page_title: List of Puerto Ricans
section_title: Clergy, religion
hierarchical_section_title: List of Puerto Ricans / Clergy, religion
caption_attribution_description: English: Monsenior Juan Alejo de Arizmendi (1760-1814)
context_page_description: This is a list of notable people from Puerto Rico which includes people who were born in Puerto Rico and people who are of full or partial Puerto Rican descent. The Government of Puerto Rico has been issuing "Certificates of Puerto Rican Citizenship" to anyone born in Puerto Rico or to anyone born outside of Puerto Rico with at least one parent who was born in Puerto Rico since 2007. Also included in the list are some long-term continental American and other residents and/or immigrants of other ethnic heritages who have made Puerto Rico their home and consider themselves to be Puerto Ricans.
  The list is divided into categories and, in some cases, sub-categories, which best describe the field for which the subject is most noted. Some categories such as "Actors, actresses, comedians and directors" are relative since a subject who is a comedian may also be an actor or director. In some cases a subject may be notable in more than one field, such as Luis A. Ferré, who is notable both as a former governor and as an industrialist. However, the custom is to place the subject's name under the category for which he/she is most noted.
context_section_description: Pre-20th century
  Juan Alejo de Arizmendi, first Puerto Rican Roman Catholic bishop
  Francisco Ayerra de Santa María, priest and poet
  St. Rose of Lima (Santa Rosa de Lima), her father was a Puerto Rican.
  Diego de Torres Vargas, first priest to write about the history of Puerto Rico
  20th century
  David Andrés Álvarez Velázquez, second native Puerto Rican to serve as bishop of the Diocese of Puerto Rico of the Episcopal Church
  Luis Aponte Martínez, Cardinal Archbishop Emeritus of San Juan; the only Puerto Rican cleric to date to be named cardinal.
  Yiye Ávila, Pentecostal leader
  Nicky Cruz, former gangster turned minister
  Sor  Isolina Ferré Aguayo, Roman Catholic nun awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom; sister of former governor Luis Ferré Aguayo
  Juanita García Peraza, founder of the "Mita" religion
  Roberto González Nieves, Archbishop of San Juan
  Jorge Raschke, outspoken Pentecostal pastor
  Francisco Reus Froylán, first native Puerto Rican bishop of the Episcopal Church
  Carlos Manuel Rodríguez Santiago, beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2001; first Puerto Rican and first Caribbean-born layperson to be beatified
  21st century
  José Luis de Jesús Miranda, controversial religious leader
  Bavi Edna Rivera, 12th woman and first Hispanic woman to become a bishop of the Episcopal Church
caption: Painting of Alejo de Arizmendi
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