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Jorge Oscar Adur was an Argentine JEC leader who became an Assumptionist priest and Specialised Catholic Action chaplain and who was kidnapped and "disappeared."
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Joseph Wresinki was a French JOC leader, who became a priest and founded the ATD-Quart Monde movement to work with the "Third World in the First World."
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Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II) first met Cardijn on a visit to Belgium in 1947. They subsequently met several times in Rome. He was also close to Marcel Uylenbroeck and Pat Keegan.
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Derek Worlock was an English priest, who worked closely with the YCW. He was a peritus at Vatican II and later the archbishop of Liverpool.
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Abel Varzim was a Portuguese priest who studied in Belgium where he met Cardijn. Upon his return, he founded the Liga Operária Católica (Catholic Workers League).
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Marcel Uylenbroeck was Cardijn's successor as international chaplain of the JOC Internationale and later secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Laity.
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Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte was an assistant diocesan chaplain to the Montreal JOC. He was also a chaplain to the Jeunesse Indépendante Catholique Féminine (JICF) and Mouvement des Travailleurs Chrétiens.
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Rafael Tello was an Argentine JUC chaplain and founder of the "theology of the people."
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Dom José Tavora was a Brazilian JOC chaplain, who became known as the "bishop of the workers." At Vatican II, he worked closely with Cardijn.
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Scottish-born Fr Harry Stocks was a Canadian CSC missionary, who became a YCW chaplain in India.
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Archbishop Justin Simonds studied at Louvain where he became familiar with the JOC. As a bishop, he was appointed as Episcopal Chairman of the movement.
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Monsignor José Vicente Salazar Arias (1913-1962), was the founder of the JOC in Costa Rica.
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Victor Salandini was a Californian priest who was chaplain to the YCW and worked closely with Cesar Chavez.
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Mauro Rubio Repullés was a national chaplain of the Spanish JOC before becoming the bishop of Salamanca. He took part in Vatican II.
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Maurice Roy was a chaplain to the JOC as well as a cousin of Canadian JOC founder, Henri Roy. As a bishop and cardinal, he supported Cardijn at Vatican II and later became president of the Pontifical Councils of the Laity and Justice and Peace.
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Henri Roy was an Oblate of Mary Immaculate priest, who was also the founding chaplain of the Canadian JOC.
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A historian by training, Luc Roussel was national chaplain to the JOC Wallon and a Christian Worker Movement as well as to the CSC Christian Trade Union federation.
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Jean Rodhain was a French JOC chaplain, later a prisoner of war in Germany, and the founder of Secours catholique now Caritas France.
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Enrique Rau was a founding chaplain of the JOC in Argentina who also translated several of Cardijn's works into Spanish. As a bishop, he also participated in Vatican II.
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Albert Quirion was a pioneer chaplain of the JAC in Canada. In 1955, he was killed by hitchhikers he had picked up.
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Chicago priest, Fr Bill Quinn was a chaplain to the YCW, YCS and CFM movements before becoming executive secretary to the US Bishops Committee on Migrant Workers.
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Louis Putz was a German-born American CSC father, who learned the jocist method in France, and was a pioneer chaplain for the YCW, YCS and CFM movements in the USA.
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Ecuadorian Bishop Leonidas Proaño founded the JOC in Riobamba in 1954. Later he worked extensively with indigenous communities and was a Council Father at Vatican II.
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Mexican Jesuit Blessed Miguel Pro attended the first National Congress of the JOC in 1925 while studying in Belgium. He was later executed by the Mexican anti-clerical government on trumped up charges.
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Roger Poirier was a Canadian Oblate of Mary Immaculate, who became diocesan chaplain of the Montreal JOC and later the Quebec JOC.
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Gaston Pineau was a French priest, who was a chaplain to the JOC, JOCF, the Mouvement Populaire de Familles (MPF) and the Action Catholique Ouvrière (ACO).
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Jorge Parisotto was national chaplain to the Brazilian JOC during the dictatorship period of the 1960s and 1970s and later regional chaplain for the Americas.
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David Ogilvie-Forbes O.S.B. was an English Benedictine priest, who was also well-known chaplain to the YCW in Warrington.
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Hugh O'Sullivan was an Adelaide priest, who worked as Adelaide, Australian and International YCW chaplain.
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Yves de Montcheuil was a French Jesuit theologian, a JOC chaplain and a member of the French Resistance during World War II. He was captured and shot in August 1944.
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Carlos Mugica was an Argentinian Jesuit worker-priest, who was also a JEC chaplain. He was assassinated in 1974.
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Msgr Marvin Mottet, a former director of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, started his life of social action following his youthful experience of YCS as a student at St Ambrose University in Davenport, Ohio.
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Fr Ted Mitchinson was an English YCW chaplain who also worked with the movement in South Africa. He also translated the Fiévez-Meert biography of Cardijn into English.
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Jean Ménard was member of the Canadian JEC, who later became a missionary priest and JEC chaplain.
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Marcos McGrath was a CSC father, who became archbishop of Panama City. At Vatican II, he was presided over the Signs of the Times Sub-Commission, which adopted the See-Judge-Act method.
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Fr RV Mathias was chaplain to the Indian YCW and later to the International YCW.
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Jean Margéot was the founder of the JOC in Mauritius.
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Cardinal Joseph Malula was a JOC and Ligue Nationale de Travailleurs Chrétiens chaplin in the former Belgian Congo. As a bishop he took part in Vatican II and participated in the drafting of Gaudium et Spes.
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Fr Frank Lombard was the founding chaplain of the Melbourne and Australian YCWs.
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Louis-Joseph Lebret was a French Dominican priest, who founded the Jeunesse Maritime Chrétienne (JMC) on the JOC model, and later helped draft Pope Paul VI's encyclical Populorum Progressio.
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Bishop Manuel was a major promoter of the JOC and other Specialised Catholic Action movements and a close collaborator of Cardijn at Vatican II.
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Fr Eugene Langdale was a pioneer of Catholic social work in England, who translated many of Cardijn's writings into English.
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Robert Kothen was president of a study circle of the Jeunesse Syndicaliste before entering the seminary. As a priest, he became Cardijn's assistant responsible for international relations during the 1930s.
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John F. Kelly was a Melbourne priest, who discovered the JOC through his reading of French literature. He translated many articles into English and edited the YCW Leaders Bulletin for many years.
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Jean Jadot was a Belgian JEC chaplain, who later became a Vatican diplomat. He also collaborated with Cardijn during Vatican II.
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Alberto Hurtado was a Jesuit pioneer of Catholic Action in Chile, who studied at Louvain.
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François Houtart was a JOC chaplain and close collaborator of Cardijn and the movement. As a peritus at Vatican II, he prepared the first draft of the introductory statement on the situation of people in the world for Gaudium et Spes.
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Archbishop Denis Hurley was a disciple of Cardijn and a significant ally at Vatican II.
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Fr Joseph Ho was national chaplain to the Singapore YCW.
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A Specialised Catholic Action chaplain in Namur, Belgium, Charles-Marie Himmer became the bishop of Tournai and a prominent supporter of Cardijn at Vatican II.
