RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Giovanni Angelo Becciu

1948 - Today

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Giovanni Angelo Becciu (born 2 June 1948) is an Italian Catholic prelate who served as prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints from 2018 until his resignation under duress in 2020. Pope Francis made him a cardinal in 2018. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giovanni Angelo Becciu has received more than 289,759 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Giovanni Angelo Becciu is the 968th most popular religious figure (up from 1,438th in 2019), the 1,422nd most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,081st in 2019) and the 307th most popular Italian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Giovanni Angelo Becciu ranks 968 out of 3,187Before him are Donatus Magnus, Suhayb ar-Rumi, Antipope Honorius II, Charles I, Count of Flanders, Mary Jane Kelly, and Saint Sabina. After him are Ikkyū, Saint Petronilla, Fatimah bint Musa, Gerhard Ludwig Müller, Nadezhda von Meck, and Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Giovanni Angelo Becciu ranks 92Before him are Mahesh Bhatt, Amadou Toumani Touré, Michel Suleiman, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Lars Lagerbäck, and Sérgio Vieira de Mello. After him are John Noble, Dominique Sanda, Mischa Maisky, Barbara Hershey, Nicolae Timofti, and Jesper Christensen.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovanni Angelo Becciu ranks 1,422 out of 5,161Before him are Prince Henry of Battenberg (1858), Saint Sabina (100), Saverio Mercadante (1795), Calpurnia (-77), Tyrannius Rufinus (345), and Maria Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Massa (1750). After him are Salvatore Schillaci (1964), Louis I of Etruria (1773), Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (-220), Lella Lombardi (1941), Alesso Baldovinetti (1425), and Ruggero Deodato (1939).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Italy

Among religious figures born in Italy, Giovanni Angelo Becciu ranks 307Before him are Saint Silvia (515), Arnold of Brescia (1100), Angelo Scola (1941), Arsenius the Great (354), Antipope Honorius II (1010), and Saint Sabina (100). After him are Pietro Gasparri (1852), Eugenia of Rome (180), Veronica Giuliani (1660), Benedict the Moor (1526), Saint Chrysogonus (250), and Anastasius Bibliothecarius (815).