RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Luigi Poggi

1917 - 2010

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Luigi Poggi (25 November 1917 – 4 May 2010) was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate, nuncio, and spymaster who led The Entity, the foreign intelligence service of the Holy See. Made titular bishop of Forontoniana in 1965 upon assignment as nuncio, Poggi officially served as papal representative to several African nations before being reassigned to Europe to advance Paul VI's Ostpolitik policy of rapprochement to the Eastern Bloc. At the height of the Cold War he served as the Vatican's principal emissary to several Warsaw Pact countries, as Popes Paul VI and John Paul II sought renewed engagement with the Soviet Union. Named chief of the apostolic delegation to Poland during the 1980s, he led a partnership with the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Luigi Poggi has received more than 30,426 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Luigi Poggi is the 2,150th 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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  • 30k

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  • 58.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Luigi Poggi ranks 2,150 out of 3,187. Before 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 178. Before 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 191. Before 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 5,161. Before 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).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Italy

Among religious figures born in Italy, Luigi Poggi ranks 451. Before 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).

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