3. St. Anacletus (Cletus) (76-88) (total line is a single cell)
4. St. Clement I (88-97)
5. St. Evaristus (97-105)
I want to eliminate [3. St.] ..

Assuming data above is in A1 down, another way to try is to put in B1:

=MID(TRIM(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"St.","")),SEARCH(".",TRIM (SUBSTITUTE(A1,"St.","")))
+2,99)

Copy B1 down, then do a copy paste special values to overwrite col A,
and delete col B. Then do the Data Sort on col A
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