The Most Famous

RELIGIOUS FIGURES from Mali

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This page contains a list of the greatest Malian Religious Figures. The pantheon dataset contains 3,187 Religious Figures, 1 of which were born in Mali. This makes Mali the birth place of the 116th most number of Religious Figures behind Hong Kong, and Cameroon.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Malian Religious Figures of all time. This list of famous Malian Religious Figures is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Jean Zerbo (b. 1943)

With an HPI of 53.16, Jean Zerbo is the most famous Malian Religious Figure.  His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.

Jean Zerbo (born 27 December 1943) is a Malian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Bamako from 1998 to 2024. Pope Francis raised him to the rank of cardinal on 28 June 2017. He is the first cardinal from Mali.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Malian religious figures born between 1943 and 1943. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Malian religious figures include Jean Zerbo.

Living Malian Religious Figures

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