RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Hélder Câmara

1909 - 1999

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Hélder Pessoa Câmara (7 February 1909 – 27 August 1999) was a Brazilian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Olinda and Recife from 1964 to 1985 during the military dictatorship in Brazil. He was declared a Servant of God in 2015. A self-identified socialist, Câmara was an advocate of liberation theology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hélder Câmara has received more than 356,933 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 34 in 2019). Hélder Câmara is the 871st most popular religious figure (down from 821st in 2019), the 74th most popular biography from Brazil (down from 64th in 2019) and the most popular Brazilian Religious Figure.

Hélder Câmara was a Brazilian Roman Catholic priest and theologian who was also a liberation theologian. He is most famous for his work in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, where he was a parish priest.

Memorability Metrics

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Hélder Câmara ranks 871 out of 3,187. Before him are Peter of Verona, Mata Amritanandamayi, Lawrence of Brindisi, Mikao Usui, Sai Baba of Shirdi, and Tarasios of Constantinople. After him are Dayananda Saraswati, Columba, Philipp Spener, Hans Egede, Caesar Baronius, and Ebussuud Efendi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Hélder Câmara ranks 41. Before him are Edward Tatum, Miep Gies, Matt Busby, Ernst vom Rath, Leo Fender, and Alain Poher. After him are Vicente Feola, László Rajk, Colonel Tom Parker, Yiannis Ritsos, Alexander Pechersky, and Norberto Bobbio. Among people deceased in 1999, Hélder Câmara ranks 34. Before him are Iris Murdoch, Desmond Llewelyn, Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz, Oliver Reed, Mary Ainsworth, and Fred Trump. After him are Nathalie Sarraute, Gerhard Herzberg, John F. Kennedy Jr., Bernard Buffet, Amintore Fanfani, and Adolfo Bioy Casares.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Hélder Câmara ranks 74 out of 2,236. Before him are Careca (1960), João Goulart (1918), Dunga (1963), Carlos Ghosn (1954), Anita Garibaldi (1821), and Dani Alves (1983). After him are Vicente Feola (1909), Zumbi (1655), Ernesto Geisel (1907), Dida (1973), Fernanda Montenegro (1929), and Reinaldo Arenas (1943).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Brazil

Among religious figures born in Brazil, Hélder Câmara ranks 1. After him are Leonardo Boff (1938), Cláudio Hummes (1934), Geraldo Majella Agnelo (1933), João Braz de Aviz (1947), Paulo Evaristo Arns (1921), Frei Galvão (1739), José Freire Falcão (1925), Irmã Dulce (1914), Aloísio Lorscheider (1924), Odilo Scherer (1949), and Orani João Tempesta (1949).

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