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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 692,826 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Marcial Maciel is the 1,116th most popular religious figure (down from 1,030th in 2019), the 68th most popular biography from Mexico (down from 66th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Mexican Religious Figure.

Memorability Metrics

  • 690k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Marcial Maciel ranks 1,116 out of 2,238Before him are Jakob Ammann, Hugh of Cluny, John Eudes, Shoghi Effendi, Caesarius of Arles, and A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. After him are Günter Guillaume, George Syncellus, Raymond Nonnatus, John of Montecorvino, Tode Mongke, and Dom Justo Takayama.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Marcial Maciel ranks 92Before him are Henry Heimlich, Karl Albrecht, Vilém Flusser, Chiara Lubich, Edmond H. Fischer, and Mehdi Ben Barka. After him are Gottfried Böhm, P. D. James, Meliton Kantaria, Väinö Linna, Jaan Kross, and Hans Blumenberg. Among people deceased in 2008, Marcial Maciel ranks 63Before him are Isaac Hayes, Mauricio Kagel, Eartha Kitt, Paul Scofield, Chiara Lubich, and Hugo Claus. After him are Jean-Marie Balestre, Muslim Magomayev, Bo Diddley, Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, Bettie Page, and Henry Molaison.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Marcial Maciel ranks 68 out of 585Before him are Axayacatl (1449), Chespirito (1929), Alfonso García Robles (1911), Acamapichtli (1325), Carmen Salinas (1939), and Pedro Infante (1917). After him are Tizoc (1436), Pedro Rodríguez (1940), Subcomandante Marcos (1957), Itzcoatl (1380), Antonio Carbajal (1929), and Pedro Lascuráin (1856).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Mexico

Among religious figures born in Mexico, Marcial Maciel ranks 3Before him are Juan Diego (1474) and Julia Pastrana (1834). After him are José Sánchez del Río (1913), Bernard Francis Law (1931), Tlacaelel (1397), Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo (1926), Norberto Rivera Carrera (1942), Miguel Pro (1891), Javier Lozano Barragán (1933), Juan Sandoval Íñiguez (1933), and Adolfo Suárez Rivera (1927).