RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Pope Pius IX

1792 - 1878

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Pope Pius IX (Italian: Pio IX; né Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti; 13 May 1792 – 7 February 1878) was head of the Catholic Church from 1846 to 1878. His reign of nearly 32 years is the longest of any pope in history. He was notable for convoking the First Vatican Council in 1868 and for permanently losing control of the Papal States in 1870 to the Kingdom of Italy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pope Pius IX has received more than 2,546,144 page views. His biography is available in 92 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 88 in 2019). Pope Pius IX is the 48th most popular religious figure (up from 72nd in 2019), the 48th most popular biography from Italy (up from 81st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Italian Religious Figure.

Pope Pius IX is most famous for his 1854 declaration of the Immaculate Conception, which declared that Mary was conceived without sin.

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  • 79.55

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 92

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Pope Pius IX ranks 48 out of 3,187. Before him are John the Apostle, Muhammad al-Bukhari, Pope Alexander VI, Isaiah, Saul, and Joshua. After him are Pope Benedict XVI, Samuel, Pope John XXIII, Catherine of Alexandria, Pope Leo XIII, and Pope Clement VII.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1792, Pope Pius IX ranks 2. Before him is Gioachino Rossini. After him are Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, William II of the Netherlands, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Nikolai Lobachevsky, John Herschel, Karl Ernst von Baer, Caroline Augusta of Bavaria, Alexander Ypsilantis, Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, and William, Duke of Nassau. Among people deceased in 1878, Pope Pius IX ranks 1. After him are Victor Emmanuel II of Italy, Archduke Franz Karl of Austria, Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, Claude Bernard, Joseph Henry, Julius von Mayer, Charles-François Daubigny, Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies, George V of Hanover, Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora, and Mirza Fatali Akhundov.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Pope Pius IX ranks 48 out of 5,161. Before him are Tiberius (-42), Donatello (1386), Florence Nightingale (1820), Empedocles (-490), Gioachino Rossini (1792), and Evangelista Torricelli (1608). After him are Pope John XXIII (1881), Fibonacci (1170), Pope Leo XIII (1810), Giacomo Casanova (1725), Pope Clement VII (1478), and Pope Gregory I (540).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Italy

Among religious figures born in Italy, Pope Pius IX ranks 3. Before him are Francis of Assisi (1182), and Pope John Paul I (1912). After him are Pope John XXIII (1881), 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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