List of people excommunicated by the Catholic Church

This List of Excommunications is a list of persons excommunicated officially by the Roman Catholic Church. It includes only imposed excommunications which are declared via papal bull or other decree by the Pope. Automatic excommunications are not included here if not confirmed by a bishop.

21st century

Eduardo Aguirre, Guatemalan Catholic priest, now bishop of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church^[1]
Call to Action group members in Nebraska were excommunicated by Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz, Vatican later confirmed their excommunication.^[2]
Emmanual Milingo, former archbishop of Lusaka, for consecrating four married priests as bishops. Also excommunicated were those receiving consecration.^[3]
Rev. Dale Fushek and Rev. Mark Dippre. Former Priests were issued a Decree of Excommunication by Bishop Thomas J. Olmstead for operating "an opposing ecclesial community" in direct disobedience to orders to refrain from public ministry.^[4]
Mother of a nine-year old Brazilian rape victim, for obtaining an abortion for her daughter. Also the doctors performing the abortion. ^[5] Neither rapist (girls stepfather suspected by police of abusing her since she was 6) nor the girl herself was excommunicated.^[6]

Fidel Castro by Pope John XXIII on January 3, 1962 for heading a communist government
On April 16, 1962, New Orleans Archbishop Joseph Rummel excommunicated Jackson G. Ricau, political boss Leander Perez, and B.J Galliot, Jr. for opposing the integration of Catholic schools.
Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, Bishop Antonio de Castro Meyer, Bernard Fellay, Bernard Tissier de Mallerais, Richard Williamson and Alfonso de Galarreta for the Ecône Consecrations without papal mandate. Formally declared to have incurred latae sententiae excommunication by Cardinal Bernardin Gantin on July 1 1988.^[7]^[8] The excommunications of the latter four were lifted in 2008.
Father Romolo Murri, and leader of the Italian Catholic Democrats^[9]
Father Leonard Feeney, for refusal to appear in front of the Holy Office. Revoked in 1972^[10].
Juan Perón, in 1955, after he signed a decree ordering the expulsion of Argentine bishops Manuel Tato and Ramón Novoa^[11]^[12]
Father William Murphy of Seward, Nebraska, in 1901, for defying a ban on collecting money for the Irish Land League ^[13]
All Catholics who participated in the creation of an independent church in the Philippines, in 1902^[14]

Napoleon I of France, excommunicated June 10 1809 for ordering the annexation of Rome and a long period of anti-Papal orders. ^[15]
Stephen Kaminski, PNCC bishop, in 1898^[16]
Francis Hodur member of PNCC^[17]

Antipopes at Avignon Clement VII and Benedict XIII and their followers by proxy^{[clarification needed]}