RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Pedro Páez

1564 - 1622

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Pedro Páez Jaramillo, S.J. (Portuguese: Pero Pais; 1564 – 20 May 1622) was a Spanish Jesuit missionary in Ethiopia. Páez is considered by many experts on Ethiopia to be the most effective Catholic missionary in Ethiopia. He is believed to be the first European to see and describe the source of the Blue Nile, which he reached on 21 April 1618. Páez' two-volume História da Etiópia (History of Ethiopia) is regarded by scholars of Ethiopian history as one of the most valuable and accurate works on the contemporary Solomonic Empire and its history (as understood by local sources) up to his own time, particularly as the works of local writers, despite the Ethiopian Orthodox Church's long tradition of literate monastic scholarship and the regular compilation of imperial chronicles, have in large part been lost in the centuries of intermittent conflict that followed or otherwise remained unknown to contemporary scholarship. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pedro Páez has received more than 58,148 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Pedro Páez is the 2,327th most popular religious figure (down from 2,074th in 2019), the 1,266th most popular biography from Spain (down from 1,138th in 2019) and the 93rd most popular Spanish Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Pedro Páez ranks 2,327 out of 3,187. Before him are Jean de Brébeuf, Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, Diego Gelmírez, Edmund Campion, Cesare Orsenigo, and Ricardo Ezzati Andrello. After him are Irmã Dulce, Herman of Alaska, Heo Hwang-ok, Frederick Jagiellon, Giuseppe Pizzardo, and Patrick Allen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1564, Pedro Páez ranks 18. Before him are Federico Borromeo, Joos de Momper, Margherita Gonzaga, Duchess of Ferrara, Hans Rottenhammer, John Casimir, Duke of Saxe-Coburg, and Sibylla of Anhalt. After him is Ernest II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Among people deceased in 1622, Pedro Páez ranks 20. Before him are Leandro Bassano, Charles Philip, Duke of Södermanland, Sophie of Brandenburg, Alof de Wignacourt, Michael Maier, and Luarsab II of Kartli. After him are Squanto, and Khusrau Mirza.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Pedro Páez ranks 1,266 out of 3,355. Before him are Carlos Moyá (1976), Diego Gelmírez (1069), Joan Alcover (1854), Lope de Rueda (1500), José de Palafox y Melci, 1st Duke of Zaragoza (1775), and Juan Álvarez Mendizábal (1790). After him are Tete Montoliu (1933), Manuel García (1805), Albert Ferrer (1970), José Sacristán (1937), Luis Royo (1954), and Julio Medem (1958).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Spain

Among religious figures born in Spain, Pedro Páez ranks 93. Before him are Pacian (310), Joaquina Vedruna de Mas (1783), Josep Maria Mauri (1941), Francis Solanus (1549), Ricardo Blázquez (1942), and Diego Gelmírez (1069). After him are Carlos Amigo Vallejo (1934), Celestino Aós Braco (1945), Francisco Coll Guitart (1812), Juan de Palafox y Mendoza (1600), Pedro Pardo de Cela (1420), and Arcadio Larraona Saralegui (1887).

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