RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Joseph Vaz

1651 - 1711

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Joseph Vaz, CO (21 April 1651 – 16 January 1711) was an Oratorian priest and missionary in Sri Lanka (Ceylon). Originally from Sancoale in Portuguese India, Vaz arrived in Ceylon during the Dutch occupation, a time when the Dutch had banned Catholicism in Ceylon and imposed Calvinism as the official religion after taking control from the Portuguese Empire. He travelled throughout the island bringing the Eucharist and the Sacraments to clandestine groups of crypto-Catholics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Vaz has received more than 368,519 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Vaz is the 1,985th most popular religious figure (down from 1,662nd in 2019), the 402nd most popular biography from India (down from 331st in 2019) and the 40th most popular Indian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Joseph Vaz ranks 1,985 out of 3,187. Before him are Procopius of Sázava, Alypius the Stylite, Sára Salkaházi, Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk, Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei, and Maurice Bavaud. After him are Emmanuel III Delly, João Braz de Aviz, Sabbas the Goth, Justo Gallego Martínez, Pope Theonas of Alexandria, and Jeanne Jugan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1651, Joseph Vaz ranks 16. Before him are Charles II, Elector Palatine, Charles Eugène de Croÿ, Dimitry of Rostov, Johann Krieger, William VII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, and Louis Antoine de Noailles. After him are George XI of Kartli, and Balthasar Permoser. Among people deceased in 1711, Joseph Vaz ranks 9. Before him are Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, John William Friso, Prince of Orange, Frederick William, Duke of Courland, Louis-François de Boufflers, Maria Amalia of Courland, and Vladimir Atlasov. After him are Philip William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Eusebio Kino, Gerard de Lairesse, Élisabeth Sophie Chéron, Francesco Maria de' Medici, Duke of Rovere and Montefeltro, and Peter Schenk the Elder.

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In India

Among people born in India, Joseph Vaz ranks 402 out of 1,861. Before him are S. P. Balasubrahmanyam (1946), B. D. Jatti (1912), Suriya (1975), Akshata Murty (1980), Shibli Nomani (1857), and Vishwanath Pratap Singh (1931). After him are Suryakant Tripathi (1899), Malik Kafur (1250), Vidya Balan (1979), Sharmila Tagore (1944), Anil Kapoor (1956), and Kiran Bedi (1949).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In India

Among religious figures born in India, Joseph Vaz ranks 40. Before him are Telesphore Toppo (1939), Abbé Faria (1756), Nirmala Srivastava (1923), Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri (1855), Guru Har Krishan (1656), and Ashraf Ali Thanwi (1863). After him are Ivan Dias (1936), Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889), Kuriakose Elias Chavara (1805), Saint Alphonsa (1910), Mohan Bhagwat (1950), and Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy (1924).

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