RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Alphonsus Liguori

1696 - 1787

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Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, CSsR (27 September 1696 – 1 August 1787) was an Italian Catholic bishop and saint, as well as a spiritual writer, composer, musician, artist, poet, lawyer, scholastic philosopher, and theologian. He founded the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, known as the Redemptorists, in November 1732. In 1762 he was appointed Bishop of Sant'Agata dei Goti. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alphonsus Liguori has received more than 613,893 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Alphonsus Liguori is the 476th most popular religious figure (up from 528th in 2019), the 550th most popular biography from Italy (up from 623rd in 2019) and the 216th most popular Italian Religious Figure.

Alphonsus Liguori is most famous for his book, The Glories of Mary.

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  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Alphonsus Liguori ranks 476 out of 3,187. Before him are Pope Eutychian, Uwais al-Qarani, Maya, Micah, Pope Stephen VIII, and Antipope Benedict XIII. After him are Thomas Becket, Anastasia of Sirmium, Pope John VI, Dominic Savio, Pope John IV, and Zaynab bint Khuzayma.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1696, Alphonsus Liguori ranks 4. Before him are Mahmud I, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, and Augustus III of Poland. After him are Abram Petrovich Gannibal, Maurice de Saxe, Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Johann Melchior Molter, Vakhushti of Kartli, and Francesca Cuzzoni. Among people deceased in 1787, Alphonsus Liguori ranks 4. Before him are Christoph Willibald Gluck, Leopold Mozart, and Roger Joseph Boscovich. After him are Louise of France, Carl Friedrich Abel, Pompeo Batoni, Şahin Giray, Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Charles, Prince of Soubise, Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau, and Johann Karl August Musäus.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Alphonsus Liguori ranks 550 out of 5,161. Before him are Caterina Sforza (1463), Filippino Lippi (1457), Pope Stephen VIII (900), Rodolfo Graziani (1882), Dionysius I of Syracuse (-430), and Ernesto Teodoro Moneta (1833). After him are Anastasia of Sirmium (281), Giulio Caccini (1551), Dominic Savio (1842), Aloysius Gonzaga (1568), Romano Prodi (1939), and Paolo Rossi (1956).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Italy

Among religious figures born in Italy, Alphonsus Liguori ranks 216. Before him are Pope Anterus (180), Pope John III (520), Pope John XIV (1000), Peter Lombard (1096), Pope Eutychian (300), and Pope Stephen VIII (900). After him are Anastasia of Sirmium (281), Dominic Savio (1842), Aloysius Gonzaga (1568), Denis (210), Saint Eustace (10), and Saint Rosalia (1130).

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