The Most Famous
RELIGIOUS FIGURES from Macao
This page contains a list of the greatest Religious Figures. The pantheon dataset contains 2,238 Religious Figures, 1 of which were born in Macao. This makes Macao the birth place of the 128th most number of Religious Figures behind Cape Verde and Zambia.
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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Religious Figures of all time. This list of famous Religious Figures is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. José Lai (1946 - )
With an HPI of 45.63, José Lai is the most famous Religious Figure. Her biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
José Lai Hung-seng (Chinese: 黎鴻昇; born 14 January 1946, in Macau) is the Roman Catholic Bishop Emeritus of Macau, the first born in the diocese and the second Chinese bishop, the first being Domingos Lam. Lai was appointed on 23 January 2001 Coadjutor and succeeded on 30 June 2003. He was succeeded by Bishop Stephen Lee Bun-sang (Chinese: 李斌生) on 23 January 2016. Lai was born in Macau and attended St. Joseph's Seminary and Church before going to Portugal for further studies at Diocesan Seminary of Leiria from 1967 to 1971 and to Grottaferrata.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as religious figures born between 1946 and 1946. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living religious figures include José Lai.
