RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Pope Leo XII

1760 - 1829

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Pope Leo XII (Italian: Leone XII born Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiorre Girolamo Nicola della Genga; 2 August 1760 – 10 February 1829) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 28 September 1823 to his death in February 1829. Leo XII was in ill health from the time of his election to the papacy to his death less than 6 years later, though he was noted for enduring pain well. He was a deeply conservative ruler, who enforced many controversial laws, including one forbidding Jews to own property. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pope Leo XII has received more than 481,842 page views. His biography is available in 79 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 77 in 2019). Pope Leo XII is the 151st most popular religious figure (down from 133rd in 2019), the 171st most popular biography from Italy (down from 150th in 2019) and the 51st most popular Italian Religious Figure.

Pope Leo XII is most famous for his encyclical Quod Apostolici Muneris, in which he condemned socialism and communism.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 79

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 13.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.87

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Pope Leo XII ranks 151 out of 3,187. Before him are Pope Lucius I, Pope Innocent VIII, Pope John XXII, Isidore of Seville, Pope Sylvester III, and Pope Gregory XV. After him are Pope Benedict XIII, Pope Pius IV, Pope Clement XII, Catherine of Siena, Pope Innocent X, and Rabia of Basra.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1760, Pope Leo XII ranks 2. Before him is Hokusai. After him are Henri de Saint-Simon, Luigi Cherubini, Camille Desmoulins, Jiaqing Emperor, Alexandre de Beauharnais, François-Noël Babeuf, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, Johan Gadolin, August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, and Jan Ladislav Dussek. Among people deceased in 1829, Pope Leo XII ranks 4. Before him are Niels Henrik Abel, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, and John Jay. After him are Thomas Young, Humphry Davy, Paul Barras, Maria Anna Mozart, Friedrich Schlegel, François-Joseph Gossec, Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, and Alexander Griboyedov.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Pope Leo XII ranks 171 out of 5,161. Before him are Carlo Collodi (1826), Pope Lucius I (200), Pope Innocent VIII (1432), Pope Sylvester III (1000), Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463), and Pope Gregory XV (1554). After him are Giorgione (1478), Artemisia Gentileschi (1593), Nerva (30), Pope Benedict XIII (1649), Pope Pius IV (1499), and Pope Clement XII (1652).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Italy

Among religious figures born in Italy, Pope Leo XII ranks 51. Before him are Pope Pius VII (1742), Pope Paul V (1552), Pope Lucius I (200), Pope Innocent VIII (1432), Pope Sylvester III (1000), and Pope Gregory XV (1554). After him are Pope Benedict XIII (1649), Pope Pius IV (1499), Pope Clement XII (1652), Catherine of Siena (1347), Pope Innocent X (1574), and Pope Sixtus V (1520).

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