RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Pope John XXIII

1881 - 1963

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Pope John XXIII (Latin: Ioannes XXIII; Italian: Giovanni XXIII [dʒoˈvanni ventitreˈɛːzimo]; né Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, Italian: [ˈandʒelo dʒuˈzɛppe roŋˈkalli]; 25 November 1881 – 3 June 1963) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 28 October 1958 until his death in June 1963. Roncalli was among 13 children born to Marianna Mazzola and Giovanni Battista Roncalli in a family of sharecroppers who lived in Sotto il Monte, a village in the province of Bergamo, Lombardy. He was ordained to the priesthood on 10 August 1904 and served in a number of posts, as nuncio in France and a delegate to Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pope John XXIII has received more than 3,814,763 page views. His biography is available in 110 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 107 in 2019). Pope John XXIII is the 51st most popular religious figure (down from 43rd in 2019), the 49th most popular biography from Italy (down from 43rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Italian Religious Figure.

Pope John XXIII is most famous for his work in the Second Vatican Council.

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  • 3.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 79.52

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 110

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Pope John XXIII ranks 51 out of 3,187. Before him are Isaiah, Saul, Joshua, Pope Pius IX, Pope Benedict XVI, and Samuel. After him are Catherine of Alexandria, Pope Leo XIII, Pope Clement VII, Pope Gregory I, Ignatius of Loyola, and James, son of Zebedee.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Pope John XXIII ranks 5. Before him are Pablo Picasso, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Alexander Fleming, and Stefan Zweig. After him are Béla Bartók, Asta Nielsen, Lu Xun, Anna Pavlova, Alexander Kerensky, Hans Kelsen, and Enver Pasha. Among people deceased in 1963, Pope John XXIII ranks 4. Before him are John F. Kennedy, Édith Piaf, and Lee Harvey Oswald. After him are Robert Frost, Jean Cocteau, Georges Braque, Aldous Huxley, Robert Schuman, Ngo Dinh Diem, Tristan Tzara, and C. S. Lewis.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Pope John XXIII ranks 49 out of 5,161. Before him are Donatello (1386), Florence Nightingale (1820), Empedocles (-490), Gioachino Rossini (1792), Evangelista Torricelli (1608), and Pope Pius IX (1792). After him are Fibonacci (1170), Pope Leo XIII (1810), Giacomo Casanova (1725), Pope Clement VII (1478), Pope Gregory I (540), and Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Italy

Among religious figures born in Italy, Pope John XXIII ranks 4. Before him are Francis of Assisi (1182), Pope John Paul I (1912), and Pope Pius IX (1792). After him are Pope Leo XIII (1810), Pope Clement VII (1478), Pope Gregory I (540), Saint Lucy (283), Pope Pius XII (1876), Saint Valentine (226), Pope Innocent VII (1339), and Pope Julius II (1443).

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