List of canonizations

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For a list of saints and blessed Roman Catholics, see Chronological list of saints and blesseds.

On 22 January 1588, with the Apostolic Constitution Immensa Aeterni Dei, Pope Sixtus V created the Sacred Congregation of Rites to regulate divine worship and to deal with the causes of saints.

Canonizations before 1588 [edit]

Source: Canonizations before CSS. Retrieved 2008-05-15. In the table below, disputed indicates an asterisk ("*") in this source and indicates conflicting information.

Pontificate of Pope Benedict IX [edit]

Date uncertain – possibly 1035
- Symeon of Trier

Pontificate of Pope Clement II [edit]

5 January 1047

- Wiborada of Saint Gall (St Gallen or 'Sankt-Gall')

Pontificate of Pope Leo IX [edit]

1049
- Deodatus of Nevers
- Gervase of Liege
3 December 1049
- Romaric
- Ame
- Adelphus
2 May 1050
- Gerard of Toul
8 October 1051
- Wolfgang of Regensburg
- Erhard of Regensburg

Pontificate of Pope Alexander II [edit]

1067
- Ariardus of Noyon^[1]
1070
- Theobald of Provins
- Íñigo of Oña, also known as Eneco

Pontificate of Pope Gregory VII [edit]

1073
- Paschasius Radbertus
1083

Pontificate of Pope Urban II [edit]

1084
- Godelina
1095
- Erlembald
1098
- Nicola Pellegrino
c. 1089–1099, date uncertain
- Adelaide of Italy, disputed, see explanation above
date uncertain
- Attilanus
1100
- Angilbert

Pontificate of Pope Pascal II [edit]

19 April 1101
- Canute of Denmark
4 June 1109
- Peter of Anagni

Pontificate of Pope Callistus II [edit]

6 January 1120
- Arnold of Soissons
1120
- Hugh of Cluny, also known as Saint Hugh (the Great)
1123
- Conrad of Constance
c. 1123–1124, date uncertain
- Gerard of Potenza

Pontificate of Pope Innocent II [edit]

29 October 1129
- Gotthard of Hildesheim
22 April 1134
- Hugh of Châteauneuf
19 April 1139
- Saint Sturm

Pontificate of Pope Eugene III [edit]

4 March 1146
- Henry I, also known as Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor

Pontificate of Pope Adrian IV [edit]

1154
- Famianus of Compostela,^[2] disputed, see explanation above

Pontificate of Pope Alexander III [edit]

7 February 1161
- Edward the Confessor
9 June 1163
- Anselm of Canterbury
1164
- Helena of Skövde
8 November 1169
- Canute Lavard
21 February 1173
- Thomas Becket
1174
- Bernard of Clairvaux
unknown

Pontificate of Pope Lucius III [edit]

1181
- Bruno of Segni, disputed, see explanation above
1185
- Galgano Guidotti
1186
- Anno II of Cologne, disputed, see explanation above

Pontificate of Pope Clement III [edit]

1188
- Saint Ketil,^[3] disputed, see explanation above
21 March 1189
- Stephen of Muret
29 April 1189
- Otto of Bamberg
6 May 1190
- Malachy O'More
1191
- Peter of Tarentaise, disputed, see explanation above

Pontificate of Pope Celestine III [edit]

4 March 1192
- Ubald Baldassini of Gubbio
8 January 1193
- Bernward of Hildesheim
24 October 1193
- John Gualbert
1194
- Gaucherius
c. 1195–1196, date uncertain
- Rudesind
27 April 1197
- Gerald of Sauve-Majeure
unknown
- Ronald

Pontificate of Pope Innocent III [edit]

21 January 1199
- Homobonus of Cremona
March or April 1200
- Cunegund
1202
- Gilbert of Sempringham
8 May 1202
- William of Maleval
1203
- Belina
14 May 1203
- Wulstan
2 July 1204
- Procopius of Sázava

Pontificate of Pope Honorius III [edit]

17 May 1218
- William de Donjeon
18 February 1220
- Hugh of Lincoln
1220
- Bertrand of Comminges, disputed, see explanation above
8 January 1222
- Robert of Molesme
21 January 1224
- William of Roskilde
11 December 1225
- Lorcán Ua Tuathail, also known as Lawrence O’Toole
18 March 1226
- William Fitzherbert

Pontificate of Pope Gregory IX [edit]

16 July 1228
- Francis of Assisi
1 June 1232
- Anthony of Padua
18 June 1232
- Vergilius of Salzburg
3 July 1234
- Dominic de Guzman
27 May 1235
- Elizabeth of Hungary

Pontificate of Pope Innocent IV [edit]

16 December 1246
- Edmund Rich
24 March 1247
- William Pinchon
1250
- Margaret of Scotland, disputed, see explanation above
9 March 1253
- Peter of Verona, also known as Peter "Martyr" of Verona
8 September 1253
- Stanislaus of Szczepanów

Pontificate of Pope Alexander IV [edit]

12 August 1255
- Clare of Assisi
1256
- William of Perth

Pontificate of Pope Urban IV [edit]

25 January 1262
- Richard de Wych
1 May 1262
- Felix of Valois

Pontificate of Pope Clement IV [edit]

26 March 1267
- Hedwig of Silesia

Pontificate of Pope Martin IV [edit]

Unknown
- Benvenutus Scotivoli

Pontificate of Pope Boniface VIII [edit]

11 July 1297
- Louis IX

Pontificate of Pope Clement V [edit]

5 May 1313
- Pope Celestine V, also known as Peter Celestine

Pontificate of Pope John XXII [edit]

7 April 1317
- Louis of Toulouse
17 April 1320
- Thomas de Cantilupe
18 July 1323
- Thomas Aquinas

Pontificate of Pope Clement VI [edit]

26 June 1347
- Ivo of Kermartin
19 September 1351
- Robert de Turlande

Pontificate of Pope Urban V [edit]

15 April 1370
- Elzéar of Sabran

Pontificate of Pope Boniface IX [edit]

7 October 1391
- Bridget of Sweden
1401
- John Twenge, disputed, see explanation above

Pontificate of Pope Martin V [edit]

26 March 1425
- Sebald

Pontificate of Pope Eugene IV [edit]

1 February 1447
- Nicholas of Tolentino
unknown
- Bellinus

Pontificate of Pope Nicholas V [edit]

24 May 1450
- Bernardino of Siena

Pontificate of Pope Callistus III [edit]

3 June 1455
- Vincent Ferrer
1 January 1457
- Osmund
15 October 1457
- Albert of Trapani
1457
- Rose of Viterbo, disputed, see explanation above

Pontificate of Pope Pius II [edit]

29 June 1461
- Catherine of Siena

Pontificate of Pope Sixtus IV [edit]

7 August 1481
- Berard of Carbio, martyred 16 January 1120
- Otto, also known as Otho, martyred 16 January 1120 with Berard
- Peter, martyred 16 January 1120 with Berard
- Accursius, martyred 16 January 1120 with Berard
- Adjutus, martyred 16 January 1120 with Berard
14 May 1482
- Bonaventure

Pontificate of Pope Innocent VIII [edit]

6 January 1485
- Leopold III

Pontificate of Pope Leo X [edit]

1516
- Daniel and Companions
1 May 1519
- Francis of Paola

Pontificate of Pope Adrian VI [edit]

1521
- Casimir
31 May 1523
- Benno of Meissen
- Antoninus of Florence

Modern canonization [edit]

Pontificate of Pope Sixtus V [edit]

2 July 1588
- Didacus of Alcalá

Pontificate of Clement VIII (4) [edit]

17 April 1594
- Hyacinth of Poland
1595
- Romuald
1598
- Sylvester Gozzolini
29 April 1601
- Raymond of Penyafort

Pontificate of Paul V (2) [edit]

29 May 1608
- Frances of Rome
1 November 1610
- Charles Borromeo

Pontificate of Gregory XV (5) [edit]

12 March 1622

Pontificate of Urban VIII (2) [edit]

24 June 1625
- Elizabeth of Portugal
29 April 1629
- Andrew Corsini

Pontificate of Alexander VII (2) [edit]

1 November 1658
- Thomas of Villanova
19 April 1665
- Francis de Sales

Pontificate of Clement IX (2) [edit]

28 April 1669
- Maria Magdalena de Pazzi
- Peter of Alcantara

Pontificate of Clement X (6) [edit]

20 June 1670
- Francis Borgia
12 April 1671
- Cajetan
- Louis Bertrand
- Philip Benizi de Damiani
- Rose of Lima
- Ferdinand III of Castile was canonized during 1671.

Pontificate of Innocent XI [edit]

1681
- Bernard of Menthon

Pontificate of Alexander VIII (5) [edit]

16 October 1690

Pontificate of Clement XI (5) [edit]

Pontificate of Benedict XIII (10) [edit]

27 December 1726
- Peregrine Laziosi
31 December 1726
- Aloysius Gonzaga
- Stanislaus Kostka
19 March 1729

Pontificate of Clement XII (4) [edit]

16 June 1737

Pontificate of Benedict XIV (5) [edit]

29 June 1746

Pontificate of Clement XIII (6) [edit]

16 July 1767

Pontificate of Pius VII (6) [edit]

1805
- Christopher of Guardia (d. 1490)^[4]

24 May 1807

Pontificate of Gregory XVI (5) [edit]

26 May 1839

Pontificate of Pius IX (52) [edit]

8 June 1862
- Martyrs of Japan
29 June 1867

Pontificate of Pope Leo XIII (18) [edit]

1881
- Clare of Montefalco (d. 1308)
- Saint Giovanni Battista de Rossi (1696–1764)
- Lawrence of Brindisi (d. 1619)
1883
- Benedict Joseph Labre (1748–1783)
1888
- Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order
- Peter Claver (1561–1654)
- John Berchmans (1599–1621)
- Alphonsus Rodriguez (1531–1617)
1897
- Anthony Maria Zaccaria (1502–1539)
- Peter Fourier (1565–1640)
1900
- Jean-Baptiste de La Salle (1651–1719)
- Rita of Cascia (1381–1457)

Pontificate of Pope Pius X (4) [edit]

1904
- Alexander Sauli (1904)
- Gerard Majella (1904)
1909
- Clemens Maria Hofbauer
- Joseph Oriol

Pontificate of Pope Benedict XV (3) [edit]

13 May 1920
- Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows (1838–1862)
- Saint Marguerite Marie Alacoque (1647–1690)
16 May 1920
- Saint Joan of Arc (1412–1431), burnt alive on 30 May 1431, at the age of nineteen

Pontificate of Pope Pius XI (25) [edit]

17 May 1925
- Thérèse of Lisieux
21 May 1925
- Peter Canisius
24 May 1925
- Madeleine Sophie Barat
31 May 1925
- Jean Vianney
_ ___ 1925
- Mary Magdalen Postel
- John Eudes
22 June 1930
- Catherine of Palma
29 June 1930
_____ 1930
- Lucy Filippini
16 December 1931
- Albert the Great
4 June 1933
- Andrew Fournet
8 December 1933
- Bernadette Soubirous
11 March 1934
- Louise de Marillac
19 March 1934
- Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo
1 April 1934
- John Bosco
20 May 1934
- Conrad of Parzham
____1934
19 May 1935
- John Fisher
- Thomas More
17 April 1938
- Andrew Bobola
- Salvador of Horta
_______ 1938
- Giovanni Leonardi

Pontificate of Pope Pius XII [edit]

Main article: Saints canonized by Pope Pius XII

Pontificate of Pope Paul VI [edit]

18 October 1964
- Uganda Martyrs
29 October 1967
- Bénilde Romançon
22 June 1969
- Julie Billiart
31 May 1970
- John of Ávila
25 October 1970
- Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
1975
- Juan Macías
14 September 1975
- Elizabeth Ann Seton
12 October 1975
- Oliver Plunkett
17 October 1976
- John Ogilvie
9 October 1977
- Charbel Makhluf
19 June 1977
- John Neumann

Pontificate of Pope John Paul II [edit]

Main article: List of saints canonized by Pope John Paul II

20 June 1982
- Crispin of Viterbo (1668–1750)
10 October 1982
- Maximilian Kolbe, OFM (1894–1941)
31 October 1982
- Marguerite Bourgeoys (1620–1700)
- Jeanne Delanoue (1666–1736)
16 October 1983
- Leopold Mandić (1866–1942)
11 March 1984
- Paula Frassinetti (1809–1882)
6 May 1984
- Korean Martyrs
21 October 1984
- Miguel Febres Cordero (1854–1910)
13 April 1986
- Francis Fasani (1681–1742)
12 October 1986
- Giuseppe Maria Tomasi (1649–1713)
18 October 1987
- Lorenzo Ruiz (+1637)
- Domingo Ibáñez de Erquicia, OP (1589–1633)
- Jacobo Kyushei Tomonaga, OP and their Twelve Companions:
25 October 1987
- Giuseppe Moscati (1880–1927)
16 May 1988
- Martyrs of Paraguay:
  - Roque González de Santa Cruz (1576–1628)
  - Alphonsus Rodriguez (+1628)
  - Juan de Castillo, SJ (1596–1628)
11 June 1988
- Eustochia Smeralda Calafato (1434–1485)
19 June 1988
- 117 Vietnamese Martyrs (+1745–1862)
3 July 1988
- Simón de Rojas, O.SS. (1552–1624)
- Rose Philippine Duchesne (1769–1852)
2 October 1988
- Magdalene of Canossa (1774–1835)
11 December 1988
- Maria Rosa Molas y Vallvé (1815–1876)
9 April 1989
- Clelia Barbieri (1847–1870)
1 November 1989
- Gaspar Bertoni (1777–1853)
- Riccardo Pampuri, O.H. (1897–1930)
12 November 1989
- Agnes of Bohemia (1211–1282)
- Albert of Kraków (Adam Chmielowski)(1845–1916)
10 December 1989
- Mutien-Marie Wiaux, FSC (1841–1917)
9 December 1990
- Marguerite d’Youville (1701–1771)
17 November 1991
- Raphael Kalinowski, OCD (1835–1907)
31 May 1992
- Claude de la Colombière, SJ (1641–1682)
11 October 1992
- Ezequiel Moreno y Díaz (1848–1906)
21 March 1993
- Mary of St. Ignatius (Claudine Thévenet) (1774–1837)
- Teresa de Jesus de los Andes (Juana Fernández Solar) (1900–1920)
16 June 1993
- Enrique de Ossó y Cercelló (1840–1896)
8 September 1993
- Saint Meinhard (1134/36–1196)
21 May 1995
- John Sarkander (1576–1620)
- Zdislava Berka (1220–1252)
2 July 1995
- Martyrs of Kosice (+1619):
  - Marko Krizin (1588–1619)
  - István Pongrácz (1582–1609)
  - Melchior Grodziecki, SJ (1584–1619)
3 December 1995
- Charles-Joseph-Eugene de Mazenod (1782–1861)
2 June 1996
- Jean-Gabriel Perboyre (1802–1840)
- Egidio Maria of Saint Joseph (Francis Anthony Postillo) (1729–1812)
- Juan Grande Román, O.H. (1546–1600)
8 June 1997
- Hedwig, queen of Poland (1374–1399)
10 June 1997
- John of Dukla (1414–1484)
11 October 1998
- Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) (1891–1942)
18 April 1999
- Marcellin Champagnat (1789–1840)
- Giovanni Calabria (1873–1954)
- Agostina Livia Pietrantoni (1864–1894)
16 June 1999
- Kinga of Poland (1234–1292)
21 November 1999
- Brother Cyrill Bertrán and 8 Companions (+1934)
- Jaime Hilario, FSC (1898–1937)
- Inocencio of Mary Immaculate (+1937)
- Benedict Menni, OH (1841–1914)
- Thomas of Cori, OFM (1655–1729)
30 April 2000
- Sister Faustina (1905–1938)
21 May 2000
- Saints of the Cristero War
1 October 2000
- Augustine Chao (+1815) and 119 companions, Chinese Martyrs
- María Josefa of the Heart of Jesus Sancho de Guerra (1842–1912)
- Katharine Drexel (1858–1955)
- Josephine Bakhita (1869–1947)
10 June 2001
- Luigi Scrosoppi
- Agostino Roscelli
- Bernard of Corleone
- Teresa Eustochio Verzeri
- Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès
25 November 2001
- Joseph Marello (1844–1895)
- Paula Montal Fornes de San Jose de Calasanz (1799–1889)
- Leonie Françoise de Sales Aviat (1844–1914)
- Maria Crescentia Höss (1682–1744)
19 May 2002
- Alphonsus de Orozco (1500–1591)
- Ignatius of Santhià (1686–1770)
- Humilis of Bisignano (1582–1637)
- Pauline of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus (1865–1942)
- Benedetta Cambiagio Frassinello (1791–1858)
16 June 2002
- Pio of Pietrelcina (1887–1968)
30 July 2002
- Hermano Pedro de San José de Betancurt (1626–1667)
31 July 2002
- Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin (1474–1548)
6 October 2002
- Josemaría Escrivá (1902–1975)
4 May 2003
- Pedro Poveda Castroverde (1874–1936)
- José María Rubio (1864–1929)
- Genoveva Torres Morales (1870–1956)
- Angela of the Cross (1846–1932)
- María Maravillas de Jesús (1891–1974)
18 May 2003
- Józef Sebastian Pelczar (1842–1924)
- Ursula Ledóchowska (1865–1939)
- Maria De Mattias (1805–1866)
- Virginia Centurione Bracelli (1587–1651)
5 October 2003
- Daniel Comboni (1831–1881)
- Arnold Janssen (1837–1909)
- Joseph Freinademetz (1852–1908)
16 May 2004
- Luigi Orione (1872–1940)
- Annibale Maria di Francia (1851–1927)
- Josep Manyanet i Vives (1833–1901)
- Nimattullah Kassab Al-Hardini (1808–1858)
- Paola Elisabetta Cerioli (1816–1865)
- Gianna Beretta Molla (1922–1962)

Pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI [edit]

23 October 2005
- Józef Bilczewski (1860–1923)
- Gaetano Catanoso (1879–1963)
- Zygmunt Gorazdowski (1845–1920)
- Alberto Hurtado (1901–1952)
- Felix of Nicosia (1715–1787)
15 October 2006
- Bishop Rafael Guízar Valencia (1878–1938)
- Mother Théodore Guérin (1798–1856)
- Filippo Smaldone (1848–1923)
- Rose Venerini (1656–1728)
11 May 2007
- Antônio de Sant'Anna Galvão (1739–1822)
3 June 2007
- George Preca (1880–1962)
- Szymon of Lipnica (1437–1482)
- Charles of Mount Argus (1821–1893)
- Marie-Eugénie de Jésus (1817–1898)
12 October 2008
- Alphonsa Muttathupadathu (1910–1946)
- Gaetano Errico (1791–1860)
- Narcisa de Jesús (1832–1869)
- Maria Bernarda Bütler (1848–1924)
26 April 2009
- Arcangelo Tadini (1846–1912)
- Bernardo Tolomei (1272–1348)
- Nuno Álvares Pereira (1360–1431)
- Geltrude Comensoli (1847–1903)
- Caterina Volpicelli (1839–1894)
11 October 2009
- Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński (1822–1895)
- Francisco Coll Guitart (1812–1875)
- Damien de Veuster (1840–1889)
- Rafael Arnáiz Barón (1911–1938)
- Jeanne Jugan (1792–1879)
17 October 2010
- Stanisław Kazimierczyk (1433–1489)
- André Bessette (1845–1937)
- Candida Maria of Jesus (1845–1912)
- Mary MacKillop (1842–1909)
- Giulia Salzano (1846–1929)
- Camilla Battista da Varano (1458–1524)
23 October 2011
- Guido Maria Conforti (1865–1931)
- Luigi Guanella (1842–1915)
- Bonifacia Rodríguez y Castro (1837–1905)
21 October 2012
- Jacques Berthieu (1838–1896)
- Pedro Calungsod (ca.1654–1672)
- Giovanni Battista Piamarta (1841–1913)
- María del Monte Carmelo Sallés y Barangueras (1848–1911)
- Marianne Cope (1838–1918)
- Kateri Tekakwitha (ca.1656–1680)
- Anna Schäffer (1882–1925)

Pontificate of Pope Francis [edit]

12 May 2013
- Martyrs of Otranto (+1480)
- Laura of Saint Catherine of Siena (1874–1949)
- Maria Guadalupe Garcia Zavala (1878–1963)

References [edit]

^ http://books.google.gr/books?id=p8GqqPfs6EIC&pg=PA193&lpg=PA193&dq=st.+Ariardus&source=bl&ots=r0ZJRnih0K&sig=ZPjiz2LzzQObi3CP0oy-_ywJDcc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GIxQUZTUM8SJPaHYgLgK&ved=0CEkQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=st.%20Ariardus&f=false
^ http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-famianus-of-compostela/
^ https://wikihost.uib.no/medieval/index.php/Sanctus_Ketillus
^ Bunson, Matthew. Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints. Our Sunday Visitor. p. 207.

External links [edit]

[1] ttp://books.google.gr/books?id=p8GqqPfs6EIC&pg=PA193&lpg=PA193&dq=st.+Ariardus&source=bl&ots=r0ZJRnih0K&sig=ZPjiz2LzzQObi3CP0oy-_ywJDcc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GIxQUZTUM8SJPaHYgLgK&ved=0CEkQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=st.%20Ariardus&f=false

[2] ttp://saints.sqpn.com/saint-famianus-of-compostela/

[3] ttps://wikihost.uib.no/medieval/index.php/Sanctus_Ketillus

[4] Bunson, Matthew. Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints. Our Sunday Visitor. p. 207.

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