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Converted to Catholicism in 2021, ordained a priest for the Anglican Ordinariate [275] Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima: Brazilian footballer; baptized as a Catholic in 2023. [276] Patricia Neal: won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Hud [277] Knut Ansgar Nelson: Danish-born convert who was a bishop of the Catholic Diocese of ...
Former Catholics or ex-Catholics are people who used to be Catholic for some time, but no longer identify as such. This includes both individuals who were at least nominally raised in the Roman Catholic faith, and individuals who converted to it in later life, both of whom later rejected and left it, or converted to other faiths (including the related non-Roman Catholic faiths).
Juan Andrés, Spanish Islamic scholar who converted to Catholicism and wrote a well known polemical work against Islam, the Confusión o confutación de la secta mahomética y del Alcorán; Juliana Awada (born 1974), Lebanese-Argentine businesswoman and First Lady of Argentina; Adi Kurdi – Indonesia actor convert to Catholic.
A list of well-known converts to various rites of the Catholic Church.See Category:Converts to Roman Catholicism for converts known to have become (Roman) Latin-rite Catholics or Category:Converts to Eastern Catholicism for converts known to have become various Eastern liturgical-rite Catholics.
Setsuzo Kotsuji – Born Shinto; converted to Presbyterian Christianity and then Judaism. [15] Debi Mazar – Originally Catholic; Actress who reportedly converted to Buddhism, Judaism, and briefly the Jehovah's Witnesses. [16] Ibrahim Njoya – Bamum people religion; back and forth conversions from Islam to Christianity. [17] Also created his ...
This is a list of notable Anglican bishops who converted to the Catholic Church.. A broad definition of 'Anglican' is employed here, including churches within the Anglican Communion, but also those of the Continuing Anglican movement which formed following controversy over various actual or proposed theological and doctrinal reforms, such as the ordination of women.
Joseph Pearce – anti-Catholic and agnostic British National Front member who became a devoted Catholic writer with a series on EWTN [56] [57] Charles Péguy – French poet, essayist, and editor; went from agnostic humanist to a pro-Republic Catholic [58] Sally Read – Eric Gregory Award-winning poet who converted to Catholicism [59]
C. List of converts to Christianity from Judaism; List of converts to Christianity from nontheism; List of converts to Christianity from paganism; List of converts to Christianity from Sikhism