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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Hélder Câmara

1909 - 1999

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Hélder Pessoa Câmara (7 February 1909 – 27 August 1999) was a Brazilian Catholic archbishop. A self-identified socialist, he was the Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, serving from 1964 to 1985, during the military dictatorship in Brazil. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hélder Câmara has received more than 333,749 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Hélder Câmara is the 829th most popular religious figure (down from 730th in 2019), the 64th most popular biography from Brazil (down from 55th 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

  • 330k

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  • 60.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Hélder Câmara ranks 829 out of 2,238Before him are Antipope Dioscorus, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Apollinaris of Ravenna, Romano Guardini, Malik al-Ashtar, and Jean Mabillon. After him are Sen no Rikyū, Conrad Schumann, Antipope Gregory VIII, Eugenia of Rome, Fatimah bint Asad, and Ebussuud Efendi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Hélder Câmara ranks 38Before him are Jessica Tandy, Aleksandar Ranković, Leo Fender, Stanislaw Ulam, Ernst vom Rath, and Matt Busby. After him are László Rajk, Oldřich Nejedlý, Princess Ileana of Romania, Rollo May, Rudolf Brandt, and Norberto Bobbio. Among people deceased in 1999, Hélder Câmara ranks 32Before him are Sarah Knauss, Trygve Haavelmo, Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, Julius Nyerere, Anatoliy Solovianenko, and Mary Ainsworth. After him are Hermine Braunsteiner, Fred Trump, Iris Murdoch, Gerhard Herzberg, Benjamin Bloom, and Henry Way Kendall.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Hélder Câmara ranks 64 out of 2,067Before him are Ademir de Menezes (1922), Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil (1846), Zumbi (1655), Deodoro da Fonseca (1827), Zizinho (1921), and José Altafini (1938). After him are Nelson Freire (1944), Gérson (1941), Astrud Gilberto (1940), Hebe Camargo (1929), Carlos Ghosn (1954), and Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco (1897).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Brazil

Among religious figures born in Brazil, Hélder Câmara ranks 1After him are José Freire Falcão (1925), Leonardo Boff (1938), Cláudio Hummes (1934), João Braz de Aviz (1947), Eusébio Scheid (1932), Frei Galvão (1739), Aloísio Lorscheider (1924), Paulo Evaristo Arns (1921), Irmã Dulce (1914), Odilo Scherer (1949), and Geraldo Majella Agnelo (1933).