RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Elizabeth Ann Seton

1774 - 1821

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Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton (August 28, 1774 – January 4, 1821) was a Catholic religious sister in the United States and an educator, known as a founder of the country's parochial school system. Born in New York and reared as an Episcopalian, she married and had five children with her husband William Seton. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elizabeth Ann Seton has received more than 1,299,052 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Elizabeth Ann Seton is the 2,273rd most popular religious figure (down from 2,168th in 2019), the 4,928th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,350th in 2019) and the 40th most popular American Religious Figure.

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  • 1.3M

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  • 50.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Elizabeth Ann Seton ranks 2,273 out of 3,187. Before her are Luis Héctor Villalba, Antonio Maria Vegliò, Zenobius of Florence, Jacqueline Felice de Almania, Claudio Gugerotti, and Hsing Yun. After her are Kazim Rashti, Irenaios, Antonio Innocenti, Ivan Dias, Arturo Sosa, and Maatkare Mutemhat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1774, Elizabeth Ann Seton ranks 29. Before her are Marie-Denise Villers, Georg von Langsdorff, Karl Mollweide, André Marie Constant Duméril, Meriwether Lewis, and Václav Tomášek. After her are Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, Dawud Pasha of Baghdad, Johnny Appleseed, Juan Aldama, Luis Eduardo Pérez, and W. J. Coffee. Among people deceased in 1821, Elizabeth Ann Seton ranks 26. Before her are Athanasios Diakos, Heinrich Kuhl, Fulgencio Yegros, Anders Jahan Retzius, Constance Mayer, and Pōmare II. After her are Félix de Azara, Martín Miguel de Güemes, Georg Friedrich von Martens, José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa, Carlo Porta, and Marie-Louise Lachapelle.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Elizabeth Ann Seton ranks 4,928 out of 20,380. Before her are Joe Montana (1956), Dorothy Lamour (1914), Saul Zaentz (1921), Alex Rocco (1936), James W. Christy (1938), and Eileen Ryan (1927). After her are James Russell Lowell (1819), Whitcomb L. Judson (1846), John Lewis (1920), Seann William Scott (1976), Dennis Frederiksen (1951), and Larry Tesler (1945).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In United States

Among religious figures born in United States, Elizabeth Ann Seton ranks 40. Before her are Lucian Pulvermacher (1918), Dwight L. Moody (1837), James Michael Harvey (1949), Jeralean Talley (1899), Yusuf Estes (1944), and Theodore Edgar McCarrick (1930). After her are Madalyn Murray O'Hair (1919), Dorothy Stang (1931), Seraphim Rose (1934), John Patrick Foley (1935), Tammy Faye Messner (1942), and Edwin Frederick O'Brien (1939).

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