and self-help projects and having revitalized an ever-widening area of famine-threatened India with a movement based on the most fundamental of human values, a most significant contribution to the achievement of peace in our age, uplifting the poor and exploited by means of education and self-help projects." Francis X. Murphy (1914–2002)
Archbp. Hélder Câmara 7 February 1909
Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
27 August 1999
Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
1970, 1971, 1973 "for his unique role in one of the poorest areas of Latin-America as a leader of the progressive minority of the Catholic Church and leading spokesman for non-violent methods to further social change where has played an important international role by contributing to a greater understanding in industrialized countries of the social reality in one of the poorest areas in the world"
Stefan Wyszyński 3 August 1901
Zuzela, Ostrów Mazowiecka, Poland
28 May 1981
Warsaw, Poland
1971 "for his efforts to mediate disputes and prevent violence which could have had tragic consequences for social order and peace." Stanley Haidasz (1923–2009)
Bp. Donal Lamont, O.Carm 27 July 1911
Ballycastle, Ulster, Ireland
14 August 2003
Dublin, Ireland
1978 "for his outspoken criticism against the racist policies of the Smith regime in Rhodesia."
Archbp. Óscar Romero 15 August 1917
Ciudad Barrios, San Miguel, El Salvador
24 March 1980
San Salvador, El Salvador
1978, 1979 "for defending human rights and freedom of the people, and denouncing the social injustices and military dictatorship in El Salvador."
Aloysius Schwartz 18 September 1930
Washington, D.C., United States
16 March 1992
Manila, Philippines
1984, 1992 "for his ministry to thousands of poor children around the world." Bob Dornan (b. 1933)
Archbp. Elias Chacour 29 November 1939
Kafr Bir'im, Upper Galilee, Palestine
1988, 1989, 1994 "for his efforts in educating Palestinians, Jews, and Muslims on reconciliation and non-violent change in Israeli society."
Maria Rita de Souza Pontes, S.M.I.C.
(religious name: Dulce)
26 May 1914
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
13 March 1992
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
1988, 1992 "for her tireless caring of the poor and defending the rights of workers in Bahia.
Bp. Antonio Fortich 11 August 1913
Negros Oriental, Philippines
2 July 2003
Negros Occidental, Philippines
1989 "for being a strong advocate of the rights of the poor and a critic of an unjust social economic system."

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