The Most Famous
RELIGIOUS FIGURES from Cuba
This page contains a list of the greatest Cuban Religious Figures. The pantheon dataset contains 2,238 Religious Figures, 2 of which were born in Cuba. This makes Cuba the birth place of the 92nd most number of Religious Figures behind Bangladesh and Luxembourg.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Cuban Religious Figures of all time. This list of famous Cuban Religious Figures is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino (1936 - 2019)
With an HPI of 50.96, Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino is the most famous Cuban Religious Figure. His biography has been translated into 23 different languages on wikipedia.
Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino (18 October 1936 – 26 July 2019) was a Cuban prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Havana from 1981 to 2016. He was appointed to the College of Cardinals in 1994, the second Cuban to hold that distinction.
2. Juan García Rodríguez (1948 - )
With an HPI of 47.48, Juan García Rodríguez is the 2nd most famous Cuban Religious Figure. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages.
Juan de la Caridad García Rodríguez (born 11 July 1948) is a Cuban prelate of the Catholic Church who has served as Archbishop of Havana since 26 April 2016. He previously served as an Auxiliary Bishop of Camagüey from 1997 to 2002 and then as archbishop of that diocese from 2002 to 2016. He is a past president of the Cuban Conference of Catholic Bishops. Pope Francis raised him to the rank of cardinal on 5 October 2019.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as religious figures born between 1936 and 1948. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living religious figures include Juan García Rodríguez. The most famous deceased religious figures include Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino.
