The Most Famous
RELIGIOUS FIGURES from Cape Verde
This page contains a list of the greatest Cape Verdian Religious Figures. The pantheon dataset contains 2,238 Religious Figures, 1 of which were born in Cape Verde. This makes Cape Verde the birth place of the 126th most number of Religious Figures behind Curaçao and Senegal.
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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Cape Verdian Religious Figures of all time. This list of famous Cape Verdian Religious Figures is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Arlindo Gomes Furtado (1949 - )
With an HPI of 46.14, Arlindo Gomes Furtado is the most famous Cape Verdian Religious Figure. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Arlindo Gomes Furtado CSSp (born 15 November 1949) is a Cape Verdean prelate of the Catholic Church who has been bishop of the Diocese of Santiago de Cabo Verde since 2009. He was the first bishop of the Diocese of Mindelo from 2004 to 2009. He studied for several years in Coimbra, Portugal, while preparing for his ordination, and several more as a professor there after becoming a priest. Pope Francis made him a cardinal in 2015, the first from Cape Verde.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as religious figures born between 1949 and 1949. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living religious figures include Arlindo Gomes Furtado. As of April 2022, 1 new religious figures have been added to Pantheon including Arlindo Gomes Furtado.
