RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Pope Leo XIII

1810 - 1903

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Pope Leo XIII (Italian: Leone XIII; né Gioacchino Vincenzo Raffaele Luigi Pecci; 2 March 1810 – 20 July 1903) was head of the Catholic Church from 20 February 1878 until his death in July 1903. Living until the age of 93, he was the oldest pope whose age can be validated, and had the 4th longest reign of any pope, behind those of Peter the Apostle, Pius IX and John Paul II. He is well known for his intellectualism and his attempts to define the position of the Catholic Church with regard to modern thinking. In his famous 1891 encyclical Rerum novarum, Pope Leo outlined the rights of workers to a fair wage, safe working conditions, and the formation of trade unions, while affirming the rights to property and free enterprise, opposing both socialism and laissez-faire capitalism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pope Leo XIII has received more than 2,371,189 page views. His biography is available in 88 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 84 in 2019). Pope Leo XIII is the 53rd most popular religious figure (up from 87th in 2019), the 51st most popular biography from Italy (up from 100th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Italian Religious Figure.

Pope Leo XIII is most famous for his 1891 encyclical, Rerum Novarum, which was the first papal document to address the plight of the working class.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Pope Leo XIII ranks 53 out of 3,187. Before him are Joshua, Pope Pius IX, Pope Benedict XVI, Samuel, Pope John XXIII, and Catherine of Alexandria. After him are Pope Clement VII, Pope Gregory I, Ignatius of Loyola, James, son of Zebedee, Saint Lucy, and Luke the Evangelist.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Pope Leo XIII ranks 3. Before him are Frédéric Chopin, and Robert Schumann. After him are Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, P. T. Barnum, Theodor Schwann, Alfred de Musset, Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies, Éliphas Lévi, Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans, and Ernst Kummer. Among people deceased in 1903, Pope Leo XIII ranks 2. Before him is Paul Gauguin. After him are Herbert Spencer, Theodor Mommsen, Camille Pissarro, Alois Hitler, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Alexander I of Serbia, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Otto Weininger, and Hugo Wolf.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Pope Leo XIII ranks 51 out of 5,161. Before him are Empedocles (-490), Gioachino Rossini (1792), Evangelista Torricelli (1608), Pope Pius IX (1792), Pope John XXIII (1881), and Fibonacci (1170). After him are Giacomo Casanova (1725), Pope Clement VII (1478), Pope Gregory I (540), Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598), Lucretius (-94), and Enrico Fermi (1901).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Italy

Among religious figures born in Italy, Pope Leo XIII ranks 5. Before him are Francis of Assisi (1182), Pope John Paul I (1912), Pope Pius IX (1792), and Pope John XXIII (1881). After him are 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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