Uncle Abner (Melville Davisson Post and John L Suter)
Sister Agatha (Aimée and David Thurlo)
Sister Agnes (Alison Joseph)*
Sergeant Malcolm Ainslie (Arthur Hailey)
The Rev Claire Aldington (Isabelle Holland)*
Father Alfonso (N J Matthews)
Sister Ana (Panos Karnezis)
Father Ananda (Nick Wilgus)*
Rev Burke Anderson (Gary E Parker)*
Sister Angela (L E Chamberlain)
Soeur Angèle (Henry Catalan)
Father Anselm (William Brodrick)*
The Revd Callie Anson (Kate Charles)*
Father Antony (Donna Fletcher Crow)
The Archdeacons (C A Alington)
Simon Ark (Edward D Hoch)
Rev Harvey Ashe (Charles M Poore)
The Rev Charles Ashworth (Susan Howatch)*
Brother Athelstan (Paul Doherty/Harding)*
Soeur Auguste (Joanne Harris)
Dame Averilla (Barbara Reichmuth Geisler)
Canon Hubert Avril (Margery Allingham)*

Rev Hosea Ballou (Ernest Cassara)*
Ben Baltic (Fergus Hume)*
Father John Baptist (William Biersach)
Nicholas Barber (Barry Unsworth)*
Brother Barnabas (E M A Allison)*
Brother Bartholomew (David Manuel)*
Matthew Bartholomew (Susanna Gregory)
The Rev Matt Beck (Charles Meyer)*
The Rev Dr Simon Bede (Barbara Byfield)*
Benyamin Ben-Akiva (Kenneth Wishnia)*
Christine Bennett (Lee Harris)*
Brother Bernard (Catherine Jinks)
Rev Betsy Blessing (Beth Pattillo)
Rev Win Brady (William Kritlow)
Theodora Braithwaite (D M Greenwood)**
Father Joseph Bredder (Leonard Holton)
Mark Bredon (Ronald Knox)
Rev Adam Bridger (Alton Gansky)*
Father Brown (G K Chesterton)
Father Brown (Stephen Kendrick)*
The Rev Ebenezer Buckle (Nicholas Brady)
The Rev Martin Buell (Margaret Scherf)*
Bishop Burdock (Walter S Sheldon)
Father Brennan Burke (Anne Emery)
Rev James Burton (Cecil Murphey)
Pastor Hank Busche (Frank E Peretti)

Brother Cadfael (Ellis Peters)*
Greg Cahill (Mark Andrew Olsen)
Sister Rose Callahan (Deborah Woodworth)
Don Camillo (Giovanni Guareschi)
The Rev Tobias Campion (Judith Cutler)*
The Rev Michael Cargrim (Fergus Hume)*
The Ven James Castleton (C A Alington)*
Sister Cecile (Winona Sullivan)*
Antoinette Charboneau (Aleta Boudreaux)
The Rev Rodney Chelmarsh (Mollie Hardwick)
The Rev Simon Cherry (Gale Pedrick)
The Rev Tom Christmas (C C Benison)
The Rev Ernest Clayton (Robert Barnard)*
Rabbi David Cohen (Sheyna Galyan)
Det Chris Coleman (Sr Christine Kresho)
Sister Conchita (G W Kent)
The Rev Lily Connor (Michelle Blake)
Rector James Coyte (R E Dugdall)
The Ven John Craggs (C A Alington)*
Father Crumlish (Alice Scanlan Reach)**

Daniel (the prophet) (unknown)
Father Frank Darragh (Thomas Keneally)
Reverend Dean (Hal White)
Peter Decker (Faye Kellerman)
Bascot de Marins (Maureen Ash)
The Rev John Dennis (George A Birmingham)
Father Tim Devin (Grace and Harold Johnson)
Father Roger Dowling (Ralph McInerny)*
Scott Doyle (D G Isch)
Father Michael Driscoll (David Compton)
Father Duffy (Dorothy Salisbury Davis)
Charles du Luc (Judith Rock)*
Rev Duncan Durward (Andrew Cheviot)

Montague Egg (Dorothy L Sayers)
Prioress Eleanor (Priscilla Royal)
Elizabeth Elliot (Irene Allen)*
Dom Erkenwald (Pauline King)
The Rev Peter Eversleigh (Richard Goyne)

Friar Felix Fabri (Sheri Holman)*
Faith Fairchild (Katherine Hall Page)*
Doran Fairweather (Mollie Hardwick)*
Giulia Falcone (Alice Loweecey)
The Rev Lisa Farthing (Rev Malcolm G Lorimer)
Rev Clare Fergusson (Julia Spencer-Fleming)*
Sister Fidelma (Peter Tremayne)**
Dr Mary Finney (Matthew Head)
The Rev Blake Fisher (Frederick Ramsay)*
Anne Fitzgerald (James Patterson)
Father Flaherty (Christy Kenneally)
Father Anthony Fowler (Juan Gómez-Jurado)
Dame Frevisse (Margaret Frazer)*
Sir Baldwin Furnshill (Michael Jecks)

Father Gus Gamble (Whit Masterson)
Rabbi Ruth Gold (Athol Dickson)
Sammy Golden (Jack Webb)
Father Goodwin (Frances Fyfield)
Sister Grace (Karina L Fabian)
Father Joe Gramel (John Paul Carinci)
Pastor Jerry Grant (Brian R Dill)
Rev William Granthom (D G Isch)
Mother Lavinia Grey (Kate Gallison)*
Father Grif (Dudley J Delffs)
Canon George Grindal (Barbara Whitehead)

Kate Hanlon (Diane Noble, Traci Depree etc)
Richard Harrison (Michael David Antony)*
The Rev Msgr (Nick) Hartery (Dennis Burke)*
The Rev Det Insp Blake Hartley (John Waddington-Feather)
Lady Lupin Hastings (Joan Coggin)
Father Jarvis Hedlam (Allen Whitman)
Sister Mary Helen (Sister Carol Anne O'Marie)*
Abbess Helewise (Alys Clare)*
Mother Maria Santa Hilda (Annamaria Alfieri)*
Hildegard, Abbess of Meaux (Cassandra Clark)
Rev Willa Hinshaw (Lynette Hall Hampton)
The Rev Lucas Holt (Charles Meyer)*
Felicity Howard (Donna Fletcher Crow)

The Inquisitor (Simon Quinn)
Lily Ivory (Juliet Blackwell)

The Rev Jabal Jarrett (Freda Bream)*
Father Mike Jerome (Ryne Douglas Pearson)
Det Sonchai Jitpleecheep (John Burdett)
Sister Joan (Veronica Black)*
Sisters John & Hyacinthe (Dorothy Gilman)*
John Jordan (Michael Lister)*
The Rev Otis Joy (Peter Lovesey)*
Brother Juniper (Thornton Wilder)*

Ibrahim Kahn (John Waddington-Feather)
Owen Keane (Terence Faherty)
Francis Xavier Killy (Simon Quinn)
The Rev Kathryn Koerney (Cristina Sumners)
Father Robert Koesler (William X Kienzle)**
Hayden Konig (Mark Schweizer)*

Rev Rob Vander Laan (Terry Hager)
Papa LaBas (Ishmael Reed)
The Rev Nick Lawrence (Deryn Lake)
Rina Lazarus (Faye Kellerman)
Cooper Lee (Jennifer Stanley)
The Rev Francis Leggatt (J S Fletcher)
Catherine LeVendeur (Sharan Newman)*
Rabbi Gabby Lewyn (Roger Herst)
Rev Eldon Littlejohn (Jan Maxwell)
Darcy Lott (Susan Dunlap)

"Mack" (William Paul Young)
Arn Magnusson (Jan Guillou)
Father Malachi (Diane Marqaurt Moore & Isabel Anders)*
Father Malecki (Ben Pastor)
Pastor Dev Malone (Lenora Worth)
Sister Margaret (Isaac Morris)
Henry Marlowe (Rev Malcolm G Lorimer)
Father Martin (David Bland)
Sister Maureen (Janet O'Daniel)
Father McMahon (Dorothy Salisbury Davis)*
Brother Michael (Susanna Gregory)
The Rev Charles Mickle (Henry Charlton Beck)
David Middleton-Brown (Kate Charles)
The Rev Margaret Moon (Aline Templeton)
Ralph Moon (D G Isch)
Det Insp Evan Morgan (Pauline King)
The Rev Faith Morgan (Martha Ockley)
Munpa (Alexandra David-Néel and Lama Yongden)*

Father Nil (Michel Benoît)
Father David Noone (Edward D Hoch)

Father John O'Malley (Margaret Coel)*
Father Fernando O'Neal (Paul Spike)
Maggie O'Neill (Madelyn Alt)
Ophelia and Abby (Shirley Damsgaard)*
Bridget O'Toole (Frank McConnell)*
The Rev Francis Oughterard (Suzette A Hill)*
Blair Owens (Terri Blackstock)

The Padre (Richard Goyne)
The Rev Richard Page (Maggie Hamand)*
Brother Paul (William D Montalbano)
Mother Paul (June Wright)
Father Ian Pearse (Jonathan Rabb)
Sister Pelagia (Boris Akunin)*
The Rev Dr Thomas Pemberton (E L Doctorow)
Petroc of Auneford (Pip Vaughan-Hughes)
Father Pfefferkorn (Florence B Weinberg)
Allen Mackenzie Phillips (Wm Paul Young)
Cindy Preston (Debbie Viguié)
Bishop Purcell (Thomas Patrick McMahon)

Father Quart (Arturo Pérez-Reverte)*
Ellie Quicke (Veronica Heley)

Rev C P Randollph (Charles Merrill Smith)**
Pastor Jordan Rau (Randall Arthur)
Rev Zeb Rawlins (William V Reynolds)
Bishop Francis X Regan (William F Love)
The Rev (Gale Pedrick)
Sister Ria (Thomas Eidson)*
Chaplain Jaime Richards (S L Linnea)
The Rev Michael Richey (Dale Osborn Rains)
Roger the Chapman (Kate Sedley)
Father Roland (Rev William L Doty)*
Sister Rose (Nik Morton)
Ruby, the Rabbi's Wife (Sharon Kahn)*
Lucius Rumsey (Christopher Leach)
Father Blackie Ryan (Andrew M Greeley)*

Burton Sands (Peter Lovesey)
Alexander Seaton (Shona MacLean)
The Rev Sebastian (James L Johnson)
The Rev David Sempill (John Buchan)
Father Tom Shaman ex-priest (Jon Trace)
Father Joseph Shanley (Jack Webb)
Matthew Shardlake (C J Sansom)*
Pastor Abby Shaw (Karl Fieldhouse)
Father David Sheridan (David J Miller)
Rev James Sherlock (Rev Malcolm G Lorimer)
Father Chris Sieb (Michael Schiefelbein)
Rabbi Jeremiah Silverman (Debbie Viguié)
Father Simeon (Domini Highsmith)
Sister Simon (Margaret Ann Hubbard)
Aggie Sloan-Wilcox (Emilie Richards)*
Rabbi David Small (Harry Kemelman)**
John Smyth (James R Coggins)*
Father Julian Snow (Louis Buss)
Det Chief Insp Southwell (Barbara Whitehead)
Suzy Spencer (Lis Howell)
Alan Starr (Jane Langton)
Pastor James Stone (John Paul Carinci)
Rosemary Stubbs (Clare Munnings)

Toom Taggart (Paul M Edwards)*
Canon Tallis (Madeleine L'Engle)
John Taylor (Thomas Brace Haughey)
Sister Mary Teresa (Monica Quill)*
Rev Dan Thompson (Dean Feldmeyer)*
Brother Timon (Phillip DePoy)
Rev Ziza Todd (David Willis McCullough)
Archdeacon Toft (Thurman Warriner)*
Father Mark Townsend (Father Brad Reynolds)*
The Rev Septimus Treloar (Stephen Chance)*
Pastor Caleb Troyer (P L Gaus)*
Reverend Tuckworth (David Holland)*
The Rev Max Tudor (G M Malliet)
Rev Calvin Turkstra (Christopher H Meehan)

Sister Ursula (Anthony Boucher as H H Holmes)

Carl Vanderveer (Larry Beinhart)
Vane (John Fuller)*

The Rev Merrily Watkins (Phil Rickman)*
Anne Waverly (Laurie R King)*
The Rev Dr Simon Weatherspoon (Michael Langford)*
Andrea West (Pamela Cranston)
Rev Harry Westerham (Victor Whitechurch)
Geoffrey Weston (Thomas Brace Haughey)
Brother William (Umberto Eco)*
Father Mike Wilson (D Keith Mano)
Rabbi Daniel Winter (Joseph Terlushkin)


Also included: SOME EXCEPTIONAL NON-CLERICAL DETECTIVES FROM THE PAST

John Appleby (Michael Innes)*
Miles Bredon (Ronald Knox)
Edward Candy characters*
Gervase Fen (Edmund Crispin)*
Michael Gilbert characters**
Mallett and Pettigrew (Cyril Hare)*
Charlie Mortdecai (Kyril Bonfiglioli)*

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and a list of AUTHORS

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