Is a disembodied soul a person?

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No, a disembodied soul is not a person. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states:
The human person, created in the image of God, is a being at once corporeal and spiritual. The biblical account expresses this reality in symbolic language when it affirms that “then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.” Man, whole and entire, is therefore willed by God (CCC 362, emphasis added).
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In the New Testament, this is reflected in passages such as Hebrews 12:23, which states:
… and to the assembly of the first-born who are enrolled in heaven, and to a judge who is God of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect.
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A disembodied human soul is just that, a soul, which is why we call the souls in purgatory “the Holy Souls.” At the resurrection of the dead, when it is rejoined to its body, the human soul will again become a person.
 
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