RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Marcial Maciel

1920 - 2008

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Marcial Maciel Degollado (March 10, 1920 – January 30, 2008) was a Mexican Catholic priest who founded the Legion of Christ and the Regnum Christi movement. He was general director of the Legion from 1941 to 2005. Throughout most of his career, he was respected within the church as "the greatest fundraiser of the modern Roman Catholic church" and as a prolific recruiter of new seminarians. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marcial Maciel has received more than 774,701 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Marcial Maciel is the 1,509th most popular religious figure (down from 1,107th in 2019), the 99th most popular biography from Mexico (down from 68th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Mexican Religious Figure.

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  • 770k

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  • 61.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Marcial Maciel ranks 1,509 out of 3,187. Before him are Catherine of Ricci, Alexandrina of Balazar, Adalbert of Hamburg, Ithamar, Meletius IV of Constantinople, and Düsum Khyenpa, 1st Karmapa Lama. After him are Marco d'Aviano, Herman I of Baden, Maurice de Sully, Oliviero Carafa, Dominik Duka, and Hōjō Ujimasa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Marcial Maciel ranks 145. Before him are Alf Ramsey, Michael Anderson, Philippa Foot, Muhammad Siddiq Al-Minshawi, Emilio Colombo, and Alexander Arutiunian. After him are Guido Cantelli, Viveca Lindfors, Delbert Mann, Khieu Ponnary, Walter Krupinski, and Mohamed Oufkir. Among people deceased in 2008, Marcial Maciel ranks 97. Before him are Dan Shomron, Boris Shakhlin, Paul Scofield, Jean Delannoy, Paul Frère, and Claude Piron. After him are Estelle Getty, Sofiko Chiaureli, Pak Song-chol, Arthur Chung, Mitch Mitchell, and Albert Cossery.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Marcial Maciel ranks 99 out of 729. Before him are Pedro Rodríguez (1940), Juan Gabriel (1950), Ce Acatl Topiltzin (947), El Santo (1917), Miguel Alemán Valdés (1900), and Rosie Reyes (1939). After him are Ramon Novarro (1899), Agustín Lara (1897), Jacob Bekenstein (1947), Miguel Miramón (1832), Mariano Arista (1802), and Joaquin Murrieta (1829).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Mexico

Among religious figures born in Mexico, Marcial Maciel ranks 4. Before him are Julia Pastrana (1834), Juan Diego (1474), and José Sánchez del Río (1913). After him are Tlacaelel (1397), Juan Sandoval Íñiguez (1933), Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo (1926), Bernard Francis Law (1931), Miguel Pro (1891), Javier Lozano Barragán (1933), Norberto Rivera Carrera (1942), and Francisco Robles Ortega (1949).

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