Simão Rodrigues de Azevedo, SJ (1510 – 15 June 1579), also known in English as Simon Rodericks, was a Portuguese Catholic priest[1] and one of the co-founders of the Society of Jesus.

A Portuguese nobleman, Rodrigues was one of the six very first companions[2] of Ignatius of Loyola at the University of Paris who took vows of poverty and chastity at the chapel of Montmartre, on the 15 August 1534.

The group of 'Friends in the Lord' will ultimately form the nucleus of the Society of Jesus,[3] approved in 1540 (in Regimini militantis ecclesiae).

After some years working under the direction of Ignatius in Italy, he was sent to Portugal, where his strong personality immediately attracted many young men to the Society and he became very influential at the royal court.

Rodrigues was recalcitrant and for several years sought to overthrow the decision against him, but his appeals to friends he had made in high places were unsuccessful.