A Canticle for Leibowitz
Characters in A Canticle for Leibowitz
9 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Dom Paulo
Abbot of the abbey in the second part, who hosts the scholar Thon Taddeo and must weigh what the Memorabilia is for.
Brother Francis Gerard of Utah
The young novice of the first part, whose discovery of a fallout shelter and its relics sets the order's cause for canonisation in motion.
Dom Jethras Zerchi
Abbot in the third part, who opposes a government programme of euthanasia for irradiated refugees as a second nuclear war approaches.
Antagonists
Hannegan
Mayor of Texarkana, whose ambitions for conquest shadow the second part.
Supporting characters
Thon Taddeo Pfardentrott
A secular scholar of the second part who comes to study the abbey's preserved Memorabilia.
Brother Kornhoer
The monk who builds a working electric lamp from the fragments the order has preserved.
Abbot Arkos
Abbot during the first part, wary of what Brother Francis's discovery will mean for the abbey.