The Most Famous
RELIGIOUS FIGURES from Guinea
This page contains a list of the greatest Guinean Religious Figures. The pantheon dataset contains 3,187 Religious Figures, 1 of which were born in Guinea. This makes Guinea the birth place of the 110th most number of Religious Figures behind Timor-Leste, and Azerbaijan.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Guinean Religious Figures of all time. This list of famous Guinean Religious Figures is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Robert Sarah (b. 1945)
With an HPI of 60.34, Robert Sarah is the most famous Guinean Religious Figure. His biography has been translated into 27 different languages on wikipedia.
Robert Sarah (French: [ʁɔbɛʁ saʁa]; born 15 June 1945) is a Guinean prelate of the Catholic Church. A cardinal since 20 November 2010, he was prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments from 23 November 2014 to 20 February 2021, and is currently a Cardinal. Sarah previously served as secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples under Pope John Paul II and president of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum under Pope Benedict XVI. Sarah has been a vocal advocate for the defense of traditional Catholic teaching on questions of sexual morality and the right to life, and in denouncing Islamic radicalism. He has called gender ideology and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) the "two radicalizations" that threaten the family, the former through divorce, same-sex marriage, and abortion, and the latter with child marriage, polygamy, and the subjugation of women. Sarah has been described as largely sympathetic to liturgical practices prior to the Second Vatican Council but also proposed that partisans of different liturgies learn from each other and seek a middle ground. In 2016, Sarah called for priests to face the same direction as the congregation while celebrating Mass (ad orientem), although facing the congregation had become the prevailing practice since the Second Vatican Council. His advice was seen by some as a direct challenge to Pope Francis, a claim that Sarah rejected. An advocate of traditional Catholic marriage doctrine in opposition to same-sex marriage, Sarah has denounced "Western homosexual and abortion ideologies", suggesting that both are of "demonic origin", and he has compared them to Nazism and Islamic terrorism. Sarah has been mentioned as papabile, a possible candidate for the papacy, by international media outlets such as Le Monde and by Catholic publications including Crux and the Catholic Herald.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Guinean religious figures born between 1945 and 1945. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Guinean religious figures include Robert Sarah.
