[I’ve updated the list. If you’ve contacted me and your not on the list, I’ll get you on there soon. Thanks for all the information. -TRJM]
Okay, this is just an initial list of people I know. I know that there are many more Reformed converts to Catholicism. I’ve missed a lot of them. I just ran down the ones I knew off the top of my head, either from the blogosphere or from personal contact.
By “Reformed” I don’t mean “Reformational” but those Christians deriving from the Calvinistic magisterial tradition: Continental Reformed, Presbyterian, etc.
If you know of any more, please leave the info in the comment’s box. They don’t need to be famous apologetics masters. I’m looking for everyone. If you don’t want to be included, let me know. If I have made an error, please tell me and I’ll correct this. (Reverts don’t count – just converts.)
I’d also like the dates of when you were received into the Church and if you went to a Reformed seminary.
I predict that this shall be a very interesting exercise.
- Avery Cardinal Dulles (PCUSA > Catholic Cardinal!)
- James Akin (PCA > Catholic;
Blog: www.jimmyakin.org) - John Henry Cardinal Newman (Calvinistic Anglican clergyman > Catholic Cardinal)
- Joy Marshall (PCA > Anglican > Catholic)
- Bryan Cross (Covenant Seminary grad; PCA > Anglican > Catholic in 2006;
Blog: http://principiumunitatis.blogspot.com) - Kenneth Howell (Westminster Seminary grad; PCA minister; Professor at Reformed Theological Seminary)
- Mary Moorman (PCA > Anglican > Catholic)
- Philip Bocock (PCA > Anglican > Catholic)
- Scott W. Hahn (Gordon Conwell grad; Professor at Chesapeake Theological Seminary; PCA minister > Catholic in 1986;
Web Site: http://www.salvationhistory.com) - Taylor R. Marshall (Westminster Seminary grad; PCA > Anglican priest > Catholic in 2006;
Blog: cantuar.blogspot.com) - Sean Dollahon (PCA > Catholic;
Blog: youarecephas.blogspot.com) - Tim A. Troutman (PCA > Catholic;
Blog: http://godfearin.blogspot.com) - Traci Bocock (PCA > Anglican > Catholic)
- Father James Hart (Westminster Seminary grad; Anglican priest > Catholic priest)
- Peter Kreeft (Dutch Reformed > Catholic;
Web Site: www.peterkreeft.com) - Tom Riello (PCA pastor > Catholic; Reformed Theological Seminary graduate)
- Andrew Preslar (OPC > Anglican seminarian > Byzantine Catholic)
- Neil Babcox (Presbyterian pastor > Catholic;
Web Site: www.cst-phl.com/061221/third.html) - Hamish Fraser (prominent writer; Scottish Presbyterian > Catholic, 1947)
- Marcus Grodi (Congregationalist pastor > PCUSA pastor > Catholic; apologist, president of The Coming Home Network, and host of EWTN’s “Journey Home” program)
- Henri de la Tour d’Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne (1611-1675; French Reformed Huguenot > Catholic in 1668; marshal of France, noted military leader in campaigns in France and Italy during the Thirty Years’ War and for his victory in Battle of Dunes)
- Saint John Ogilvie, S.J. (1579-1615; Scottish Presbyterian > Jesuit Catholic priest and martyr; canonized as a Saint by Pope Paul VI on October 17, 1976)
- Muriel Spark (Scottish Presbyterian > Catholic in 1954; made a Dame of the British Empire in 1993)
- Dale Vree (Dutch Reformed > Catholic; Editor of The New Oxford Review)
- Mike Terrell (PCUSA > PCA > CREC > Catholic in 2006;
Blog: http://miketerrell.blogspot.com) - Max Thurian (Swiss Reformed > Catholic in 1988; prominent continental Reformed theologian; Catholic priest)
- Brother Roger of Taize (Swiss Reformed > apparently considered to be in full communion with the Church by the early 1970s;
More info on Brother Roger: http://www.taize.fr/en_article6740.html) - John Bergsma (Christian Reformed pastor > Catholic; Calvin Seminary grad; theology prof at Franciscan U of Steubenville)
- Matt Yonke (CREC > OPC > Byzantine Catholic;
Blog: http://mattyonke.wordpress.com) - Father Frederick William Faber (The great hymn-writer converted in November 1845 from Calvinism by way of the Anglican Oxford movement)
- Tom Key (PCA > Catholic in 1988; Atlanta-based actor)
- Zach Brissett (PCA > Catholic in 2003)
- Walker Percy (PCUS > Catholic; novelist)
Notation Key to various Presbyterian schisms (or the “Split P’s”):
ARPC – Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (origin 1782)
PCUSA – Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (origin 1789)
PCUS – Presbyterian Church in the United States (Southern Civil War schism from PCUSA in 1861. It reunited with the PCUSA in 1983.)
OPC – Orthodox Presbyterian Church (schism from PCUSA in 1936)
BPC – Bible Presbyterian Church (schism from OPC in 1938)
PCA – Presbyterian Church in America (schism from PCUSA in 1973)
EPC – Evangelical Presbyterian Church (schism from PCUSA in 1981)
CREC – Confederation of Reformed Evangelical Churches (origin 1998)
If this is too confusing, try this:
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