RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Kuriakose Elias Chavara

1805 - 1871

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Saint Kuriakose Elias Chavara, CMI (10 February 1805 – 3 January 1871) was an Indian Syro-Malabar Catholic priest, religious, philosopher and social reformer. He is the first canonised Catholic male saint of Indian origin and was a member of the Syro-Malabar Church, an Eastern Catholic church. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kuriakose Elias Chavara has received more than 527,953 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Kuriakose Elias Chavara is the 2,317th most popular religious figure (down from 2,169th in 2019), the 489th most popular biography from India (down from 458th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular Indian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Kuriakose Elias Chavara ranks 2,317 out of 3,187. Before him are Jean-Claude Hollerich, Adrian of Canterbury, Theudas, Marina Semyonova, Joachim III of Constantinople, and Pierre Viret. After him are Javier Lozano Barragán, Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Crescenzio Sepe, Jean de Brébeuf, Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, and Diego Gelmírez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1805, Kuriakose Elias Chavara ranks 48. Before him are Johann Karl Rodbertus, Anton von Schmerling, Alexander Karl, Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg, Sarah Fuller Flower Adams, Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys, and Jean-Baptiste Nothomb. After him are Manuel García, Infanta Maria da Assunção of Braganza, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Johann Eduard Erdmann, Mary Seacole, and Esteban Echeverría. Among people deceased in 1871, Kuriakose Elias Chavara ranks 49. Before him are Carl Tausig, Julius Weisbach, Louis Charles Delescluze, Édouard Lartet, Princess Therese of Nassau-Weilburg, and Mariano Melgarejo. After him are Stand Watie, İbrahim Şinasi, Charles Antoine Lemaire, Alexander Serov, Castro Alves, and Robert Chambers.

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In India

Among people born in India, Kuriakose Elias Chavara ranks 489 out of 1,861. Before him are Mamata Banerjee (1955), Somnath Sharma (1923), Sharad Pawar (1940), Harish-Chandra (1923), Om Puri (1950), and Arundhati Roy (1961). After him are Abdul Sattar Edhi (1928), Nutan (1936), Kumaragupta I (400), Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi (1887), Balaji Baji Rao (1720), and Irrfan Khan (1967).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In India

Among religious figures born in India, Kuriakose Elias Chavara ranks 43. Before him are Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri (1855), Guru Har Krishan (1656), Ashraf Ali Thanwi (1863), Joseph Vaz (1651), Ivan Dias (1936), and Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889). After him are Saint Alphonsa (1910), Mohan Bhagwat (1950), Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy (1924), Roberto de Nobili (1577), Oswald Gracias (1944), and Nirmala Joshi (1934).

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