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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Nilus of Sora

1433 - 1508

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Nilus of Sora (also Nil Sorsky or Nil Sorski; Russian: Нил Сорский; secular name: Nikolai Maikov; Russian: Николай Майков; c. 1433 – 7 May 1508) was a Russian Orthodox monk, spiritual writer, theologian, and the founder of the Sora Hermitage. He is best known as the founder of a tendency in the Russian Orthodox Church known as the non-possessors (nestyazhateli) which opposed ecclesiastic landownership. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nilus of Sora has received more than 38,538 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Nilus of Sora is the 1,896th most popular religious figure (down from 1,685th in 2019), the 1,146th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,076th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Russian Religious Figure.

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  • 39k

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  • 51.03

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Nilus of Sora ranks 1,896 out of 2,238Before him are Gedaliah, Sophronius IV of Alexandria, John of Biclaro, Isaac in Islam, Emmanuel III Delly, and Józef Glemp. After him are Christian Tumi, Epaphroditus, Patriarch Hermogenes of Moscow, Gamzat-bek, Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky, and Jean du Vergier de Hauranne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1433, Nilus of Sora ranks 7Before him are Charles the Bold, Marsilio Ficino, Stephen III of Moldavia, Ferdinand, Duke of Viseu, Giovanni Giocondo, and Mirkhvand. After him are Eleanor of Scotland and Abdullah Mirza. Among people deceased in 1508, Nilus of Sora ranks 11Before him are Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria, Conrad Celtes, Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, Philip, Elector Palatine, Radu IV the Great, and Nephon II of Constantinople.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nilus of Sora ranks 1,146 out of 3,262Before him are Vasily Agapkin (1884), Kaj Franck (1911), Vasily Rozanov (1856), Eino Rahja (1885), Igor M. Diakonoff (1914), and Galina Kulakova (1942). After him are Patriarch Hermogenes of Moscow (1530), Gaito Gazdanov (1903), Yevgeny Shaposhnikov (1942), Vasily Lazarev (1928), Gamzat-bek (1789), and Evgeny Schwartz (1896).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Russia

Among religious figures born in Russia, Nilus of Sora ranks 27Before him are Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow (1877), Matrona Nikonova (1881), Hyacinth (1777), Stephen of Perm (1340), Patriarch Job of Moscow (1525), and Innocent of Alaska (1797). After him are Patriarch Hermogenes of Moscow (1530), Gamzat-bek (1789), Ignatius Brianchaninov (1807), Marina Semyonova (1908), Herman of Alaska (1756), and Abraham of Smolensk (1172).