The Most Famous
RELIGIOUS FIGURES from Kenya
This page contains a list of the greatest Kenyan Religious Figures. The pantheon dataset contains 2,238 Religious Figures, 1 of which were born in Kenya. This makes Kenya the birth place of the 136th most number of Religious Figures behind Tuvalu and Rwanda.
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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Kenyan Religious Figures of all time. This list of famous Kenyan Religious Figures is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. John Njue (1944 - )
With an HPI of 42.24, John Njue is the most famous Kenyan Religious Figure. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.
John Njue (born 1 January 1946) is a Kenyan Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was the fourth Archbishop of Nairobi from 2007 to 2021. He previously served as Coadjutor Archbishop of Nyeri from 2002 to 2007 and Bishop of Embu from 1986 to 2002. He was elevated to the rank of cardinal in 2007.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as religious figures born between 1944 and 1944. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living religious figures include John Njue.
