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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Mother Angelica

1923 - 2016

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Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation (born Rita Antoinette Rizzo; April 20, 1923 – March 27, 2016), commonly known as Mother Angelica, was an American Roman Catholic nun of the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration. She was best known for the television show Mother Angelica Live. She was the founder of the international broadcast cable television network Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) and the radio network WEWN. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mother Angelica has received more than 1,183,030 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Mother Angelica is the 2,369th most popular religious figure (down from 2,023rd in 2019), the 6,573rd most popular biography from United States (up from 6,593rd in 2019) and the 52nd most popular American Religious Figure.

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  • 1.2M

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  • 46.61

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Mother Angelica ranks 2,369 out of 2,238Before her are Salvatore De Giorgi, Violet Gibson, Emma Tillman, Roberto Tucci, Domenico Mezzadri, and James Michael Harvey. After her are Jakub Wujek, George Preca, Mikel Koliqi, Pope Timothy II of Alexandria, Théodore-Adrien Sarr, and Marcelo González Martín.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Mother Angelica ranks 291Before her are Hanna Maron, Mrinal Sen, James E. Gunn, Juan Acuña, Jaroslav Pelikan, and Peter Gay. After her are Eduardo Lourenço, Louise Brough, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Roy Dotrice, Gösta Löfgren, and Bernard Clavel. Among people deceased in 2016, Mother Angelica ranks 310Before her are Herschell Gordon Lewis, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, Néstor Gonçalves, José Parra Martínez, Anthony D. Smith, and Laurent Pokou. After her are Anton Yelchin, Elizabeth Roemer, Eliseo Prado, Luis Alberto Monge, Hermann Kant, and Norbert Schemansky.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mother Angelica ranks 6,573 out of 18,182Before her are Joel Roberts Poinsett (1779), Melinda Dillon (1939), Shane Dawson (1988), Evan Stone (1964), James Michael Harvey (1949), and Paul J. Weitz (1932). After her are Sean Parker (1979), Karl Logan (1965), J. Lawton Collins (1896), Robert Armstrong (1890), John Corigliano (1938), and William Luther Pierce (1933).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In United States

Among religious figures born in United States, Mother Angelica ranks 52Before her are Francis Spellman (1889), Adoniram Judson (1788), Alvin Sargent (1927), John Shelby Spong (1931), Emma Tillman (1892), and James Michael Harvey (1949). After her are Edmund Szoka (1927), Raymond E. Brown (1928), Lillian Disney (1899), Donald Wuerl (1940), William Wakefield Baum (1926), and John F. MacArthur (1939).