Patron saints of places

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This is a list of patron saints of places by nation, region, and town/city. If a place is not listed here, it may be listed in Patronage of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Continents

Patron saints by regions
Continent Patron saint Notes
Asia Francis Xavier
Africa Moses the Black Dauphin Island

St.Edward

The Americas The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Guadalupe[1][2])
Joseph[3]
Innocent of Alaska
Isaac Jogues and companions
Herman of Alaska
Tikhon of Moscow
Raphael of Brooklyn
Europe Benedict of Nursia,[4][5]
Saints Cyril and Methodius,[6][7]
Bridget of Sweden,[4]
Catherine of Siena,[4]
Edith Stein[4]
Benedict of Nursia is the main Patron Saint,[8] the others are considered co-patrons.[9]

Bertelin of Stafford, formally Bethnei, circa early 6th Century[10]

Oceania Peter Chanel[11]

Regions

Region Patron saint
Asia Minor John the Apostle
Australasia The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady, Help of Christians[12])
Central Africa The Immaculate Heart of Mary[13]
North Africa (Libya, Tunisia) Cyprian of Carthage[13]
Scandinavia Ansgar[4]
South America Rose of Lima,[4]
West Indies Gertrude the Great
Gregory the Great

Countries

Country Patron saint
 Albania The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Good Counsel[4])
 Algeria Cyprian of Carthage[14]
 Andorra The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Meritxell)
 Angola The Immaculate Heart of Mary[4][14]
 Argentina The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Luján[4])
Francis Solanus
Blessed Laura Vicuña
Martin of Tours
 Armenia Gregory the Illuminator,[4]
Bartholomew the Apostle
Jude the Apostle
 Australia The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady, Help of Christians)[12]
Mary of the Cross MacKillop[12]
 Austria Joseph[14]
Colman of Stockerau[15]
Florian[14]
Koloman
Leopold the Good
Maurice[14]
Severinus of Noricum
Vergilius of Salzburg
 Barbados Andrew[16]
 Belarus Euphrosyne of Polotsk[17]
 Belgium Joseph[4]
 Bolivia The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Candelaria,[4] of Copacabana[4] and of Mount Carmel[18])
 Brazil The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Aparecida[4][18] and of the Immaculate Conception[4])
Peter of Alcantara[4]
Anthony of Padua
 Brittany Anne
Ivo of Kermartin
Seven Founder Saints (Corentin of Cornwall, Tudwal of Landreger, Pol-Aorelian of Leon, Padarn of Gwened, Samson of Dol, Brioc, and Malo[19]
 Bulgaria Cyril
John of Rila
 Canada Anne[4]
Jean de Brébeuf
Joseph
the North American Martyrs[1]
 Chile The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Mount Carmel)[4]
James the Greater[4]
Teresa of Los Andes
 China The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Sheshan)
Joseph[4]
Francis Xavier
 Colombia The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquirá)
Louis Bertrand[4]
Peter Claver[4]
Laura of Saint Catherine of Siena[4]
 Costa Rica The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of the Angels)
 Croatia Jerome
Cyril and Methodius
Joseph
 Cuba The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Charity[4])
 Cyprus Barnabas[20]
Lazarus
Marina the Martyr
 Czech Republic Adalbert of Prague
John of Nepomuk
Ludmila
Cyril and Methodius
Procopius
Sigismund
Wenceslas
Vitus
 Democratic Republic of Congo The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception[21])
 Denmark Ansgar[4]
Canute IV[4]
 Dominican Republic The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Altagracia)
Dominic[4]
 Ecuador The Sacred Heart of Jesus[4]
The Immaculate Heart of Mary[22]
Mary Anne de Paredes (Spanish: Mariana de Paredes y Flores)
 England George

(previously Edward, Edmund the Martyr and Gregory the Great until replaced around 1348 when the Order of the Garter was founded by King Edward III with George as its patron)

 Egypt Mark the Evangelist[22]
 El Salvador The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Peace[4])
 Equatorial Guinea The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception[4])

The Transfiguration of Jesus (Known as the Divine Savior Of The World)

 Ethiopia Frumentius
George[4]
 Finland Henry of Uppsala[4]
 France The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of the Assumption[4])
Michael
Denis
Martin of Tours
Louis IX
Joan of Arc[4]
Remi
Thérèse de Lisieux[4]
Petronilla
Radegund
 Georgia George[4]
Nino
 Germany Adalbert of Magdeburg
Ansgar,[23]
Boniface[4]
Bruno of Cologne
Peter Canisius
Kilian of Würzburg
Michael the Archangel[4]
Swithbert
George
Maurice
 Greece The Virgin Mary (as Panagia)
George
Andrew
Nicholas of Myra
Paul the Apostle[24]
 Guam The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Camarin)
 Guatemala James the Greater[24]
 Haiti The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Perpetual Succor[24])
 Honduras The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Suyapa[24])
 Hong Kong Immaculate Conception[25]
 Hungary The Virgin Mary
Adalbert of Prague
Astricus
Emeric of Hungary (HungarianImre)
Cyril[26]
Gerard Sagredo
Stephen of Hungary[4]
Elizabeth of Hungary
 Iceland Ansgar[27]
Thorlac Thorhallsson[4]
 India The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of the Assumption[4])
Thomas
Francis Xavier[27]
Joseph
 Indonesia Thomas
Francis Xavier
 Iran Maruthas
Ireland Patrick
Columba,[4]
Brigid of Kildare[28]
 Italy Catherine of Siena[4]
Francis of Assisi[4]
 Japan Peter Baptist,[4]
Joseph
Francis Xavier
 Jordan John the Baptist[27]
 Korea, South The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception)
Joseph[4]
 Lebanon The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Lebanon)
Barbara
 Lesotho The Immaculate Heart of Mary[4][22]
 Lithuania Casimir[29]
Cunigunde of Luxemburg[4]
John of Dukla
John of Kanty
George
 Luxembourg Cunigunde of Luxemburg[2][4]
Willibrord[4]
 Macedonia Clement of Ohrid
Cyril and Methodius
 Madagascar Vincent de Paul
 Malta The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of the Assumption)[4]
Paul the Apostle[4]
George
Agatha of Sicily
Pius V
Publius
 Mexico The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Guadalupe[4])
Philip of Jesus
Joseph[30]
 Moldova George
 Monaco Devota[31]
 Netherlands Plechelm
Willibrord[4]
 New Caledonia The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of the Assumption[11])
 New Zealand The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady, Help of Christians[4])
Joseph
 Nicaragua James the Greater[11]
 Nigeria Patrick[11]
 Norway Olaf II (Rex Perpetuus Norvegiae)[4]
Magnus of Orkney[11]
 Pakistan Francis Xavier[32]
 State of Palestine The Virgin (as Our Lady, Queen of Palestine)
George
 Papua New Guinea Michael the Archangel
 Paraguay The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Luján[32])
Martin of Tours[4]
 Peru Rose of Lima
Turibius of Mogroveio
Joseph[4]
 Philippines The Virgin Mary (as the Immaculate Conception, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Our Lady of Perpetual Help[4][32] and her Immaculate Heart[4])
Lorenzo Ruíz
Pedro Calungsod
Pudentiana
Rose of Lima
 Poland The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Częstochowa)[4]
Casimir[29]
Hyacinth
Kinga of Poland[4]
Adalbert of Prague[33]
John of Kanty
Stanislaus of Cracow[4]
 Portugal The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Fátima and as the Immaculate Conception)[4]
Anthony of Padua[4]
Gabriel
John de Brito
George[4]
James the Greater
 Puerto Rico The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Providence)
John the Baptist
 Romania John of Suceava
Andrew the Apostle
Nicetas of Remesiana
 Russia The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady the Sovereign)[34]
Basil the Great[35]
Casimir[35]
Vladimir I of Kiev
Joseph[35]
Thérèse de Lisieux[4]
George
Andrew the Apostle[36]
 San Marino Marinus
Nicholas of Myra[4][35]
 Scotland Andrew
Margaret
Columba
 Serbia Saint Sava[37][38]
 Slovakia The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Sorrows)[4]
Cyril and Methodius
 Slovenia Joseph
Cyril and Methodius
 Solomon Islands Michael the Archangel[39]
 South Africa Martin of Tours[4]
 Spain The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception)[39]
James the Greater (Spanish: Santiago)
Teresa of Ávila[4]
 Sri Lanka Lawrence[4]
Joseph Vaz
Thomas the Apostle
Blessed Virgin Mary as Our Lady of Lanka and Our Lady of Madhu
 Sudan Josephine Bakhita
 Sweden Brigit[40]
Eric IX[4]
Sigfrid of Sweden
  Switzerland Gall
Nicholas of Flue[41]
 Syria Barbara
 Tanzania The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception[40])
 Turkey John the Apostle[42]
George
 Ukraine Josaphat[43]
Andrew
Vladimir I of Kiev
 Uruguay The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of the Thirty-Three[44])
James the Less
Philip the Apostle[45]
 United States The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception[40])
 Venezuela The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Coromoto[40])
 Vietnam Joseph
 Wales David

Former states

Provinces

Country Province Patron saint
 Austria
 Upper Austria Florian
 Styria Joseph
 Carinthia Joseph
 Belgium  Hainaut Waltrude[50]
 Bosnia and Herzegovina  Republic of Srpska Stephen
 Brazil
 Acre Mary (as Our Lady of Immaculate Conception)
 Alagoas Mary (as Our Lady of Joy)
 Amapá Joseph
 Amazonas Mary (as Our Lady of Immaculate Conception)
 Bahia Mary (as Our Lady of Immaculate Conception)
 Ceará Joseph
 Distrito Federal John Bosco
 Espírito Santo Holy Spirit
 Goiás Anne
 Maranhão Saint Joseph (as Saint Joseph of Ribamar)
 Mato Grosso Jesus Christ (as Our Lord, the Good Jesus)
 Mato Grosso do Sul Mary, as Our Lady of the Abbey
 Minas Gerais Mary (as Our Lady of Piety)
 Pará Mary (as Our Lady of Nazareth)
 Paraíba Mary (as Our Lady of Snows)
 Paraná Mary (as Our Lady of Rocio)
 Pernambuco Mary (as Our Lady of Mount Carmel)
 Piauí Mary (as Our Lady of Victory)
 Rio de Janeiro Sebastian
 Rio Grande do Norte Blessed Martyrs of Cunhaú and Uruaçu
File:Bandeira do Rio Grande do Sul.svg Rio Grande do Sul Peter
 Rondônia Mary (as Our Lady of Nazareth)
 Roraima Mary (as Our Lady of Mount Carmel)
 Santa Catarina Catherine of Alexandria
 São Paulo Paul
 Sergipe Mary (as Our Lady of Immaculate Conception)
 Tocantins Mary (as Our Lady of Nativity)
 Canada  Newfoundland John the Baptist
 Nova Scotia Ninian
 Quebec Anne
John the Baptist
 Croatia Dalmatia Blaise
 Czech Republic  Bohemia Wenceslas, Ludmila, Vitus, Adalbert of Prague, Procopius, Sigismund of Burgundy, Norbert of Xanten, Joseph,[4] John of Nepomuk
 Moravia Cyril and Methodius,[4] Wenceslas
 France  Alsace Odile of Alsace
 Auvergne Gerald Aurillac
 Brittany Dedicated: Anna, Ivo of Kermartin; Seven Founders: Corentin of Cornwall, Tudwal of Landreger, Pol-Aorelian of Leon, Padarn of Gwened, Samson of Dol, Brioc, Malo.[19]
 Corsica Julia of Corsica, Devota, Alexander Sauli
 Île-de-France (Paris) Denis, Genevieve
 Lorraine Saint Nicholas, Joan of Arc
 Germany  Bavaria St. Mary Patroness of Bavaria (feast on May 1), St. Rupert and St. Emmeram (Bavaria proper), St. Kilian and St. Sebaldus (Franconia) and St. Hedwig of Andechs
 Saxony Willehad of Bremen
 Greece Chios Markella
Crete Saint Titus
Corfu Spyridon
Euboea Paraskevi of Rome
Laconia Nikon the Metanoeite
Rhodes Phanourios
Tinos Pelagia
Zakynthos Dionysios of Zakynthos
 Indonesia Borneo Francis Xavier
 Italy Cremona Homobonus
Sicily Andrew Avellino, Nicholas of Myra, Rosalia
 Lebanon North Lebanon Awtel
South Lebanon Christina of Bolsena
 Mexico Chihuahua Our Lady of La Soledad de Parral
Veracruz Rafael Guizar y Valencia
 Philippines Bicol Mary (as Our Lady of Peñafrancia)
Cagayan Mary (as Our Lady of Piat)
Western Visayas Mary (as Our Lady of Candelaria)
 Russia Kaliningrad Oblast Adalbert of Prague
 Serbia Vojvodina Cyril and Methodius
 Spain  Aragon Agathoclia, Braulio, George
 Andalusia John of Avila
Castile Emilian of Cogolla
 Canary Islands Mary (as Our Lady of Candelaria)
 Catalonia George, Virgin of Montserrat
 Euskadi Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Saint Prudence
 Galicia James the Greater,[4]
 United Kingdom  England George,[4] Edmund the Martyr, Edward the Confessor, Michael the Archangel[22]
Berkshire Birinus[citation needed]
Cornwall Piran, Michael the Archangel, Petroc[citation needed]
Devon Petroc, Nechtan
Dorset Wite
East Anglia Edmund the Martyr; Suffolk
Essex Cedd
The English Fens Guthlac[citation needed]
Herefordshire Dubricius[citation needed]
Kent Augustine of Canterbury
London Saint Paul
Mercia Chad of Mercia, Bertelin,[51] Alban
Northumbria Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, Oswald
Sussex Richard of Chichester, Wilfrid
Wessex Aldhelm, Swithun
West Riding of Yorkshire Wilfrid
Wiltshire Osmund
 Scotland Andrew the Apostle,[36] Margaret of Scotland, Columba,[4][27] Palladius
Barra Finbarr
Eigg Donnán
Galloway Ninian
Lennox Kessog
Orkney Islands Magnus
 Wales David of Wales[40] (Welsh: Dewi Sant)
Ergyng Dubricius (Dyfrig)
Wrexham Richard Gwyn
 Gibraltar (territory) Bernard of Clairvaux,[52] Mary (as Our Lady of Europe)
 Guernsey
(sovereign dependency)
Samson of Dol
 Isle of Man
(sovereign dependency)
Maughold
 Jersey
(sovereign dependency)
Helier

Cities and towns

Catherine of Siena writing

Australia

Austria

Belgium

Brazil

Canada

Colombia

Croatia

Cuba

Czech Republic

Denmark

Ecuador

Egypt

France

Germany

Greece

Haiti

Hungary

Ireland

Italy

Lebanon

Lithuania

Malta

Mexico

Montenegro

The Netherlands

Norway

Philippines

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Russia

Serbia

Slovakia

Slovenia

Spain

Sweden

Turkey

Ukraine

United Kingdom

United States

Archdioceses and dioceses

See also

References

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  2. 2.0 2.1 Walsh, p. 13.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Saint Joseph
  4. 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 4.14 4.15 4.16 4.17 4.18 4.19 4.20 4.21 4.22 4.23 4.24 4.25 4.26 4.27 4.28 4.29 4.30 4.31 4.32 4.33 4.34 4.35 4.36 4.37 4.38 4.39 4.40 4.41 4.42 4.43 4.44 4.45 4.46 4.47 4.48 4.49 4.50 4.51 4.52 4.53 4.54 4.55 4.56 4.57 4.58 4.59 4.60 4.61 4.62 4.63 4.64 4.65 4.66 4.67 4.68 4.69 4.70 4.71 4.72 4.73 4.74 4.75 4.76 4.77 4.78 4.79 Bunson, p. 214.
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  12. 12.0 12.1 12.2 https://www.sydneycatholic.org/news/latest_news/2013/2013124_1465.shtml
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  17. http://www.belarus.by/en/about-belarus/famous-belarusians/euphrosyne-of-polotsk
  18. 18.0 18.1 Walsh, p. 5.
  19. 19.0 19.1 List of religious figures of Brittany#The Seven Founder Saints of Brittany
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  21. 21.0 21.1 Walsh, p. 22.
  22. 22.0 22.1 22.2 22.3 Walsh, p. 9.
  23. 23.0 23.1 23.2 Walsh, p. 8.
  24. 24.0 24.1 24.2 24.3 Walsh, p. 11.
  25. http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/hong0.htm
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  27. 27.0 27.1 27.2 27.3 Walsh, p. 12.
  28. Holweck, p. 171.
  29. 29.0 29.1 Holweck, p. 182.
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  32. 32.0 32.1 32.2 32.3 Walsh, p. 16.
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  40. 40.0 40.1 40.2 40.3 40.4 Bunson, p. 215.
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  42. Catholic Saints
  43. Saint Josaphat Kuncevyc
  44. Virgin of the Thirty-Three, proclaimed patron saint of Uruguay by Pope John XXIII (Spanish)
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  54. Andrew the Apostle at saints.sqpn.com. Retrieved 26.March 2013
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  56. St. Berach at sqpn.com Retrieved 05.April 2013
  57. 57.0 57.1 Alexander of Bergamo at sqpn.com Retrieved 05.April 2013
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  59. 59.0 59.1 59.2 59.3 59.4 Holweck, p. 52.
  60. 60.0 60.1 60.2 Holweck, p. 20.
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