List of saints from Oceania

This page is a list of saints, blesseds, venerables, and Servants of God from Oceania, as recognized by the Roman Catholic Church. These people were born, died, or lived their religious life in any of the states or territories of Oceania.

Mother Mary of the Cross (Mary MacKillop), the first saint from Australia.

The region of Oceania was the last continent where the Catholic Church arrived. Consequently, it is the continent with the smallest number of saints.

Saints
  • Pierre-Louis-Marie Chanel (1803–1841), Professed Pries of the Society of Mary, Marist Missionaries; Martyr (Ain, France – Alo, Wallis and Futuna)
  • Jozef De Veuster (Father Damien) (1840–1889), Professed Priest of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (Picpus Fathers) (Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium – Molokai, Hawaii)
  • Maria Ellen MacKillop (Mary of the Cross) (1842 - 1909), Founder of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (New South Wales, Australia)
  • Pedro Calungsod (ca. 1654–1672), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Cebu; Martyr (Cebu, Philippines – Tumon, Guam)
  • Barbara Cope (Marianne) (1838–1918), Professed Religious of the Franciscan Sisters of Syracuse (Bergstrasse, Germany – Hawaii, U.S.)

Blesseds
  • Giovanni Battista Mazzucconi (1826–1855), Priest of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions; Martyr (Lecco, Italy – Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea)
    • Declared "Venerable": January 13, 1983
    • Beatified: February 19, 1984 by Pope John Paul II
  • Diego Luis de San Vitores (1627–1672), Professed Priest of the Jesuits; Martyr (Burgos, Spain – Tumon, Guam)
  • Peter To Rot (ca. 1912–1945), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Rabaul; Martyr (East New Britain, Papua New Guinea)

Venerables
  • Suzanne Aubert (Mary Joseph) (1835–1926), Founder of the Daughters of Our Lady of Compassion (Loire, France – Wellington, New Zealand)[1]
    • Declared "Venerable": December 1, 2016
  • Alain-Marie Guynot de Boismenu (1870–1953), Professed Priest of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart; Titular Archbishop of Claudipoli; Apostolic Vicar of Papua; Founder of the Handmaids of the Lord (Ille-et-Vilaine, France – Kairuku-Hiri, Papua New Guinea)
    • Declared "Venerable": April 15, 2014

Servants of God
  • Blaise Marmoiton (1812–1847), Professed Religious of the Society of Mary, Marist Missionaries; Martyr (Puy-de-Dôme, France – Province Nord, New Caledonia)
  • Caroline Jones Chisholm (1808–1877), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Canberra-Gourlburn (England, United Kingdom - New South Wales, Australia)
  • Adèle Euphrasie Barbier (Marie of the Heart of Jesus) (1829–1893), Founder of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions (Calvados, France – Wellington, New Zealand – Westbere, United Kingdom)
  • Missionary Martyrs of Baining (East New Britain, Papua New Guinea):
    • Matthäus Rascher (1868–1904), Professed Priest of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (Bamberg, Germany)
    • Henri Rutten (1873–1904), Professed Priest of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (Noord-Brabant, Netherlands)
    • Joseph Bley (Alois) (1865–1904), Professed Religious of the Trappists (Recklinghausen, Germany)
    • Cornelis Schellekens (Johannes) (1873–1904), Professed Religious of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (Noord-Brabant, Netherlands)
    • Eduard Plasschaert (Richard) (1871–1904), Professed Religious of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (Noord-Brabant, Netherlands)
    • Katharina Utsch (Anna) (1878–1904), Professed Religious of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Hiltrup (Altenkirchen, Germany)
    • Anna Schmitt (Sophia) (1877–1904), Professed Religious of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Hiltrup (Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, Germany)
    • Elisabeth Rath (Agatha) (1877–1904), Professed Religious of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Hiltrup (Neu-Ulm, Germany)
    • Wilhelmine Balka (Angela) (1875–1904), Professed Religious of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Hiltrup (Ternopil, Ukraine)
    • Katharina Holler (Agnes) (1881–1904), Professed Religious of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Hiltrup (Regen, Germany)
  • Eileen Rosaline O'Connor (1892–1921), Founder of the Society of Our Lady's Nurses for the Poor (Melbourne, Australia - New South Wales, Australia)
  • Joseph Dutton (1843–1931), Layperson of the Diocese of Honolulu; Member of the Secular Franciscans (Vermont, USA – Hawaii, USA)
  • Léon Lejeun (1876–1951), Professed Priest of the Society of Mary, Marist Missionaries (Neufchâteau, Belgium – Lomaiviti, Fiji)
  • Mary Glowrey (Mary of the Sacred Heart) (1887–1957), Professed Religious of the Society of Jesus Mary Joseph (Victoria, Australia - Bayalu Seeme, India)
  • Constance Helen Gladman (Mary Rosina) (1922–1964), Professed Religious of the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart; Martyr (Koroit, Australia - East New Britain, Papua New Guinea)

Candidates for sainthood
  • Helio Koa'eloa (ca. 1815–1846), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Honolulu (Maui, Hawaii)
  • Julian Tenison-Woods (1832-1889), Priest of the Archdiocese of Sydney; Cofounder of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart (London, England - Sydney, Australia)
  • Antoine Marie Garin (1810–1889), Professed Priest of the Society of Mary, Marist Missionaries (Saint-Rambert-en-Bugey, France – Nelson, New Zealand)
  • Ellen Whitty (Mary Vincent) (1819 - 1892), Professed Religious of the Religious Sisters of Mary (Wexford, Ireland - Queensland, Australia)
  • Thomas Poynton (1802-1892) and Mary Kennedy Poynton (1812-1891), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Wellington (Ireland-New Zealand)
  • Gulstan-Francois Ropert (1839–1903), Professed Priest of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (Picpus); Apostolic Vicar of the Hawaiian Islands; Titular Bishop of Panopolis (Brittany, France – Honolulu, Hawaii)
  • Joseph Augustine Canali, (1841-1915), Priest of the Archdiocese of Brisbane (Rome, Italy - Queensland, Australia)[2]
  • Heremia Te Wake (c. 1830–1918), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Auckland (Hokianga, New Zealand)
  • Ambrose Kanoealu'i Hutchison (ca. 1856–1932), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Honolulu (Maui, Hawaii)
  • Emmet McHardy (1904–1933), Professed Priest of the Society of Mary, Marist Missionaries (Taranaki – Wellington, New Zealand)
  • Leopoldina Burns (Maria Leopoldina) (1855–1942), Professed Religious of the Franciscan Sisters of Syracuse (New York, USA – Honolulu, Hawaii)
  • Francis Vernon Douglas (1910–1943), Priest of the Missionary Society of Saint Columban; Martyr (Wellington, New Zealand - Laguna, Philippines)[3][4]
  • Aloysius Schmitt (1909–1944), Priest of the Archdiocese of Dubuque (Iowa, USA – Pearl Harbor, Hawaii)
  • Jesus Baza Dueñas (1911–1944), Priest of the Archdiocese of Agana; Martyr (Agana, Guam – Mangilao, Guam)
  • Timothy Edward McGrath (1881-1977), Professed Priest of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart; Founder of the Society of Our Lady's Nurses for the Poor (Victoria, Australia - New South Wales, Australia)
  • Irene McCormack (1938-1991), Professed Religious of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart; Martyr (Western Australia, Australia - Junín, Peru)[5]
  • Bartholomew Augustine Santamaria (1915-1998), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Melbourne (Victoria, Australia)[6]
  • John Billings (1918-2007) and Evelyn Livingston Billings (1918-2010), Married Laypersons of the Archdiocese of Melbourne (Victoria, Australia)
  • Rosemary Goldie (1916-2010), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Sydney (New South Wales, Australia)
  • Patrick Dougherty (1931-2010), Bishop of Bathurst (New South Wales, Australia)

See also

References
  1. "Suzanne Aubert declared ‘venerable’", DoLC website (retrieved 5 April 2018)
  2. "Faith-filled Australian lives celebrated during Ad Limina visit" Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, 27 June 2019
  3. Father Francis Vernon Douglas Marist Messenger, 1 March 2020
  4. Cause for canonisation St Columbans Mission Society, 25 January 2019
  5. "Sister Irene McCormack: Australia's next Saint?". St Columbans Mission Society. Archived from the original on 2018-12-14. Retrieved 2018-12-14.
  6. Keane, Eamonn. "Lay Saint, B.A. Santamaria". AD2000. Archived from the original on 27 February 2015. Retrieved 27 February 2015.


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