The Most Famous

RELIGIOUS FIGURES from Tonga

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This page contains a list of the greatest Tongan Religious Figures. The pantheon dataset contains 3,187 Religious Figures, 1 of which were born in Tonga. This makes Tonga the birth place of the 138th most number of Religious Figures behind Kenya, and Papua New Guinea.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Tongan Religious Figures of all time. This list of famous Tongan 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. Soane Patita Paini Mafi (b. 1961)

With an HPI of 41.88, Soane Patita Paini Mafi is the most famous Tongan Religious Figure.  His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.

Soane Patita Paini Mafi (Tongan pronunciation: [soaːne patita paɪni mafi]) (born 19 December 1961) is the fourth Roman Catholic Bishop of Tonga. At the age of 53, on 14 February 2015, he was appointed by Pope Francis as the first ever cardinal from Tonga and he became on that date the youngest member of the College of Cardinals with the title of cardinal priest assigned to the titular church of Santa Paola Romana.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Tongan religious figures born between 1961 and 1961. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Tongan religious figures include Soane Patita Paini Mafi.

Living Tongan Religious Figures

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