RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Giovanni Canestri

1918 - 2015

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Giovanni Canestri (30 September 1918 – 29 April 2015) was an Italian Catholic cardinal, who served as Archbishop of Cagliari from 1984 until 1987 and as Archbishop of Genoa from 1987 until 1995. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giovanni Canestri has received more than 48,568 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Giovanni Canestri is the 2,339th most popular religious figure (down from 1,847th in 2019), the 3,222nd most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,666th in 2019) and the 476th most popular Italian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Giovanni Canestri ranks 2,339 out of 3,187Before him are Patrick Allen, Zacharias of Jerusalem, Alexandre José Maria dos Santos, Antonio María Barbieri, Demetrios Kydones, and Conall mac Comgaill. After him are Aleksander Kakowski, Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez, Sigitas Tamkevičius, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Gabriel Zubeir Wako, and Mellitus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Giovanni Canestri ranks 177Before him are Gottfried von Einem, Max Merkel, Antonio Janigro, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Kumar Pallana, and Jeff Chandler. After him are George Constantine, Barry Morse, Alfred Bickel, Émile Derlin Zinsou, Shinobu Hashimoto, and Édouard Gagnon. Among people deceased in 2015, Giovanni Canestri ranks 230Before him are Charles Pasqua, Walter Burkert, Elizabeth Wilson, Tadahiko Ueda, Henri Coppens, and Miroslav Ondříček. After him are Melissa Mathison, Dimitar Iliev Popov, Ludvík Vaculík, Józef Oleksy, Gurgen Dalibaltayan, and Franjo Mihalić.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovanni Canestri ranks 3,222 out of 5,161Before him are Sabrina Ferilli (1964), Francesco Pesellino (1422), Mario Bellini (1935), Cesare Balbo (1789), Enzo Ghinazzi (1955), and Antonio Pacinotti (1841). After him are Tony Renis (1938), Mario Cipollini (1967), Lorenzo Perosi (1872), Nicola Larini (1964), Fabio Quagliarella (1983), and Pierbattista Pizzaballa (1965).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Italy

Among religious figures born in Italy, Giovanni Canestri ranks 476Before him are Marco Cé (1925), Christoph Bartholomäus Anton Migazzi (1714), Crescenzio Sepe (1943), Cesare Orsenigo (1873), Ricardo Ezzati Andrello (1942), and Giuseppe Pizzardo (1877). After him are Pierbattista Pizzaballa (1965), Mellitus (600), Mario Zenari (1946), Austromoine (300), Giovanni Coppa (1925), and Benedict Menni (1841).