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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Benedict Biscop

628 - 690

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Benedict Biscop (c. 628 – 690), also known as Biscop Baducing, was an Anglo-Saxon abbot and founder of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Priory (where he also founded the famous library) and was considered a saint after his death. Baducing has been suggested to appear as Biscop Beding the Son of Beda Bubbing, King of Mercia in the Lyndsey/Lindfearnan lists of geneaologies held by the Anglian Collection and Great-Grandfather of Alfred The Great. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benedict Biscop has received more than 118,245 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Benedict Biscop is the 1,909th most popular religious figure (down from 1,830th in 2019), the 2,396th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,730th in 2019) and the 59th most popular British Religious Figure.

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  • 120k

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  • 50.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Benedict Biscop ranks 1,909 out of 2,238Before him are Kurt Koch, Karl Leisner, Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Victor and Corona, Yisrael Meir Kagan, and Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino. After him are Paul I of Constantinople, Georg Gänswein, Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, Hans Hermann Groër, Hypatius Pociej, and Raphael Kalinowski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 628, Benedict Biscop ranks 3Before him are Emperor Gaozong of Tang and Princess Wencheng.  Among people deceased in 690, Benedict Biscop ranks 4Before him are Paul of Aegina, Batbayan, and Julian of Toledo. After him is Theodore of Tarsus.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Benedict Biscop ranks 2,396 out of 7,765Before him are Bob Anderson (1931), Peter Pears (1910), Terence Fisher (1904), Michael Green (1946), Lesley Manville (1956), and Michael Berry (1941). After him are Richard Burbage (1567), Gerry Adams (1948), Leo Genn (1905), Edmund Gwenn (1877), William Gull (1816), and Sarah Fuller Flower Adams (1805).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In United Kingdom

Among religious figures born in United Kingdom, Benedict Biscop ranks 59Before him are Saint Alban (300), Barbara West (1911), Charles Wesley (1707), George Cruikshank (1792), Richard Williamson (1940), and Agnes Baden-Powell (1858). After him are Malo (487), Asser (900), Christian Horner (1973), Edmund Campion (1540), Anne Hutchinson (1591), and Wilfrid (634).