RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir

1920 - 2019

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Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir (Moran Mor Naṣrallah Buṭrus Ṣufayr; Arabic: الكاردينال مار نصر الله بطرس صفير; Latin: Victor Petrus Sfeir; 15 May 1920 – 12 May 2019) was the patriarch of Lebanon's largest Christian body, the Maronite Church, an Eastern Catholic Church in communion with the Holy See. He was also given the honorific title of cardinal. He was elected Patriarch of Antioch for the Maronites on 27 April 1986, and his resignation was accepted on 26 February 2011. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir has received more than 183,336 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir is the 1,699th most popular religious figure (down from 1,523rd in 2019), the 70th most popular biography from Lebanon (down from 61st in 2019) and the 13th most popular Lebanese Religious Figure.

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  • 180k

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  • 54.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir has had the most page views in the with 16,463 views, followed by Arabic (8,355), and French (2,580). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Latin (60.69%), Egyptian Arabic (57.02%), and Kapampangan (37.43%)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir ranks 1,699 out of 3,187Before him are Caspar Schwenckfeld, Willibald, Dimitry of Rostov, Giacomo Antonelli, Nahor, son of Terah, and Kosmas the Aetolian. After him are Ranuccio Farnese, Jan Sarkander, Trifko Grabež, Darío Castrillón Hoyos, Poppo von Osterna, and Raymond Franz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir ranks 166Before him are Marlen Haushofer, Marie Tharp, Janet Jagan, Thomas Szasz, Richard Adams, and Katsuko Saruhashi. After him are Barend Biesheuvel, William Conrad, Eduardo Mondlane, Schubert Gambetta, Roberto M. Levingston, and Thomas Gold. Among people deceased in 2019, Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir ranks 152Before him are Pim Verbeek, Hussain Muhammad Ershad, Eduardo Fajardo, Egil Danielsen, Girish Karnad, and George Hilton. After him are Ken Kercheval, Stefano Delle Chiaie, Paul Volcker, Dick Dale, Edith González, and Altair Gomes de Figueiredo.

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In Lebanon

Among people born in Lebanon, Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir ranks 70 out of 145Before him are Fakhr al-Din II (1572), Elias Hrawi (1926), Suleiman Frangieh (1910), Samir Geagea (1952), Abdalonymus (-305), and Philo of Byblos (64). After him are Etel Adnan (1925), Riad Al Solh (1894), Wadih El Safi (1921), Élias Sarkis (1924), Selim Hoss (1929), and Gabriel Yared (1949).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Lebanon

Among religious figures born in Lebanon, Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir ranks 13Before him are Frumentius (400), Pope Sisinnius (650), Pamphilus of Caesarea (240), Abd al-Rahman al-Awza'i (707), Nimatullah Kassab (1808), and Bechara Boutros al-Rahi (1940). After him are Raphaël Bedros XXI Minassian (1946), Giuseppe Simone Assemani (1686), Aram I (1947), and Anthony Peter Khoraish (1907).