CLERGY
Anglican/Episcopal curates/priests
The Rev Claire Aldington (Isabelle Holland)
The Revd Callie Anson (Kate Charles)
Father Antony (Donna Fletcher Crow)
The Archdeacons (C A Alington)
The Rev Dr Charles Ashworth (Susan Howatch)
Canon Hubert Avril (Margery Allingham)
The Rev Matt Beck (Charles Meyer)
The Rev Dr Simon Bede (Barbara Byfield)
The Rev Ebenezer Buckle (Nicholas Brady)
The Rev Martin Buell (Margaret Scherf)
The Rev Tobias Campion (Judith Cutler)
The Rev Michael Cargrim (Fergus Hume)
The Ven James Castleton (C A Alington)
he Rev Rodney Chelmarsh (Mollie Hardwick)
The Rev Simon Cherry (Gale Pedrick)
The Rev Tom Christmas (C C Benison)
The Rev Ernest Clayton (Robert Barnard)
The Rev Lily Connor (Michelle Blake)
Rector James Coyte (R E Dugdall)
The Ven John Craggs (C A Alington)
The Rev John Dennis (George A Birmingham)
The Rev Peter Eversleigh (Richard Goyne)
The Rev Lisa Farthing (Rev Malcolm G Lorimer)
Rev Clare Fergusson (Julia Spencer-Fleming)
The Rev Blake Fisher (Frederick Ramsay)
Mother Lavinia Grey (Kate Gallison)
Father Grif (Dudley J Delffs)
Canon George Grindal (Barbara Whitehead)
The Rev Det Insp Blake Hartley (John Waddington-Feather)
Father Jarvis Hedlam (Allen Whitman)
The Rev Lucas Holt (Charles Meyer)
The Rev Jabal Jarrett (Freda Bream)
The Rev Otis Joy (Peter Lovesey)
The Rev Kathryn Koerney (Cristina Sumners)
The Rev Nick Lawrence (Deryn Lake)
The Rev Francis Leggatt (J S Fletcher)
The Rev Charles Mickle (Henry Charlton Beck)
The Rev Margaret Moon (Aline Templeton)
The Rev Faith Morgan (Martha Ockley)
Father Fernando O'Neal (Paul Spike)
The Rev Francis Oughterard (Suzette A Hill)
The Padre (Richard Goyne)
The Rev Richard Page (Maggie Hamand)
The Rev Dr Thomas Pemberton (E L Doctorow)
The Rev Michael Richey (Dale Osborn Rains)
Canon Tallis (Madeleine L'Engle)
Rev Ziza Todd (David Willis McCullough)
Archdeacon Toft (Thurman Warriner)
The Rev Septimus Treloar (Stephen Chance)
Reverend Tuckworth (David Holland)
The Rev Max Tudor (G M Malliet)
The Rev Merrily Watkins (Phil Rickman)
The Rev Dr Simon Weatherspoon (Michael Langford)
The Rev Harry Westerham (Victor L Whitechurch)
Father Mike Wilson (D Keith Mano)

Other Protestant ministers
Rev Burke Anderson (Gary E Parker)
Rev Harvey Ashe (Charles M Poore)
Rev Hosea Ballou (Ernest Cassara)
Rev Betsy Blessing (Beth Pattillo)
Rev Win Brady (William Kritlow)
Rev Adam Bridger (Alton Gansky)
Rev James Burton (Cecil Murphey)
Pastor Hank Busche (Frank E Peretti)
Reverend Dean (Hal White)
Rev Duncan Durward (Andrew Cheviot)
Pastor Jerry Grant (Brian R Dill)
Rev William Granthom (D G Isch)
Rev Willa Hinshaw (Lynette Hall Hampton)
Rev Rob Vander Laan (Terry Hager)
Pastor Dev Malone (Lenora Worth)
Rev C P Randollph (Charles Merrill Smith)
Pastor Jordan Rau (Randall Arthur)
Rev Zeb Rawlins (William V Reynolds)
Chaplain Jaime Richards (S L Linnea)
The Rev Sebastian (James L Johnson)
The Rev David Sempill (John Buchan)
Pastor Abby Shaw (Karl Fieldhouse)
Rev James Sherlock (Rev Malcolm G Lorimer)
Pastor James Stone (John Paul Carinci)
Rosemary Stubbs (Clare Munnings)
Rev Dan Thompson (Dean Feldmeyer)
Rev Ziza Todd (David Willis McCullough)
Rev Calvin Turkstra (Christopher H Meehan)

Prison chaplain
John Jordan (Michael Lister)

Amish pastor
Pastor Caleb Troyer (P L Gaus)

Roman Catholic priests
Father Alfonso (N J Matthews)
Father John Baptist (William Biersach)
Father Joseph Bredder (Leonard Holton)
Father Brown (G K Chesterton)
Father Brown (Stephen Kendrick)
Bishop Burdock (Walter S Sheldon)
Father Brennan Burke (Anne Emery)
Don Camillo (Giovanni Guareschi)
Father Crumlish (Alice Scanlan Reach)
Father Frank Darragh (Thomas Keneally)
Father Tim Devin (Grace and Harold Johnson)
Father Roger Dowling (Ralph McInerny)
Father Michael Driscoll (David Compton)
Father Duffy (Dorothy Salisbury Davis)
Father Flaherty (Christy Kenneally)
Father Anthony Fowler (Juan Gómez-Jurado)
Father Gus Gamble (Whit Masterson)
Father Goodwin ( (Frances Fyfield)
Father Joe Gramel (John Paul Carinci)
The Rev Msgr (Nick) Hartery (Dennis Burke)
Father Mike Jerome (Ryne Douglas Pearson)
Father Robert Koesler (William X Kienzle)
Father McMahon (Dorothy Salisbury Davis)
Father Malecki (Ben Pastor)
Father Nil (Michel Benoît)
Father David Noone (Edward D Hoch)
Father John O'Malley (Margaret Coel)
Father Ian Pearse (Jonathan Rabb)
Father Pfefferkorn (Florence B Weinberg)
Bishop Purcell (Thomas Patrick McMahon)
Father Quart (Arturo Pérez-Reverte)
Bishop Francis X Regan (William F Love)
Father Roland (Rev William L Doty)
Father (later Bishop & Archbishop) Blackie Ryan (Andrew M Greeley)
Father Tom Shaman (Jon Trace)
Father Joseph Shanley (Jack Webb)
Father David Sheridan (David J Miller)
Father Chris Sieb (Michael Schiefelbein)
Father Julian Snow (Louis Buss)
Father Mark Townsend (Father Brad Reynolds)
Vane (John Fuller)

2000 year old Coptic priest?
Simon Ark (Edward D Hoch)

Ex-priests
Sergeant Malcolm Ainslie (Arthur Hailey)
Father Tom Shaman (Jon Trace)

Monks/friars (also see under Medieval/historical monks)
Father Anselm (William Brodrick)
Brother Bartholomew (David Manuel)
Dom Erkenwald (Pauline King)
Father Malachi (Diane Marqaurt Moore & Isabel Anders)
Brother Paul (William D Montalbano)

Medieval/historical monks/ex-monks/clergy/Templars
Brother Athelstan (Paul Doherty/Harding)
Nicholas Barber (Barry Unsworth)
Brother Barnabas (E M A Allison)
Matthew Bartholomew (Susanna Gregory)
Brother Bernard (Catherine Jinks)
Brother Cadfael (Ellis Peters)
Bascot de Marins (Maureen Ash)
Charles du Luc (Judith Rock)
Friar Felix Fabri (Sheri Holman)
Sir Baldwin Furnshill (Michael Jecks)
Brother Juniper (Thornton Wilder)
Arn Magnusson (Jan Guillou)
Father Martin (David Bland)
Brother Michael (Susanna Gregory)
Petroc of Auneford (Pip Vaughan-Hughes)
Roger the Chapman (Kate Sedley)
Father Simeon (Domini Highsmith)
Brother Timon (Phillip DePoy)
Brother William (Umberto Eco)

Nuns (also see under Medieval/historical nuns)
Sister Agatha (Aimée and David Thurlo)
Sister Agnes (Alison Joseph)
Sister Angela (L E Chamberlain)
Soeur Angèle (Henry Catalan)
Soeur Auguste (Joanne Harris)
Sister Cecile (Winona Sullivan)
Sister Conchita (G W Kent)
Sister Grace (Karina L Fabian)
Sister Joan (Veronica Black)
Sisters John & Hyacinthe (Dorothy Gilman)
Sister Margaret (Isaac Morris)
Sister Maureen (Janet O'Daniel)
Mother Paul (June Wright)
Sister Rose (Nik Morton)
Sister Simon (Margaret Ann Hubbard)
Sister Mary Theresa (Monica Quill)
Sister Ursula (Anthony Boucher as H H Holmes)

Medieval/historical nuns
Sister Ana (Panos Karnezis)
Soeur Angèle (Henry Catalan)
Dame Averilla (Barbara Reichmuth Geisler)
Prioress Eleanor (Priscilla Royal)
Sister Fidelma (Peter Tremayne)
Dame Frevisse (Margaret Frazer)
Abbess Helewise (Alys Clare)
Mother Maria Santa Hilda (Annamaria Alfieri)*
Hildegard, Abbess of Meaux (Cassandra Clark)
Catherine LeVendeur (Sharan Newman)
Sister Pelagia (Boris Akunin)
Sister Ria (Thomas Eidson)

Ex-nuns/retired nun
Christine Bennett (Lee Harris)
Giulia Falcone (Alice Loweecey)
Anne Fitzgerald (James Patterson)
Sister Mary Helen (Sister Carol Anne O'Marie)
Bridget O'Toole (Frank McConnell)

Missionaries
Ben Baltic (Fergus Hume)
Dr Mary Finney (Matthew Head)

CHURCH WORKERS
Choirmasters/organists
Hayden Konig (Mark Schweizer)
Alan Starr (Jane Langton)

Choir member
Ellie Quicke (Veronica Heley)

Church administrators
Theodora Braithwaite (D M Greenwood)
Richard Harrison (Michael David Antony)
John Smyth (James R Coggins)

Clergy wives
Doran Fairweather (Mollie Hardwick)
Kate Hanlon (Diane Noble, Traci Depree)
Faith Fairchild (Katherine Hall Page)
Lady Lupin Hastings (Joan Coggin)
Aggie Sloan-Wilcox (Emilie Richards)

Flower arranger
Suzy Spencer (Lis Howell)

Friend of God (actually of the actor who portrays Him)
Det Chief Insp Southwell (Barbara Whitehead)

Confirmation candidate
Burton Sands (Peter Lovesey)

Quaker Clerk of the Meeting
Elizabeth Elliot (Irene Allen)

Mormon
Toom Taggart (Paul M Edwards)

Others
Uncle Abner (Melville Davisson Post & John L Suter)
Mark Bredon (Ronald Knox)
Greg Cahill (Mark Andrew Olsen)
Det Chris Coleman (Sr Christine Kresho)
Scott Doyle (D G Isch)
Montague Egg (Dorothy L Sayers)
Felicity Howard (Donna Fletcher Crow)
The Inquisitor (Simon Quinn)
Owen Keane (Terence Faherty)
Francis Xavier Killy (Simon Quinn)
Cooper Lee (Jennifer Stanley)
Henry Marlowe (Rev Malcolm G Lorimer)
David Middleton-Brown (Kate Charles)
Ralph Moon (D G Isch)
Det Insp Evan Morgan (Pauline King)
Blair Owens (Terri Blackstock)
Allen Mackenzie Phillips (William Paul Young)
Cindy Preston (Debbie Viguié)
Lucius Rumsey (Christopher Leach)
Alexander Seaton (Shona MacLean)
Matthew Shardlake (C J Sansom)
John Taylor (Thomas Brace Haughey)
Carl Vanderveer (Larry Beinhart)
Anne Waverly (Laurie R King)
Andrea West (Pamela Cranston)
Geoffrey Weston (Thomas Brace Haughey)

Shaker Eldress
Sister Rose Callahan (Deborah Woodworth)

NON-CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS
Judaism
Benyamin Ben-Akiva (Kenneth Wishnia)
Rabbi David Cohen (Sheyna Galyan)
Daniel (the prophet) (unknown)
Rabbi Ruth Gold (Athol Dickson)
Sammy Golden (Jack Webb)
Rina Lazarus/Peter Decker (Faye Kellerman)
Rabbi Gabby Lewyn (Roger Herst)
Ruby, the Rabbi's Wife (Sharon Kahn)
Rabbi Jeremiah Silverman (Debbie Viguié)
Rabbi David Small (Harry Kemelman)
Rabbi Daniel Winter (Joseph Terlushkin)

Buddhism
Father Ananda (Nick Wilgus)
Det Sonchai Jitpleecheep (John Burdett)
Darcy Lott (Susan Dunlap)
Munpa (Alexandra David-Néel and Lama Yongden)

Islam
Ibrahim Kahn (John Waddington-Feather)

Voodoo/hoodoo
Papa LaBas (Ishmael Reed)

Witches (who mean well)
Lily Ivory (Juliet Blackwell)
Maggie O'Neill (Madelyn Alt)
Ophelia and Abby (Shirley Damsgaard)

Druid princess
Antoinette Charboneau (Aleta Boudreaux)

There is also a list of DETECTIVES IN ALHABETICAL ORDER
and a list of AUTHORS

Please see my INTRODUCTION for more information

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