RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Bridget of Sweden

1303 - 1373

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Bridget of Sweden, OSsS (c. 1303 – 23 July 1373), born Birgitta Birgersdotter and also known as Birgitta of Vadstena (Swedish: heliga Birgitta), was a Swedish Catholic mystic and the founder of the Bridgettines. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bridget of Sweden has received more than 870,115 page views. Her biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia. Bridget of Sweden is the 209th most popular religious figure (down from 175th in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from Sweden (down from 21st in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Religious Figure.

Bridget of Sweden is most famous for founding a convent in Vadstena, Sweden.

Memorability Metrics

  • 870k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 73.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 55

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Bridget of Sweden ranks 209 out of 3,187. Before her are Pope Boniface I, Pope Celestine III, John of Nepomuk, Pope Innocent IX, Pope Gregory XI, and Pope Sixtus II. After her are Pope Gregory XIV, Pope Innocent XII, Pope Eugene III, Pope Clement XIV, Pope Nicholas V, and Pope Innocent XIII.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1303, Bridget of Sweden ranks 1. After her is Giovanni Dolfin. Among people deceased in 1373, Bridget of Sweden ranks 1. After her are Ibn Kathir, Joan of Valois, Queen of Navarre, Ivan Stephen of Bulgaria, Andrew Corsini, Elisabeth of Bohemia, Magnus II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Constantine IV of Armenia.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Bridget of Sweden ranks 22 out of 1,879. Before her are Gustaf V of Sweden (1858), Svante Arrhenius (1859), Olof Palme (1927), Ingrid Bergman (1915), Greta Garbo (1905), and Gustav I of Sweden (1496). After her are Dag Hammarskjöld (1905), Christina, Queen of Sweden (1626), Oscar II of Sweden (1829), Ingrid of Sweden (1910), Oleg of Novgorod (900), and Charles X Gustav of Sweden (1622).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Sweden

Among religious figures born in Sweden, Bridget of Sweden ranks 1. After her are Eric IX of Sweden (1120), Olaus Magnus (1490), Nathan Söderblom (1866), Lars Levi Laestadius (1800), Catherine of Vadstena (1331), Johannes Magnus (1488), Prince Oscar Bernadotte (1859), Gustav Trolle (1488), Laurentius Petri (1499), Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna (1417), and Elizabeth Hesselblad (1870).

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