List of known Opus Dei members

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The list of well-known Opus Dei members includes personalities whose membership in Opus Dei has been verified and whose publication does not constitute a violation of personal rights. The listing is divided into categories and alphabetically.

Areas

Catholic Church

• Antonio Arregui Yarza - 2003–2015 Archbishop of Guayaquil , Ecuador
• Juan Ignacio Arrieta Ochoa de Chinchetru - Curia Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church
• Hugo Nicolás Barbaro - 2008 Bishop of San Roque de Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña, Argentina
• Klaus M. Becker - first numerarian of Opus Dei in Germany, Opus Dei priest and diocesan judge of the Archdiocese of Cologne
• Christoph Bockamp - 1996 Regional Vicar (Head) of Opus Dei in Germany
• Levi Bonatto - 2014 auxiliary bishop in Goiânia , Brazil
• Ignacio Carrasco de Paula - 2010–2016 Curia Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church as President of the Pontifical Academy for Life
• Fernando José Castro Aguayo - 2015 Bishop of Margarita , Venezuela
• Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne - 1999–2019 Archbishop of Lima / Peru, 2001 cardinal
• Alfonso Delgado Evers - 1994–2017 Archbishop of San Juan de Cuyo / Argentina
• Antonio Augusto Dias Duarte - 2005 auxiliary bishop in Rio de Janeiro / Brazil
• Javier Echevarría Rodríguez - 1994 prelate of Opus Dei and titular bishop of the Roman Catholic Church, † 2016
• Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer y Albás - founder of Opus Dei, † 1975, canonized in 2002
• Mariano Fazio Fernández - former Regional Vicar of Opus Dei in Argentina , Bolivia and Paraguay , since 2014 Vicar General of the Personal Prelature Opus Dei
• Vladimir Felzmann - Czech-English priest of Opus Dei from 1969 to 1982, 1971–1975 close associate of Escrivá, well-known dropout, since 1982 diocesan priest in London
• Jaime Rafael Fuentes Martín - 2010–2020 Bishop of Minas / Uruguay
• Ricardo Garcia Garcia - 2004 Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church, Prelate of Yauyos / Peru
• Luis Gleisner Wobbe - 2001–2014 auxiliary bishop in La Serena , Chile
• José Horacio Gómez Velasco - Archbishop of Los Angeles from Mexico , 2019 Chairman of the US Bishops' Conference
• Juan Ignacio González Errazuriz - 2003 Bishop of San Bernardo , Chile
• Montserrat Grases - Venerable Servant of God , † 1959
• Francisco de Guruceaga Iturriza - 1973–2001 Bishop of La Guaira , Venezuela, † 2012
• Ramón Herrando y Prat de la Riba - 2002–2019 regional vicar of Opus Dei in Spain
• Julián Herranz Casado - 1990 Curia Bishop, 2003–2007 Curia Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
• Philippe Jean-Charles Jourdan - 2005 Titular Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church, Apostolic Administrator of Estonia
• Marlies Kücking - Cologne native , longtime employee of Escrivá and head of the women's department at Opus Dei
• Klaus Küng - 1976–1989 regional vicar of Opus Dei in Austria , 1989–2004 Bishop of Feldkirch , 2004–2018 Bishop of St. Pölten
• Juan Ignacio Larrea Holguín - 1983 first military bishop in Ecuador , 1989–2003 Archbishop of Guayaquil , † 2006
• Stephen Lee Bun Sang - 2014 Auxiliary Bishop in Hong Kong , 2016 Bishop of Macau
• Carlos Lema Garcia - 2014 auxiliary bishop in São Paulo , Brazil
• Rafael Llano Cifuentes - 2004–2010 Bishop of Nova Friburgo / Brazil, † 2017
• Rogelio Ricardo Livieres Plano - since 2004 Bishop of Ciudad del Este , Paraguay, impeachment by Pope Francis in 2014 , † 2015
• Cesar Martinez - Priest of Opus Dei, 1985–1987 Vice- Official and 1987–1995 Official of the Diocese of Osnabrück , 2008 Subsidiary of the Opus Dei Parish of St. Pantaleon in Cologne
• Anthony Muheria - 2008 Bishop in Kitui , 2017 Archbishop in Nyeri , Kenya
• Fernando Ocáriz Braña - since 2017 prelate of Opus Dei
• Ignacio Maria de Orbegozo y Goicoechea - 1968–1998 Bishop of Chiclayo , Peru, † 1998
• Francisco Polti Santillán - 2006–2013 Bishop in Santiago del Estero / , Argentina
• Álvaro del Portillo y Diez de Sollano - Escrivá's successor as Opus Dei director, 1982 prelate of Opus Dei, 1990 titular bishop of the Roman Catholic Church, † 1994, beatified in 2014
• Hugo Eugenio Puccini Banfi - 1987–2014 bishop in Santa Marta , Colombia
• Jaume Pujol Balcells - 2004–2019 Archbishop of Tarragona , Spain
• Hans-Stephan Puhl (1941–1997) - head of the Asia department of the Misereor aid organization , publicist
• Adolfo Rodríguez Vidal - 1988–1994 Bishop of Los Angeles, Chile , † 2003
• German Rovira - Catalan priest, sent from Escrivá to Austria in the 1950s, has been involved in the development in Germany since 1961, 1977 founder of the International Mariological Working Group in Kevelaer (IMAK)
• Fernando Sáenz Lacalle - 1993–1997 military bishop in El Salvador , 1995–2008 archbishop in San Salvador
• Luis Sánchez-Moreno Lira - 1996–2003 Archbishop of Arequipa , Peru, † 2009
• Paul Toshihiro Sakai - 2018 Auxiliary Bishop in Osaka , Japan
• Rolf Thomas (1934-2016) - Aachener, 1958 one of the first German Opus Dei members, after ordination (1966) until 1992 prefect of studies at the Roman Opus Dei headquarters, member of the General Council and the permanent commission of Opus Dei in Rome, 1992 papal prelate, since 2000 active in Munich and Augsburg for the German Opus Dei.
• Johannes B. Torelló (1920–2011) - Catalan psychiatrist and priest of Opus Dei, regional vicar in Italy (from 1958) and Austria (1964–1976), long-time pastor at St. Peter's Church (Vienna)
• Juan Antonio Ugarte Pérez - 2003–2014 Archbishop of Cuzco, Peru
• Richard James Umbers - 2016 Auxiliary Bishop in Sydney , Australia

politics

• Pia Beckmann - German local politician ( CSU ), former Lord Mayor of Würzburg (2002–2008), previously head of the Catholic Family Association (1991–2002), resigned from Opus Dei
• Paola Binetti - Italian MP, member of the Unione di Centro
• Mariano Brito (1930–2014) - Uruguayan lawyer and politician, Minister of Defense of Uruguay 1990–1993
• Antonio Fontán (1923–2010) - Spanish journalist and 1977–1979 first President of the Spanish Senate after the Franco regime
• Ruth Kelly - 1997–2010 British politician ( Labor Party ), since 2015 Pro-Vice Chancellor of the Roman Catholic St. Mary's University in London-Twickenham
• Joaquín Lavín - Chilean politician ( UDI ), failed in 1999 as a presidential candidate against Ricardo Lagos , was minister under Sebastián Piñera
• Vincenz Liechtenstein (1950–2008) - Austrian politician ( ÖVP )
• Gregorio López-Brávo de Castro (1923–1985) - 1962 Spanish Minister of Industry under Franco
• Laureano López Rodó (1920–2000) - 1957 Secretary General in the Spanish State Chancellery under Franco , later Minister
• Kurt Malangré (1934–2018) - Lord Mayor ( CDU ) of Aachen (1973–1989) and MEP (1979–1999)
• Alberto Michelini - Italian politician, Forza Italia member and former MEP (1984–1994)
• Mariano Navarro Rubio (1913–2001) - 1957–1965 Spanish finance minister under Franco , 1965–1970 head of the Spanish central bank ( Banco de España )
• Antonio Pérez-Tenessa - senior Spanish government official, 1950 general secretary of Opus Dei, 1956 consiliar (regional vicar ) for Spain, excluded in 1965 due to political differences, † 2006
• Adolfo Suárez (1932–2014) - Spanish politician, was Prime Minister (1976–1981) during the transition to Spain
• Alberto Ullastres Calvo (1914–2001) - 1957–1965 Spanish trade minister under Franco , 1965–1976 first EU ambassador to Spain

science

• Peter Berglar (1919–1989) - German historian and Escrivá biographer
• Johannes Bonelli - medical ethicist , co-founder and director of the Vienna IMABE Institute , was a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life from 1996
• Jutta Burggraf (1952–2010) - German pedagogue and theologian, worked for a long time in Opus Dei training centers in Germany, most recently professor at the Opus Dei University in Pamplona
• Maria del Carmen Tapia (1925–2016) - Joined 1948, Escrivás Spanish Secretary and Head of the Women's Department, left 1966, professor of religion at the University of California
• Jorge Cervós-Navarro - Catalan neuropathologist at the Free University of Berlin , has been involved in setting up Opus Dei in Germany since 1953
• Johannes Grohe - priest of Opus Dei, German theologian and historian
• Scott Hahn - Steubenville University, United States professor of theology
• Friedrich Kummer - Austrian internist and university professor
• Guadalupe Ortiz de Landázuri Fernández de Heredia (1916–1975) - Spanish chemist, member of Opus Dei since 1944, beatified in 2019
• Alberto Moncada - Spanish sociologist and lawyer, joined the company in 1949, co-initiator of the corporate Opus Dei University of Piura / Peru , left in 1969, university professor and vice-president of the Spanish UNESCO office
• Stefan Mückl - German priest of Opus Dei, lawyer and university professor
• Raimon Panikkar (1918–2010) - British citizen, born in Barcelona, ​​entered Opus Dei in 1940, priest of Opus Dei in 1946, religious philosopher, resigned in 1965 and ostracized within Opus Dei
• Enrique H. Prat - bioethicist and business ethicist, co-founder and managing director of the Vienna IMABE Institute
• Martin Rhonheimer - Swiss priest of Opus Dei, philosopher and university professor
• Luis Romera - Priest of Opus Dei, 2008-2016 Rector of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome
• Klaus Steigleder - university professor for philosophy and well-known Opus Dei dropout and expert
• Hans Thomas - long-time manager of Opus Dei in Germany, head of the Cologne Lindenthal Institute , managing director of the Munich Rhine-Danube Foundation and President of the Swiss Limmat Foundation (2004–2013)

Economy / trade

• Miguel Fisac († 2006) - Spanish architect, companion Escrivá in founding Opus Dei in 1936, resigned in 1955, important contemporary witness for the founding era
• Dora del Hoyo (1914–2004) - joined Opus Dei in 1944, Escrivá's housekeeper
• Martin Kastner - from the Graz trading dynasty Kastner & Öhler
• José María Ruiz Mateos (1931-2015) - President of Rumasa , joined Opus Dei in 1963
• César Ortiz-Echagüe Rubio - Spanish architect, Escrivá collaborator and managerial officer, 1984-1996 regional vicar (head) of Opus Dei in Germany
• Luis Valls Taberner (1926–2006) - numerary since 1945, president of the Spanish Banco Popular 1972 to 2004, main financier of Opus Dei and important financier of Pope John Paul II.
• Juan Vilá Reyes - 1969 President of the Matesa
• Gianmario Roveraro (1936–2006) - Italian professional athlete and banker, in 2003 one of the protagonists of the Parmalat scandal
• Isidoro Zorzano Ledesma (1992-1943) - Spanish venerable servant of God , one of the first Opus Dei members in 1930, engineer
• Antonio Doubt (1938–1989) - Swiss venerable servant of God , joined Opus Dei in 1962, initiator and executive member of the Limmat Foundation

Journalism

• Greg Burke - American journalist, Vatican communications advisor since 2012, Holy See press secretary from 2016 to 2018
• Rafael Calvo Serer (1916–1988) - Spanish publicist and editor, critic of the regime in the time of Franquism
• Susanne Kummer - Austrian journalist ( Die Presse , Kleine Zeitung ) and since 2014 press spokeswoman for Opus-Dei-Austria
• Jürgen Liminski - German journalist, until 2015 editor and presenter at Deutschlandfunk
• Joaquín Navarro-Valls (1936–2017) - Director of the Press Office of the Holy See from 1984 to 2006
• Stephan Schmidt (1962–2013) - German journalist, former editor of Wirtschaftswoche , 2006 to 2010 press spokesman for the Archdiocese of Cologne and editor-in-chief of the Cologne church newspaper

Sports

• Isaac Viciosa - Spanish athlete
• Luis Felipe Areta Sampériz - Spanish basketball player, ordained a priest in 1980

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Isabel de Armas Serra: Josemaría Escrivá y Pedro Arrupe, cara y cruz ¿de una misma iglesia? Instituto de Estudios Políticos para América Latina, Madrid 2008, ISBN 978-8-4897-4356-4 , pp. 258 f.