Nun

This page lists 1,418 biographies of nuns, covering lives from 550 BC to 2000. Featuring Barbara Doherty, Dolores Hart and Elena Kazimirtchak-Polonskaïa. Each profile gives life dates, nationality, education, positions held and a sourced, attributed account of the person's life.

People in this occupation

Ita Ford

1940 – 1980

Baptista Varani

1458 – 1527

Melanie von Nagel

1908 – 2006

Christina of Markyate

1097 – 1161

Apronia of Toul

Magdalena Maria Epstein

1875 – 1947

Maria Assunta Pallotta

1878 – 1905

Laura Motta

1919 – 2014

Trahamunda

Anne Montgomery

1926 – 2012

Agnes Haegens

1703 – 1788

Eugenia Logvinovna Lashnyukova

b. 1891

Mary Louise St. John

1943 – 2003

Emilia de San José

1858 – 1893

Adelaide, Abbess of Vilich

960 – 1015

Agnes of Jesus

1602 – 1634

Agrippina Fedorovna Chelyadnina

María del Carmen González Ramos

1834 – 1899

Ingeborg of Holstein

1396 – 1465

Barbora Žagarietė

1628 – 1648

Paula de Odivelas

1701 – 1768

Amalberga of Temse

741 – 772

Ruth Lautt

Anna Bertha Königsegg

1883 – 1948

Sister Irene

1823 – 1896

Archduchess Helena of Austria

1543 – 1574

Mary Juliana Hardman

1813 – 1884

Anna Salome of Manderscheid-Blankenheim

1628 – 1691

Hygeburg

730 – 778

Zofia Czeska

1584 – 1650

Mary Michel Boulus

1926 – 2012

Agnes II

1145 – 1203

Solveig Rafnsdóttir

1470 – 1563

María Vela y Cueto

1561 – 1614

Esmeralda Rego de Jesus Araujo

b. 1959

Jutta von Sponheim

1091 – 1136

Vulfetrude

640 – 669

Dominica Dipio

Marian Hughes

1817 – 1912

Anna Vsevolodovna of Kyiv

1001 – 1112

Dulce of León

1194 – 1248

Mary Elizabeth Lange

1784 – 1882

Anna of Bulgaria

900 – 1000

Marie-France Banc

1876 – 1965

Maria Hueber

1653 – 1705

Mary Boulding

1929 – 2009

Cordula von Schönau

Isabela de Rosis

1842 – 1911

St. Adeloga of Kitzingen

700 – 750

Theodora

815 – 867

Gertrude of Nivelles

626 – 659

Benedicta of Bjelbo

1250 – 1261

Ho Yuen Hoe

1908 – 2006

Maria Elena Berini

b. 1944

Kathleen Desautels

Elisabeth de Ranfaing

1592 – 1649

Adelindis von Buchau

735 – 800

Elizabeth Sander

1500 – 1607

Ann Joseph Morris

1847 – 1930

Cecilia Johansdotter of Sweden

1145 – 1193

Carmen Rendiles

1903 – 1977

Giulia Crostarosa

1696 – 1755

Mary Lovel

1564 – 1628

Ellen McKenna

1819 – 1883

María Emilia Riquelme

1847 – 1940

Blandine Merten

1883 – 1918

Elia di San Clemente

1901 – 1927

Beatrice of Ornacieux

1260 – 1303

Oda of Haldensleben

901 – 1023

Giovanna Scopelli

1439 – 1491

Maria Costanza Panas

1896 – 1963

Breage

Æbbe the Younger

800 – 870

Bertha of Artois

601 – 723

Urraca of Portugal

1148 – 1188

Maria Schininà

1844 – 1910

Branca of Portugal

1196 – 1240

Ghislaine Roquet

1926 – 2016

Teresa Chicaba

1676 – 1748

Marie-Catherine Huot

1791 – 1869

Áurea of San Millán

1043 – 1070

Katharine Egerton Warburton

1840 – 1923

Maria Domenica Mantovani

1862 – 1934

Cynthia L. Mahoney

1951 – 2006

Françoise d'Amboise

1427 – 1485

Giuseppina Nicoli

1863 – 1924

Eadburh of Bicester

AD 7 – 650

Lucia Khambang

1917 – 1940

Celia Deutsch

b. 1945

Harriet Monsell

1811 – 1883

Ghebbe Canter

1460 – 1516

Maria of Antioch

1145 – 1182

Helena of Sweden

b. 1130

Luigia Coccia

Bienvenue Bojani

1255 – 1292

Simonida

1294 – 1340

Elizabeth Lutton

1498 – 1500

Mary Margaret Funk

Gyanmati

b. 1934

Ivone Gebara

b. 1944