List of fictional clergy and religious figures

Monks

 * Adso of Melk (Benedictine)- The Name of the Rose novel & movie
 * Brother Brace - RuneScape
 * Brother Cadfael (Benedictine) - mystery novels by Edith Pargeter
 * Caraccioli - (Dominican) - A General History of the Robberies and Murders Of the most notorious Pyrates by Charles Johnson
 * Friar Carl - Van Helsing
 * Friar Domingo - Shogun, played by Michael Hordern in the 1980 TV miniseries.
 * Brother Dominic - TV ads for Xerox photocopiers
 * "Friar Fuck" - Sex and the City
 * Brother Edward Hamilton - Chrono Crusade
 * Friar Huberd - The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
 * Father Imperius - Ladyhawke
 * Friar Lawrence - Romeo and Juliet
 * Brother Maynard - Monty Python and the Holy Grail
 * The Monk - The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
 * Brother Theo (Dominican) - Babylon 5
 * Friar Tuck - Robin Hood
 * William of Baskerville (Franciscan) - The Name of the Rose novel & movie

Nuns

 * Sister Angela - One-Pound Gospel
 * Sister Anna Baragli (Andie MacDowell) - Hudson Hawk
 * Sister Barbara Bennett - Change of Habit
 * Ciel - Tsukihime, Melty Blood and Shingetsutan Tsukihime
 * Sister Laura Donnelly - Love is a Many Splendored Thing
 * Eglentyne The Prioress - The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
 * Sister Euphemia - Nuns on the Run
 * Felicia - Darkstalkers
 * Sister Fidelma - stories by Peter Tremayne
 * Sister Michelle Gallagher - Change of Habit
 * Sister Mako Graham - Yakitate!! Japan
 * Sister Inviolata - Nuns on the Run
 * Sister Irene Hawkins - Change of Habit
 * Sister Kate - TV series Sister Kate
 * Sister Margaret - D no Fūin and Girl Saurus series, all by manga-ka Kei Kusunoki
 * Sister Marie - Popetown
 * Sister Mary of the Annunciation - Nuns on the Run
 * Sister Mary Benedict - The Bells of St. Mary's
 * Sister Mary Elephant - from the Cheech & Chong comedy skit of the same name
 * Sister Mary of the Sacred Heart - Nuns on the Run
 * Sister Mary Stigmata (a.k.a. "The Penguin") - The Blues Brothers
 * Sister Miyako - Kannazuki no Miko
 * Sister Josepha Montafiore (Natascha McElhone) - Revelations TV miniseries
 * Sister Olav - The Far Arena
 * Sister Stephanie "Steve" Oskowski - Father Dowling Mysteries TV series
 * Sister Penelope - Popetown
 * Yoko Belnades in Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
 * Sister Yukariko Sanada - Mai-HiME
 * The Second Nun - The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
 * Sister Thornly - Time Squad

Nuns from The Flying Nun

 * Sister Ana
 * Sister Bertrille/Elsie Ethrington (Sally Field)
 * Sister Jacqueline
 * Reverend Mother Superior Plaseato
 * Sister Sixto
 * Sister Theresa

Nuns from The Sound of Music

 * Mother Abbess
 * Sister Bernice
 * Sister Berthe
 * Sister Margaretta
 * Sister Sophia

Nuns from Black Narcissus

 * Sister Briony (Judith Furse)
 * Sister Clodagh (Deborah Kerr)
 * Mother Dorothea (Nancy Roberts)
 * Sister Honey (Jenny Laird)
 * Sister Phillipa (Flora Robson)
 * Sister Ruth (Kathleen Byron)

Nuns from Chrono Crusade
Unless otherwise specified, all below belong to the fictional Order of Mary Magdalene.
 * Sister Anna
 * Sister Claire
 * Sister Rosette Christopher
 * Sister Azmaria Hendric
 * Sister Mary
 * Sister Kate Valentine

Nuns from Sister Act and Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

 * Mother Superior (played by Maggie Smith)
 * Sister Alma
 * Sister Mary Clarence, alias Deloris van Cartier (played by Whoopi Goldberg)
 * Sister Mary Lazarus
 * Sister Mary Patrick
 * Sister Mary Robert

Deacons

 * The Pardoner - The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Priests

 * Captain Paul Adrano - Chaplin in the US Marines in Donal Pfarrer's Novel "The Fearless Man"
 * Father Alexander Anderson - Hellsing
 * Pfarrer Guido Braun - Pfarrer Braun, a 2003 German TV series based on the Father Brown stories
 * Father Ben - fictional character from (meta-fictional) television show that Father Ted watched.
 * Father Ralph de Bricassart - The Thorn Birds
 * Father Brennan - The Omen
 * Father John Brown - created by G. K. Chesterton
 * Father Donald Callahan - Stephen King's novel 'Salem's Lot and in The Dark Tower series
 * Don Camillo Tarocci - Giovanni Guareschi's tales.
 * Father Peter Clifford - BBC TV's Ballykissangel
 * Father Ted Crilly - Father Ted TV series
 * Confessor (Jeremiah Parrish) - Astro City
 * Father David - D no Fūin
 * Father Frank Dowling - Father Dowling Mysteries TV series
 * Father Ellerton - Priest (1994 movie)
 * Mr. Eko - Lost
 * Father Stephen Fermoyle - The Cardinal by Henry Morton Robinson
 * Father Andrew Graham - Yakitate!! Japan
 * Belial (Betheal) Gavarre - Priest manga
 * Father Jack Hackett - Father Ted TV series
 * Father Ignatius - Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
 * Father Damien Karras - The Exorcist
 * Father Kirei Kotomine - Fate/Stay Night
 * Father Laforgue - Black Robe
 * Father Peter Lonergan - The Quiet Man
 * Father 'Mac' Macanally - BBC TV's Ballykissangel
 * Father John Majeski - All in the Family TV series
 * Father Maurice - Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
 * Father Maxi - South Park
 * Father Enrico Maxwell (later Archbishop) - Hellsing
 * Father Dougal McGuire - Father Ted TV series
 * Father Lancaster Merrin - The Exorcist
 * Tommy Miller - The Butterfly Effect
 * Father Richard Moore - The Exorcism of Emily Rose
 * Father John Patrick Francis Mulcahy - M*A*S*H (TV series)
 * Father Nicholas - Popetown
 * Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner) - X-Men
 * The Nun's Priest - The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
 * Father Aidan O'Connell - BBC TV's Ballykissangel
 * Father Chuck O'Malley - Going My Way and The Bells of Saint Mary's
 * Father Paneloux - The Plague
 * The Parson - The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
 * Father Greg Pilkington - Priest (1994 movie)
 * Father Philip Prestwick - Father Dowling Mysteries TV series
 * Priest (no name given) - The Power and the Glory, a novel by Graham Greene
 * Father Ewan Remington - Chrono Crusade
 * Father Roberto - D no Fūin and Girl Saurus series, all by manga-ka Kei Kusunoki
 * Father Ronaldo Hellsing
 * Father Ramon Ruiz-Sanchez - Jesuit priest in A Case of Conscience by James Blish
 * Father Emilio Sandez - Jesuit priest-linguist in Mary Doria Russell's novels Children of God and The Sparrow
 * Father Guido Sarducci - Vatican gossip columnist played by comedian Don Novello on Saturday Night Live and other TV shows and movies
 * Father Vincent Sheahan - BBC TV's Ballykissangel
 * Sloth, the lazy priest - Piers Plowman, a long-form poem written by William Langland in 1377
 * Fr. Frank "Buzz" Scott - The Poseidon Adventure novel by Paul Gallico and movie
 * Father Spiletto - The Omen
 * Father Thomas - Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
 * Father Matthew Thomas - Priest (1994 movie)
 * Father Wolfgang - Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

Bishops

 * Bishop of Aquila - Ladyhawke
 * Bishop René Aramis of Vannes - The D'Artagnan Romances novels of Alexandre Dumas
 * Bishop Aringarosa - Opus Dei Bishop in The Da Vinci Code
 * Bishop Len Brennan - Father Ted TV series
 * Archbishop Gilday - The Godfather Part III
 * Bishop O'Hara - Sister Act
 * Archbishop Richard Rushman - Primal Fear
 * Bishop Blackie Ryan - Andrew Greeley novels

Cardinals

 * "Cardinal" - Flesh & Blood (1985)
 * Cardinal Sean Cronin - Andrew Greeley Novels
 * Cardinal Ignatius Glick - Dogma, played by George Carlin
 * Cardinal Grandenetti - Astro City
 * Cardinal Lamberto - The Godfather Part III
 * Cardinal Patrick Henry Roark - Sin City

Popes

 * Pope Bernadette II - ''Crusade
 * Pope Celestine VI - Council by Greg Tobin
 * Pope David I - (Robbie Coltrane) The Pope Must Die
 * Pope Joan - female pope in De septem donis Spiritu Sancti ("The Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit"), a medieval satire of the Church written circa 1250
 * Pope John Calvin - novel The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
 * Pope Kiril I - The Shoes of the Fisherman, played by Anthony Quinn in the movie based on that novel
 * Pope Hadrian XI - The Futurological Congress by Stanisław Lem
 * Pope Oswald - Battle Pope
 * Pope Peter II - The Accidental Pope by Raymond Flynn and Robin Moore
 * Pope Pius - The Pope Must Die
 * Pope Pius XX - 3001: The Final Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
 * Pope Pius XV - Babylon 5 universe
 * Pope Genevieve G. Rota - Lexx
 * Pope Sixtus the Seventh - robot pope in Good News from the Vatican by Robert Silverberg
 * Pope Urban X - Candide
 * The Space Pope (Crocodylus pontifex) - Futurama

Monks

 * Theodorus Philetas -The History of the Necronomicon by H. P. Lovecraft
 * Elder Zosima - The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Priests

 * Father Grigori - Half Life 2 video game

Bishops

 * Bishop Tikhon - The Devils by Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a chapter originally excised by Russian censors but which can be found in many modern editions.

Priests

 * Mr Arabin - Chronicles of Barsetshire series of novels by Anthony Trollope
 * William Collins - Pride and Prejudice, novel by Jane Austen; also several film and TV adaptations
 * The Reverend Lord Henry d'Ascoyne ("The Parson") - Kind Hearts and Coronets, one of eight roles played by Alec Guinness in that film.
 * Reverend Jack Gilliam - Chrono Crusade
 * Geraldine Grainger - The Vicar of Dibley TV Series
 * Archdeacon Grantly - Chronicles of Barsetshire series of novels by Anthony Trollope
 * Septimus Harding - Chronicles of Barsetshire series of novels by Anthony Trollope
 * Graham Hess - Signs
 * Father Lonigan on Passions
 * Mr Quiverfull - Chronicles of Barsetshire series of novels by Anthony Trollope
 * Cyril Playfair - The Quiet Man
 * Obadiah Slope - Chronicles of Barsetshire series of novels by Anthony Trollope
 * Reverend Doctor Christopher Syn - Doctor Syn series of novels by Russell Thorndike
 * The Rev. Mr. Wainwright (played by Nicholas Parsons) - Doctor Who serial The Curse of Fenric
 * Mike Weber - Soul Man TV Series
 * Daniel Webster -''The Book of Daniel TV Series
 * Reverend Jonathan Whirley (Christopher Plummer) - Dragnet (1987 movie)

Bishops

 * "The Baby-Eating Bishop of Bath and Wells" - Blackadder II TV series
 * Henry Brougham - The Bishop's Wife
 * Beatrice Congreve - The Book of Daniel TV Series
 * "The Episcopal Ghost" - The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis
 * Bishop Grantly - Chronicles of Barsetshire series of novels by Anthony Trollope
 * Bishop Proudie - Chronicles of Barsetshire series of novels by Anthony Trollope
 * Bertram Webster - The Book of Daniel TV Series

Baptist Ministers

 * Chaplain Captain Albert T. Tappman - Catch-22, novel by Joseph Heller

Congregationalist Ministers

 * Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale - The Scarlet Letter
 * Abner Hale - Hawaii novel & movie

Lutheran Pastors

 * Pastor Ingqvist (Lake Wobegon Lutheran Church) - A Prairie Home Companion

Methodist Ministers

 * Chaplain James J. Banquette - the man impersonated by adult bookstore janitor Miles Derry on a US Navy ship in One of the Guys, novel by Robert Clark Young
 * Rev. Karen Stroup - King of the Hill
 * Brother Justin Crowe - Carnivàle
 * Reverend Norman Balthus - Carnivàle
 * Bishop Charles McNaughton - Carnivàle

Presbyterian Ministers

 * Rev. Macpherson - Local Hero
 * Rev. I.M. Jolly - Scotch and Wry

Non-denominational/Other/Unspecified Protestant

 * Marvin O. Bagman - Good Omens
 * Derrial Book, Shepard - Firefly
 * Caleb - Buffy the Vampire Slayer
 * Chapel the Evergreen - Trigun
 * Reverend Robert Alden (Dabbs Greer) - Little House on the Prairie
 * Reverend Jimmy Lee Farnsworth (R. Lee Ermey) - Fletch Lives
 * Reverend Felcher - All in the Family TV series
 * Rev. Aaron Gilstrom (Ozzy Osbourne) - Trick or Treat (1986)
 * Ivan Isaacs - Priest manga
 * Billy Kosch - The Müller-Fokker Effect
 * Reverend Timothy Lovejoy - The Simpsons ("American Presbylutheran")
 * Jonas Nightengale - Leap of Faith (1992)
 * Ray Porter - Pass the Ammo (1988)
 * Pastor Richards - Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
 * Nicholas D. Wolfwood - Trigun

Unspecified/Pre-schism/Other religious workers

 * Sion Eltnam Atlasia - alchemist for the Catholic Church, Tsukihime and Melty Blood
 * Prester John - Christian priest-king of medieval legend