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The Most Famous

RELIGIOUS FIGURES from Slovenia

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This page contains a list of the greatest Slovene Religious Figures. The pantheon dataset contains 2,238 Religious Figures, 7 of which were born in Slovenia. This makes Slovenia the birth place of the 46th most number of Religious Figures behind Romania and Jordan.

Top 7

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Slovene Religious Figures of all time. This list of famous Slovene 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. Hemma of Gurk (980 - 1045)

With an HPI of 61.16, Hemma of Gurk is the most famous Slovene Religious Figure.  Her biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.

Hemma of Gurk (German: Hemma von Gurk; c. 995 – 27 June 1045), also called Emma of Gurk (Slovene: Ema Krška), was a noblewoman and founder of several churches and monasteries in the Duchy of Carinthia. Buried at Gurk Cathedral since 1174, she was beatified on 21 November 1287 and canonised on 5 January 1938 by Pope Pius XI. Her feast day is 27 June. Hemma is venerated as a saint by both the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church, and as patroness of the current Austrian state of Carinthia.

Photo of Primož Trubar

2. Primož Trubar (1508 - 1586)

With an HPI of 58.41, Primož Trubar is the 2nd most famous Slovene Religious Figure.  His biography has been translated into 33 different languages.

Primož Trubar or Primus Truber () (1508 – 28 June 1586) was a Slovene Protestant Reformer of the Lutheran tradition, mostly known as the author of the first Slovene language printed book, the founder and the first superintendent of the Protestant Church of the Duchy of Carniola, and for consolidating the Slovenian language. Trubar introduced The Reformation in Slovenia, leading the Austrian Habsburgs to wage the Counter-Reformation, which a small Protestant community survived. Trubar is a key figure of Slovenian history and in many aspects a major historical personality.

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3. Franc Rode (1934 - )

With an HPI of 55.00, Franc Rode is the 3rd most famous Slovene Religious Figure.  His biography has been translated into 22 different languages.

Franc Rode (or Rodé; born 23 September 1934) is a Slovenian cardinal of the Catholic Church. He is the prefect emeritus of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, having served as prefect from 2004 to 2011. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 2006.He was raised to the rank of cardinal-priest on 20 June 2016 by Pope Francis while retaining his titular church.

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4. Pier Paolo Vergerio (1498 - 1565)

With an HPI of 51.35, Pier Paolo Vergerio is the 4th most famous Slovene Religious Figure.  His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.

Pier Paolo Vergerio (c. 1498 – October 4, 1565), the Younger, was an Italian papal nuncio and later Protestant reformer.

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5. Jurij Dalmatin (1547 - 1589)

With an HPI of 50.41, Jurij Dalmatin is the 5th most famous Slovene Religious Figure.  His biography has been translated into 18 different languages.

Jurij Dalmatin (c. 1547 – 31 August 1589) was a Slovene Lutheran minister, reformer, writer and translator. He translated the complete Bible into Slovene.

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6. Aloysius Ambrozic (1930 - 2011)

With an HPI of 39.95, Aloysius Ambrozic is the 6th most famous Slovene Religious Figure.  His biography has been translated into 17 different languages.

Aloysius Matthew Ambrozic (born Alojzij Matej Ambrožič; January 27, 1930 – August 26, 2011) was a Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Toronto. He was made a cardinal on 21 February 1998.

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7. Lučka Kajfež Bogataj (1957 - )

With an HPI of 35.63, Lučka Kajfež Bogataj is the 7th most famous Slovene Religious Figure.  Her biography has been translated into 17 different languages.

Lučka Kajfež Bogataj is a Slovenian climatologist, specialist in agricultural meteorology.

Pantheon has 7 people classified as religious figures born between 980 and 1957. Of these 7, 2 (28.57%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living religious figures include Franc Rode and Lučka Kajfež Bogataj. The most famous deceased religious figures include Hemma of Gurk, Primož Trubar, and Pier Paolo Vergerio. As of April 2022, 3 new religious figures have been added to Pantheon including Hemma of Gurk, Pier Paolo Vergerio, and Lučka Kajfež Bogataj.

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