The Most Famous
RELIGIOUS FIGURES from New Zealand
This page contains a list of the greatest New Zealander Religious Figures. The pantheon dataset contains 2,238 Religious Figures, 2 of which were born in New Zealand. This makes New Zealand the birth place of the 99th most number of Religious Figures behind Mauritius and Ghana.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary New Zealander Religious Figures of all time. This list of famous New Zealander Religious Figures is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Thomas Williams (1930 - 2023)
With an HPI of 49.14, Thomas Williams is the most famous New Zealander Religious Figure. His biography has been translated into 20 different languages on wikipedia.
Thomas Stafford Williams (20 March 1930 – 22 December 2023) was a New Zealand cardinal in the Catholic Church and the fifth Archbishop of Wellington from 1979 to 2005.
2. John Dew (1948 - )
With an HPI of 40.88, John Dew is the 2nd most famous New Zealander Religious Figure. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages.
John Atcherley Dew (born 5 May 1948) is a New Zealand Roman Catholic bishop. He was the sixth Roman Catholic Archbishop of Wellington and the Metropolitan of New Zealand, serving from 2005 until 2023. He was also created a cardinal by Pope Francis in 2015.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as religious figures born between 1930 and 1948. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living religious figures include John Dew. The most famous deceased religious figures include Thomas Williams.
