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List of people beatified by Pope Francis

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Since his election in 2013, Pope Francis has authorized the beatification of 1,532 people, including two equipollent[clarification needed] beatifications. The names listed below are from the Holy See website and are listed by year, then date. The locations given are the locations of the beatification ceremonies, not necessarily the birthplaces or homelands of the beatified.

2013

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No. Name Date of Beatification Place of Beatification Presided by Feast Day
1. Cristobal of Saint Catherine 7 April 2013 Córdoba, Spain Cardinal Angelo Amato July 21
2. Luca Passi 13 April 2013 Venice, Italy April 18
3. Nicolò Rusca 21 April 2013 Sondrio, Italy September 4
4. Francisca de Paula de Jesus 4 May 2013 Baependi, Minas Gerais, Brazil June 14
5. Luigi Novarese 11 May 2013 Rome, Italy Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone July 20
6. Giuseppe Puglisi 25 May 2013 Palermo, Sicily, Italy Cardinal Salvatore De Giorgi October 21
7. Zofia Czeska-Maciejowska 9 June 2013 Kraków, Poland Cardinal Angelo Amato April 1
8. Małgorzata Szewczyk June 5
9. Odoardo Focherini 15 June 2013 Carpi, Modena, Italy June 6
10. Vladimir Ghika 31 August 2013 Bucharest, Romania May 16
10. Antonio Franco 2 September 2013 Santa Lucia del Mela, Messina, Italy September 2
11. Maria Bolognesi 7 September 2013 Rovigo, Italy January 30
12. José Gabriel del Rosario Brochero1 14 September 2013 Córdoba, Argentina January 26
13. Tommaso da Olera 21 September 2013 Bergamo, Italy May 3
14. Miroslav Bulešić 28 September 2013 Istria, Croatia August 24
15. Rolando Rivi 5 October 2013 Modena, Italy May 29
16. 522 Spanish Martyrs 13 October 2013 Tarragona, Spain November 6
17. István Sándor 19 October 2013 Budapest, Hungary June 8
18. Maria Theresia Bonzel 10 November 2013 Paderborn, Germany February 6

2014

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No. Name Date of Beatification Place of Beatification Presided by Feast Day
1. Maria Cristina of Savoy 25 January 2014 Naples, Italy Cardinal Angelo Amato January 31
2. Giuseppe Girotti 26 April 2014 Alba, Cuneo, Italy Cardinal Severino Poletto April 1
3. Anton Durcovici 17 May 2014 Iași, Romania Cardinal Angelo Amato December 20
4. Mario Vergara 24 May 2014 Aversa, Caserta, Italy May 24
5. Isidore Ngei Ko Lat
6. Maria Josefa Alhama y Valera 31 May 2014 Collevallenza, Perugia, Italy February 8
7. Paul Yun Ji-Chung & 123 Companions 16 August 2014 Seoul, South Korea Pope Francis May 29
8. Giovannina Franchi 20 September 2014 Como, Italy Cardinal Angelo Amato February 23
9. Álvaro del Portillo 27 September 2014 Madrid, Spain May 12
10. Teresa Demjanovich 4 October 2014 Newark, New Jersey, United States May 8
11. Francesco Zirano 12 October 2014 Sassari, Italy January 29
12. Pope Paul VI2 19 October 2014 Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City Pope Francis May 29
13. Assunta Marchetti 25 October 2014 São Paulo, Brazil Cardinal Angelo Amato July 1
14. Pedro Asúa Mendía 1 November 2014 Vitoria, Spain August 29

2015

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No. Name Date of Beatification Place of Beatification Presided by Feast Day
1. Marie-Élisabeth Turgeon 26 April 2015 Rimouski, Canada Cardinal Angelo Amato August 17
2. Luigi Bordino 2 May 2015 Turin, Italy August 25
3. Luigi Caburlotto 16 May 2015 Venice, Italy July 9
4. Óscar Romero2 23 May 2015 San Salvador, El Salvador March 24
5. Irene Stefani Nyeri, Kenya Cardinal Polycarp Pengo October 31
6. Louis-Édouard Cestac 31 May 2015 Bayonne, France Cardinal Angelo Amato March 27
7. Flaviano Michele Melki 29 August 2015 Harissa, Lebanon August 29
8. Maria Dolores Oller Angelats & 2 Companions 5 September 2015 Girona, Spain August 30
9. Benedict Daswa 13 September 2015 Limpopo, South Africa February 1
10. Pio Alberto del Corona 19 September 2015 San Miniato, Italy September 19
11. Ludwika Szczęsna 27 September 2015 Kraków, Poland February 7
12. Julián Heredia Zubía & 17 Companions 3 October 2015 Santander, Spain December 4
13. Maria Teresa Casini 31 October 2015 Frascati, Italy April 3
14. Francisco de Paula Victor 14 November 2015 Três Pontas, Minas Gerais, Brazil September 23
15. Frederic Tarrés Puigpelat & 25 Companions 21 November 2015 Barcelona, Spain November 6
16. Michał Tomaszek 5 December 2015 Chimbote, Peru June 7 (Tomaszek & Strzałkowski)
17. Zbigniew Adam Strzałkowski
18. Alessandro Dordi August 25 (Dordi)

2016

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No. Name Date of Beatification Place of Beatification Presided by Feast Day
1. Valentín Palencia Marquina & 4 Companions 23 April 2016 Burgos, Spain Cardinal Angelo Amato January 15
2. Francesco Maria Greco 21 May 2016 Cosenza, Italy January 13
3. Giacomo Abbondo 11 June 2016 Vercelli, Italy February 9
4. Carolina Santocanale3 12 June 2016 Monreale, Italy January 27
5. Giulia Crostarosa 18 June 2016 Foggia, Italy September 11
6. María Antonia de Paz y Figueroa4 27 August 2016 Santiago del Estero, Argentina March 7
7. Władysław Bukowiński 11 September 2016 Karaganda, Kazakhstan June 20
8. Elisabetta Sanna Porcu 17 September 2016 Codrongianos, Italy February 17
9. Engelmar Unzeitig 24 September 2016 Würzburg, Germany March 2
10. Genaro Fueyo Castañon & 3 Companions 8 October 2016 Oviedo, Spain October 21
11. José Antón Gómez & 3 Companions 29 October 2016 Madrid, Spain September 25
12. Nikollë Prennushi & 37 Companions 5 November 2016 Shkodër, Albania November 5
13. Marie-Eugène de l'Enfant-Jésus 19 November 2016 Avignon, France February 4
14. Joseph Thạo Tiến and 16 Companions 11 December 2016 Vientiene, Laos Cardinal Orlando Quevedo December 16

2017

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No. Name Date of Beatification Place of Beatification Presided by Feast Day
1. Takayama Ukon 7 February 2017 Osaka, Japan Cardinal Angelo Amato February 3
2. Josef Mayr-Nusser 18 March 2017 Bolzano, Italy October 3
3. José Álvarez-Benavides de la Torre & 114 Companions 25 March 2017 Almería, Spain November 6
4. Louis-Antoine-Rose Ormières Lacase 22 April 2017 Oviedo, Spain January 16
5. Leopoldina Naudet 29 April 2017 Verona, Italy August 17
6. Antonio Arribas Hortigüela & 6 Companions 6 May 2017 Girona, Spain November 6
7. John Sullivan 13 May 2017 Dublin, Ireland May 8
8. Itala Mela 10 June 2017 La Spezia, Italy April 29
9. Teofilius Matulionis 25 June 2017 Vilnius, Lithuania June 14
10. Jesús Emilio Jaramillo Monsalve 8 September 2017 Villavicencio, Colombia Pope Francis October 3
11. Pedro María Ramírez Ramos April 10
12. Stanley Francis Rother 23 September 2017 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States Cardinal Angelo Amato July 28
13. Titus Zeman 30 September 2017 Bratislava-Petržalka, Slovakia January 8
14. Giuseppe Antonio Migliavacca 7 October 2017 Milan, Italy December 10
15. Mateo Casals Mas & 108 Companions 21 October 2017 Barcelona, Spain February 1
16. Giovanni Schiavo 28 October 2017 Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil January 27
17. Mariam Vattalil 4 November 2017 Indore, India February 25
18. Vicenç Queralt Lloret & 20 Comapanions 11 November 2017 Carabanchel, Madrid, Spain November 6
19. José Maria Fernández Sánchez & 38 Companions
20. Solanus Casey 18 November 2017 Detroit, Michigan, United States July 30
21. Saturnina Rodríguez de Zavalía 25 November 2017 Córdoba, Argentina November 27

2018

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No. Name Date of Beatification Place of Beatification Presided by Feast Day
1. Teresio Olivelli 3 February 2018 Vigevano, Italy Cardinal Angelo Amato January 16
2. Lucien Botovasoa 15 April 2018 Vohipeno, Madagascar Cardinal Maurice Piat April 14
3. Hanna Helena Chrzanowska 28 April 2018 Kraków, Poland Cardinal Angelo Amato April 29
4. János Brenner 1 May 2018 Szombathely, Hungary December 15
5. Clara Fey 5 May 2018 Aachen, Germany May 8
6. Leonella Sgorbati 26 May 2018 Piacenza, Italy September 17
7. Maria Gargani 2 June 2018 Naples, Italy May 24
8. Adèle de Batz de Trenquelléon 10 June 2018 Agen, France January 10
9. Carmen Elena Rendiles Martínez 16 June 2018 Caracas, Venezuela May 9
10. María Guggiari Echeverría 23 June 2018 Barrio Obrero, Asunción, Paraguay April 28
11. Anna Kolesárová 1 September 2018 Košice, Slovakia Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu November 20 (Archdiocese of Košice)
November 22
12. Alphonse-Marie Eppinger 9 September 2018 Strasbourg, France September 9
13. Veronica Antal 22 September 2018 Nisiporești, Romania August 24
14. Jean-Baptiste Fouque 30 September 2018 Marseille, France December 5
15. Tiburcio Arnáiz Muñoz 20 October 2018 Málaga, Spain July 18
16. Marcello Maruzzo 27 October 2018 Izabal, Guatemala July 1
17. Luis Navarro
18. Clelia Merloni 3 November 2018 Rome, Italy November 20
18. Michał Giedroyć 7 November 2018 Vatican City (equipollent beatification) Pope Francis May 4
19. Teodoro Illera del Olmo & 15 Companions 10 November 2018 Barcelona, Spain Giovanni Angelo Becciu November 6
20. Pierre Claverie & 18 Companions 8 December 2018 Oran, Algeria August 1 (Claverie)
May 8 (18 other martyrs)

2019

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No. Name Date of Beatification Place of Beatification Presided by Feast Day
1. Angel Cuartas Cristóbal & 8 Companions 9 March 2019 Oviedo, Spain Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu November 6
2. Mariano Mullerat i Soldevila 23 March 2019 Tarragona, Spain August 13
3. Carlos de Dios Murias 27 April 2019 La Rioja, Argentina July 17
4. Gabriel Longueville
5. Wenceslao Pedernera
6. Enrique Angelelli
7. María Concepción Cabrera Arias de Armida 4 May 2019 Mexico City, Mexico March 3
8. Guadalupe Ortiz de Landázuri Fernández de Heredia 18 May 2019 Madrid, Spain July 16
9. Vasile Aftenie 2 June 2019 Blaj, Romania Pope Francis May 10
10. Valeriu Traian Frentiu July 11
11. Ioan Suciu June 23
12. Tit Liviu Chinezu June 2
13. Ioan Balan
14. Alexandru Rusu
15. Iuliu Hossu May 28
16. Edvige Carboni 15 June 2019 Pozzomaggiore, Italy Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu February 17
17. María Isabel Lacaba Andia & 13 Companions 22 June 2019 Madrid, Spain November 6
18. Benedetta Bianchi Porro 14 September 2019 Forlì, Italy January 23
19. Richard Henkes 15 September 2019 Limburg, Germany Cardinal Kurt Koch February 21
20. Alfredo Cremonesi 19 October 2019 Crema, Italy Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu February 7
21. María Emilia Riquelme y Zayas 9 November 2019 Granada, Spain December 10
22. Victor Emilio Moscoso Cárdenas 16 November 2019 Riobamba, Ecuador May 4 (Ecuador)
November 23 (Jesuit order)
23. Donizetti Tavares de Lima 23 November 2019 Tambaú, Brazil June 16
24. James Alfred Miller 7 December 2019 Huehuetenango, Guatemala Cardinal José Luis Lacunza Maestrojuán February 13

2020

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No. Name Date of Beatification Place of Beatification Presided by Feast Day
1. Maria Velotti 26 September 2020 Naples, Italy Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe September 2
2. Olinto Marella 4 October 2020 Bologna, Italy Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi September 6
3. Carlo Acutis5 10 October 2020 Assisi, Italy Cardinal Agostino Vallini October 12
4. Michael Joseph McGivney 31 October 2020 Hartford, Connecticut, United States Cardinal Joseph Tobin August 13
5. Joan Roig i Diggle 7 November 2020 Barcelona, Spain Cardinal Juan José Omella September 11

2021

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No. Name Date of Beatification Place of Beatification Presided by Feast Day
1. Simèon-Marie Cardon & 5 Companions 17 April 2021 Veroli, Italy Cardinal Marcello Semeraro May 16
2. José María Gran Cirera & 9 Companions 23 April 2021 Santa Cruz del Quiché, Guatemala Cardinal Álvaro Leonel Ramazzini Imeri June 4
3. José Gregorio Hernández 30 April 2021 Caracas, Venezuela Archbishop Aldo Giordano October 26
4. Rosario Angelo Livatino 9 May 2021 Agrigento, Italy Cardinal Marcello Semeraro October 29
5. Johann Baptist Jordan 15 May 2021 Rome, Italy Cardinal Angelo De Donatis July 21
6. María Pilar Gullón Yturriaga & 2 Companions 29 May 2021 Astorga, Spain Cardinal Marcello Semeraro November 6
7. Maria Laura Mainetti 6 June 2021 Chiavenna, Italy June 6
8. Mamerto Esquiú 4 September 2021 Catamarca, Argentina Cardinal Luis Héctor Villalba May 11
9. Stefan Wyszyński 12 September 2021 Warsaw, Poland Cardinal Marcello Semeraro May 28
10. Róża Czacka May 19
11. Giovanni Fornasini 26 September 2021 Bologna, Italy October 13
12. Gaetana Tolomeo 3 October 2021 Catanzaro, Italy April 19
13. Mariantonia Samà May 27
14. Maria Llorença Llong 9 October 2021 Naples, Italy October 21
15. Francesco Mottola 10 October 2021 Tropea, Italy June 30
16. Juan Elías Medina & 126 Companions 16 October 2021 Córdoba, Spain November 6
17. Maria Ripamonti 23 October 2021 Brescia, Italy July 4
18. Sandra Sabattini 24 October 2021 Rimini, Italy May 4
19. Francisco Cástor Sojo López & 3 Companions 30 October 2021 Tortosa, Spain October 25
20. Benet Domènech Bonet & 2 Companions 6 November 2021 Manresa, Spain November 6
21. Jan Franciszek Macha 20 November 2021 Katowice, Poland December 2

2022

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No. Name Date of Beatification Place of Beatification Presided by Feast Day
1. Rutilio Grande García 22 January 2022 San Salvador, El Salvador Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez March 12
2. Manuel Solórzano
3. Nelson Lemus
4. Cosma Spessotto June 10
5. Cayetano Giménez Martín & 15 Companions 26 February 2022 Granada, Spain Cardinal Marcello Semeraro November 6
6. Armida Barelli 30 April 2022 Milan, Italy November 19
7. Mario Ciceri June 14
8. Antonia Luzmila Rivas López 7 May 2022 La Florida, Peru Cardinal Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo September 26
9. Pauline Jaricot 22 May 2022 Lyon, France Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle January 9
10. Luigi Lenzini 28 May 2022 Modena, Italy Cardinal Marcello Semeraro July 21
11. Leonard Melki 4 June 2022 Bqennaya, Lebanon June 10
12. Thomas Saleh
13. Maria Magdalena Jahn & 9 Companions 11 June 2022 Wrocław, Poland May 11
14. Angel Marina Álvarez & 19 Companions 18 June 2022 Almería, Spain November 6
15. Juan Aguilar Donis & 5 Companions
16. Isabel Sánchez Romero
17. Pedro Ortiz de Zárate 2 July 2022 San Ramón de la Nueva Orán, Argentina October 27
18. Giovanni Antonio Solinas
19. Johann Philipp Jeningen 16 July 2022 Ellwangen, Germany Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich February 8
20. Pope John Paul I 4 September 2022 Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City Pope Francis August 26
21. Maria Costanza Panas 9 October 2022 Fabriano, Italy Cardinal Marcello Semeraro May 28
22. Giuseppe Bernardi 16 October 2022 Boves, Italy September 19
23. Mario Ghibaudo
24. Vicente Nicasio Renuncio Toribio & 11 Companions 22 October 2022 Madrid, Spain November 6
25. Benigna Cardoso da Silva 24 October 2022 Crato, Brazil Cardinal Leonardo Ulrich Steiner October 24
26. Ana Julia Duque Heckner 29 October 2022 Medellín, Colombia Cardinal Marcello Semeraro July 24
27. Fiorina Cecchin 5 November 2022 Meru, Kenya Cardinal Antoine Kambanda November 13
28. Giuseppe Ambrosoli 20 November 2022 Kalongo, Uganda Archbishop Luigi Bianco July 28
29. Isabel Cristina Mrad Campos 10 December 2022 Barbacena, Brazil Cardinal Raymundo Damasceno Assis September 1

2023

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No. Name Date of Beatification Place of Beatification Presided by Feast Day
1. Henri-Mathieu Planchat & 4 Companions 22 April 2023 Paris, France Cardinal Marcello Semeraro May 26
2. Maria Concepción Barrecheguren García 6 May 2023 Granada, Spain May 13
3. Jacinto Vera Montevideo, Uruguay Cardinal Paulo Cezar Costa May 6
4. Elisabetta Martinez 25 June 2023 Lecce, Italy Cardinal Marcello Semeraro February 8
5. Józef and Wiktoria Ulma with Seven Children 10 September 2023 Markowa, Poland July 7
6. Giuseppe Beotti 30 September 2023 Piacenza, Italy July 20
7. Manuel González-Serna Rodríguez & 19 Companions 18 November 2023 Seville, Spain November 6
8. Eduardo Francisco Pironio 16 December 2023 Luján, Argentina Cardinal Fernando Vérgez Alzaga February 4

2024

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No. Name Date of Beatification Place of Beatification Presided by Feast Day
1. Guy de Montpellier 18 May 2024 Vatican City (equipollent beatification) Pope Francis February 7
2. Giuseppe Rossi 26 May 2024 Novara, Italy Cardinal Marcello Semeraro February 26
3. Michał Rapacz 15 June 2024 Kraków, Poland May 12
4. Esţfān al-Dwayhī 2 August 2024 Bkerké, Lebanon May 3
5. Luigi Carrara & 3 Companions 18 August 2024 Uvira, Democratic Republic of the Congo Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu November 28
6. Ján Havlík 31 August 2024 Šaštín-Stráže, Slovakia Cardinal Marcello Semeraro February 12
7. Moisés Lira Serafín 14 September 2024 Mexico City, Mexico June 25
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Upcoming beatifications

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2024

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29 September 2024, Brussels, Belgium

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9 November 2024, Seville, Spain

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16 November 2024, Shkodër, Albania

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17 November 2024, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

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2025

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12 January 2025, Rome, Italy

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26 April 2025, Veszprém, Hungary

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17 May 2025, Chambéry, France

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31 May 2025, Braniewo, Poland

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No indefinite date

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Postponed for reconsideration

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Notes

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^1 Later canonized on 16 October 2016.
^2 Later canonized on 14 October 2018.
^3 Later canonized on 15 May 2022.
^4 Later canonized on 11 February 2024.
^5 Later canonized in 2025.

References

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  1. ^ "Vatican postpones Fulton Sheen beatification". The Tablet. 4 December 2019. Retrieved 25 July 2024.
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