RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Adolfo Nicolás

1936 - 2020

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Adolfo Nicolás Pachón (29 April 1936 – 20 May 2020) was a Spanish Jesuit priest of the Catholic Church. He was the 30th Superior General of the Society of Jesus from 2008 to 2016. Before being elected Superior General, he worked primarily in Japan; he taught at Sophia University in Tokyo for twenty years and then headed educational institutions in Manila from 1978 to 1984 and in Tokyo from 1991 to 1993. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolfo Nicolás has received more than 394,484 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Adolfo Nicolás is the 1,766th most popular religious figure (down from 1,530th in 2019), the 907th most popular biography from Spain (down from 799th in 2019) and the 66th most popular Spanish Religious Figure.

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  • 390k

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  • 53.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Adolfo Nicolás ranks 1,766 out of 3,187. Before him are Carl Tanzler, Franciszek Macharski, Audomar, Dobri Dobrev, Geminianus, and Bezalel. After him are Manuel Clemente, Paul Augustin Mayer, Gil Álvarez Carrillo de Albornoz, Rabban Bar Sauma, Chrysostomos II of Cyprus, and Lorenzo Baldisseri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Adolfo Nicolás ranks 200. Before him are Valentín Paniagua, Polina Astakhova, Andrej Kvašňák, Philip Kaufman, Hugh Hudson, and Frederic Forrest. After him are Tony Musante, Trần Đức Lương, Šaban Bajramović, Carl, Duke of Württemberg, Mary Tyler Moore, and Metin Oktay. Among people deceased in 2020, Adolfo Nicolás ranks 191. Before him are Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, Terry Goodkind, Vittorio Gregotti, Fred Willard, Sonja Ziemann, and Pietro Anastasi. After him are Walid Muallem, Joachim Yhombi-Opango, Vladica Popović, Flavio Cotti, Branko Kostić, and Zeev Sternhell.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Adolfo Nicolás ranks 907 out of 3,355. Before him are Antonio Maura (1853), Enric Prat de la Riba (1870), Nieves Navarro (1938), Moses ibn Ezra (1060), Pau Claris i Casademunt (1586), and Juan Yagüe (1891). After him are Juan Martín Díez (1775), Gil Álvarez Carrillo de Albornoz (1310), Joan Segarra (1927), Gonzalo Queipo de Llano (1875), Rodrigo de Jerez (1350), and Francisco de Toledo (1515).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Spain

Among religious figures born in Spain, Adolfo Nicolás ranks 66. Before him are Bartolomé Carranza (1503), Antonio Cañizares Llovera (1945), Santos Abril y Castelló (1936), Julian of Toledo (642), Paschal Baylón (1540), and Antonio María Rouco Varela (1936). After him are Gil Álvarez Carrillo de Albornoz (1310), Fructuosus of Braga (601), Anselmo Lorenzo (1841), Abu Ishaq al-Shatibi (null), Lluís Martínez Sistach (1937), and Turibius of Mogrovejo (1538).

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