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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Pope Pius XI

1857 - 1939

Pope Pius XI

Pope Pius XI (Italian: Pio XI), born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti (Italian: [amˈbrɔ:dʒo daˈmja:no aˈkille ˈratti]; 31 May 1857 – 10 February 1939), was the Bishop of Rome and supreme pontiff of the Catholic Church from 6 February 1922 to 10 February 1939. He also became the first sovereign of the Vatican City State upon its creation as an independent state on 11 February 1929. He remained head of the Catholic Church until his death in February 1939. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pope Pius XI has received more than 1,756,718 page views. His biography is available in 94 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 88 in 2019). Pope Pius XI is the 66th most popular religious figure (down from 60th in 2019), the 69th most popular biography from Italy (up from 74th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Italian Religious Figure.

Pope Pius XI is most famous for his encyclical of 1931, "Quadragesimo Anno," which called for a new social order based on the principle of solidarity.

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1.8M
Page Views (PV)
78.59
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
94
Languages Editions (L)
13.46
Effective Languages (L*)
3.21
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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Pope Pius XI ranks 66 out of 2,238. Before him are Benedict of Nursia, Abu Hanifa, Hildegard of Bingen, Pope Alexander VI, Thomas the Apostle, and Daniel. After him are Saint Valentine, John Chrysostom, Pope Sylvester I, Muhammad al-Bukhari, Pope Gregory XIII, and Pope Urban II.

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Pope Pius XI
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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Pope Pius XI ranks 1. After him are Ferdinand de Saussure, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, Heinrich Hertz, Clara Zetkin, Joseph Conrad, Edward Elgar, Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, Henrik Pontoppidan, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, and William Howard Taft. Among people deceased in 1939, Pope Pius XI ranks 2. Before him is Sigmund Freud. After him are Alphonse Mucha, Howard Carter, James Naismith, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Joseph Roth, W. B. Yeats, Eugen Bleuler, Werner von Fritsch, Edward Sapir, and Anton Makarenko.

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Pope Pius XI
1857 - 1939
HPI: 78.59
Rank: 1
Ferdinand de Saussure
1857 - 1913
HPI: 78.58
Rank: 2
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
1857 - 1941
HPI: 77.50
Rank: 3
Heinrich Hertz
1857 - 1894
HPI: 77.14
Rank: 4
Clara Zetkin
1857 - 1933
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 5
Joseph Conrad
1857 - 1924
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 6
Edward Elgar
1857 - 1934
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 7
Karl Adolph Gjellerup
1857 - 1919
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 8
Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom
1857 - 1944
HPI: 72.67
Rank: 9
Henrik Pontoppidan
1857 - 1943
HPI: 70.82
Rank: 10
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
1857 - 1935
HPI: 70.34
Rank: 11
William Howard Taft
1857 - 1930
HPI: 70.30
Rank: 12