RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Kimpa Vita

1684 - 1706

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Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita, also known as Kimpa Mvita, Cimpa Vita or Tsimpa Vita (1684 – 2 July 1706), was a Kongolese prophet and leader of her own Christian movement, Antonianism; this movement taught that Jesus and other early Christian figures were from the Kongo Kingdom. The name "Dona" indicates that she was born into a family of high Kongolese nobility; she was later given the name "Beatriz" after the Catholic saint. Her teaching grew out of the traditions of the Catholic Church in Kongo, and caused her to upbraid the Catholic priests for not believing as she did. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kimpa Vita has received more than 186,025 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Kimpa Vita is the 1,536th most popular religious figure.

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Kimpa Vita ranks 1,536 out of 3,187. Before her are Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga, Giovanni Benelli, Angelo Dundee, Stephen Langton, Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli, and Arp Schnitger. After her are Jean Daniélou, Federico Borromeo, Michael the Syrian, Andrew Dũng-Lạc, Guillaume Dubois, and Marcellin Champagnat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1684, Kimpa Vita ranks 11. Before her are Francesco Durante, Tokugawa Yoshimune, Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg, Johann Gottfried Walther, Jean-Baptiste van Loo, and Robert Maynard. After her are Edward Vernon, Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle, Francesco Manfredini, Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg, and Jean Astruc. Among people deceased in 1706, Kimpa Vita ranks 5. Before her are Johann Pachelbel, Pierre Bayle, Peter II of Portugal, and 6th Dalai Lama. After her are Arsenije III Čarnojević, Andreas Werckmeister, Rahman Baba, Georg Joseph Kamel, Bernhard I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Ferdinand de Marsin, and Godfried Schalcken.

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