RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Pedro Casaldáliga

1928 - 2020

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Pere Casaldàliga i Pla , known in Portuguese as Pedro Casaldáliga (16 February 1928 – 8 August 2020), was a Spanish-born Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church who led the Territorial Prelature of São Félix, Brazil, from 1970 to 2005. A bishop since 1971, Casaldàliga was one of the best-known exponents of liberation theology. He received numerous awards, including the Catalonia International Prize in 2006. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pedro Casaldáliga has received more than 63,232 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Pedro Casaldáliga is the 2,161st most popular religious figure (down from 1,820th in 2019), the 1,163rd most popular biography from Spain (down from 976th in 2019) and the 85th most popular Spanish Religious Figure.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.49

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  • 1.86

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Pedro Casaldáliga ranks 2,161 out of 3,187Before him are Saint Pirmin, Musō Soseki, Hilary of Arles, Rupert Mayer, Nectarius of Constantinople, and François de Tournon. After him are Hans Talhoffer, Juan Benlloch i Vivó, Peter of Bruys, Arnobius the Younger, Maria Bernarda Bütler, and Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Pedro Casaldáliga ranks 289Before him are Ian Bannen, Arthur Melvin Okun, Elio Sgreccia, Bill Mollison, Clifford Edmund Bosworth, and Dick Miller. After him are Frank Frazetta, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Umberto Maglioli, Bob Crane, Gunnar Andersson, and Luciano De Crescenzo. Among people deceased in 2020, Pedro Casaldáliga ranks 267Before him are Louis Nirenberg, Jean Delumeau, Norma Cappagli, Dragoljub Ojdanić, Mikhail Zhvanetsky, and Pamela Tiffin. After him are Barry Hulshoff, Ronald Graham, Roger Carel, Mahmoud Jibril, Zenon Grocholewski, and Jaswant Singh.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Pedro Casaldáliga ranks 1,163 out of 3,355Before him are Arsenio Iglesias (1930), Emilio de Villota (1946), Adrián Escudero (1927), Luis Miró (1913), Xavier Montsalvatge (1912), and Marc Márquez (1993). After him are Manuel Velázquez (1943), Claudio Coello (1642), Juan Benlloch i Vivó (1864), Francisco de Ulloa (1501), Lucía Sánchez Saornil (1895), and Sabicas (1912).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Spain

Among religious figures born in Spain, Pedro Casaldáliga ranks 85Before him are José Luis Lacunza Maestrojuán (1944), Shlomo ibn Aderet (1235), Francisco Álvarez Martínez (1925), Ricardo María Carles Gordó (1926), Antonio María Javierre Ortas (1921), and Fernando Sebastián Aguilar (1929). After him are Juan Benlloch i Vivó (1864), Pacian (310), Joaquina Vedruna de Mas (1783), Josep Maria Mauri (1941), Francis Solanus (1549), and Ricardo Blázquez (1942).