List of Jesuits - F

F

  • Blessed Peter Faber, early companion of Ignatius of Loyola, co-founder of the Society of Jesus; missionary in Germany
  • HonorĂ© Fabri, the first to explain why the sky is blue
  • Jean-Charles de la Faille, first to determine the center of gravity of the sector of a circle
  • Leonard Feeney, ultra-conservative American theologian
  • Joseph M. Finotti, pastor of Saint Mary's parish in Alexandria, VA; pastor of Saint Ignatius parish in Oxon Hill, MD; librarian at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
  • Jean de Fontaney, missionary to China
  • Balthazar Francolini, attritionist professor at the Gregorian University who wrote Clericus Romanus Contra Nimium Rigorismum Munitus in 1707 against Jansenism.
  • Luis Frois, Portuguese missionary to Japan; author of a history of Japan

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