RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Luigi Poggi

1917 - 2010

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Luigi Poggi (25 November 1917 – 4 May 2010) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See from 1946 to 1994, as an archbishop and apostolic nuncio from 1965. After serving as nuncio in several African countries and Peru, he became the Vatican's principal emissary to the Communist countries of Eastern Europe as Popes Paul VI and John Paul II sought renewed engagement with that region. He became a cardinal in 1994. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Luigi Poggi has received more than 27,600 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Luigi Poggi is the 2,148th most popular religious figure (down from 1,874th in 2019), the 2,996th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,695th in 2019) and the 451st most popular Italian Religious Figure.

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  • 28k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Luigi Poggi has had the most page views in the with 2,864 views, followed by English (2,764), and Italian (1,871). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Volapük (76.97%), Occitan (55.60%), and Finnish (50.88%)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Luigi Poggi ranks 2,148 out of 3,187Before him are Elio Sgreccia, Yisrael Meir Kagan, Karl Leisner, Alexius, Metropolitan of Kiev, Benjamin I of Constantinople, and Robby Müller. After him are Philip II, Metropolitan of Moscow, Angelo Felici, Alfred Des Cloizeaux, Polyeuctus of Constantinople, Saint Pirmin, and Musō Soseki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Luigi Poggi ranks 178Before him are Lena Horne, Abdullah al-Sallal, André Waterkeyn, Yuri Lyubimov, Ilse Steppat, and Tetyana Yablonska. After him are Steno, William H. McNeill, Musine Kokalari, Otto Glória, Christiane Rochefort, and I Gusti Ngurah Rai. Among people deceased in 2010, Luigi Poggi ranks 191Before him are Corin Redgrave, Nicola Cabibbo, Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, Norman Wisdom, and Samuel T. Cohen. After him are Vitaly Sevastyanov, Stephen J. Cannell, Frank Frazetta, Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern, Salvador Jorge Blanco, and Farooq Leghari.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Luigi Poggi ranks 2,996 out of 5,161Before him are Giuseppe Parini (1729), Amedeo Biavati (1915), Giancarlo Minardi (1947), Arator (500), Gabriele Oriali (1952), and Macedonio Melloni (1798). After him are Hugh, Margrave of Tuscany (950), Steno (1917), Adalbert I, Margrave of Tuscany (820), Giovanna Ralli (1935), Giovanni Maria Lancisi (1654), and Pietro Bracci (1700).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Italy

Among religious figures born in Italy, Luigi Poggi ranks 451Before him are Nicola Canali (1874), Corrado Bafile (1903), Giovanni de' Medici (1543), Achille Silvestrini (1923), Flavio Chigi (1631), and John Leonardi (1541). After him are Gaetano Bedini (1806), Virgilio Noè (1922), Amatus of Montecassino (1010), Giovanni de' Marignolli (1290), Giuseppe Versaldi (1943), and Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499).