RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Josemaría Escrivá

1902 - 1975

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Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer y Albás, born Jose María Escribá Albás, (9 January 1902 – 26 June 1975) was a Spanish Catholic priest who founded Opus Dei, an organization of laypeople and priests dedicated to the principle of everyday holiness. He was canonized in 2002 by Pope John Paul II, who declared Josemaría should be "counted among the great witnesses of Christianity." Escrivá gained a doctorate in civil law at the Complutense University of Madrid and a doctorate in theology at the Lateran University in Rome. His principal work was the initiation, government and expansion of Opus Dei. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Josemaría Escrivá has received more than 838,138 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia. Josemaría Escrivá is the 554th most popular religious figure (down from 516th in 2019), the 145th most popular biography from Spain (down from 138th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Spanish Religious Figure.

Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer, more commonly known as "josemaría," was a Spanish priest and writer. He is most famous for founding the Opus Dei, a Catholic organization that has been accused of being a cult.

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  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.85

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  • 3.18

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Josemaría Escrivá ranks 554 out of 3,187. Before him are Zayd ibn Thabit, Meritaten, William Laud, Saint Timothy, Truganini, and Pope Telesphorus. After him are Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, Pope John XIII, Ludmila of Bohemia, Paul the Deacon, Pope Victor II, and Eric IX of Sweden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Josemaría Escrivá ranks 24. Before him are Kurt Alder, Barbara McClintock, Walter Houser Brattain, Arne Tiselius, Ray Kroc, and William Wyler. After him are Arne Jacobsen, Meyer Lansky, Mikhail Suslov, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, Fritz Strassmann, and André Michel Lwoff. Among people deceased in 1975, Josemaría Escrivá ranks 19. Before him are Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Mikhail Bakhtin, Saint-John Perse, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and George Paget Thomson. After him are Robert Robinson, Gustav Ludwig Hertz, Antonín Novotný, Graham Hill, Jimmy Hoffa, and Eisaku Satō.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Josemaría Escrivá ranks 145 out of 3,355. Before him are Mariana Victoria of Spain (1718), Ferdinand I of Aragon (1380), Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881), Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona (1913), Henry II of Navarre (1503), and Juan Antonio Samaranch (1920). After him are James II of Aragon (1267), Henry IV of Castile (1425), Ferdinand I of Naples (1423), José Echegaray (1832), Peter IV of Aragon (1319), and Diego de Almagro (1475).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Spain

Among religious figures born in Spain, Josemaría Escrivá ranks 17. Before him are John of the Cross (1542), Tomás de Torquemada (1420), Vincent of Saragossa (300), Antipope Benedict XIII (1328), Ibn Hazm (994), and Vincent Ferrer (1350). After him are Joan Enric Vives Sicília (1949), Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía (1510), Eulalia of Mérida (290), Raymond of Penyafort (1175), Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur (1626), and Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros (1436).

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